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Firm: Rosenblum Immigration Law, PLLC

6323 Georgia Avenue, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20040

Practice Areas: Immigration

Lilah Rosenblum advises individuals and organizations on immigration and nationality law. She helps secure temporary visas, permanent residence, citizenship, asylum, and other immigration benefits for foreign nationals, and employers and family members seeking to sponsor foreign nationals. She represents clients in filings before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), the U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Department of State; in adjustment of status and naturalization interviews before USCIS; and in other immigration proceedings.. Lilah is fluent in Spanish and culturally competent as she has lived, worked, and studied extensively throughout Latin America. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the District of Columbia Bar Association, and the Maryland Bar Association. She has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the AILA DC/USCIS Washington, DC and Baltimore Liaison Committees and has been an active member of the AILA DC Pro Bono Committee (Citizenship Day Sub-Committee). She has published articles, taught courses, and presented on panels on employment-based immigration and other topics.

Firm: Deutsch, Killea and Eapen

1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20009

Practice Areas: Immigration

Our immigration lawyers, located in Washington, DC, have more than 60 collective years of experience practicing immigration and nationality law.  We aggressively represent companies in I-9 compliance and in obtaining work authorization for their foreign employees.  We also enjoy working with individual clients, with their myriad life situations, routine or difficult, in need of immigration services.. We are known for being good communicators.  Our clients never have problems getting through to us in a reasonable time, to obtain answers to their questions or just their case status.  Clients have rated us highly in terms of our competence, professional demeanor and the level of care we provide.. Our approach is to schedule an initial consultation, for a minimal fee, to analyze the case, and to determine all available immigration options and possible problems.  We believe in informing clients of all risks and benefits, so they can make informed choices and not just rely on our judgment.  At this stage, we will offer a proposal for the work, detailing all fees and costs, and providing different payment plan options.  Once retained, we work with our clients to prepare and file their applications in the way most likely to succeed.  Most importantly, we do what we say we are going to do.. In the 26 years since Morris Deutsch created the firm, we have helped uncountable people from all walks of life to become permanent residents and later US citizens.  We have helped employers, large and small, with their foreign employees.  We have assisted asylees, refugees, crime victims and abuse victims to remain in the U.S. permanently.  And, we have helped people in trouble to avoid deportation from the U.S.

Firm: Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP

1101 15th Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Bland and Sorkin, P.C.

1915 I Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

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Richard W. Chang is a junior partner at the law firm of Wasserman, Mancini & Chang, an "AV" rated firm that was founded in 1946 and is one of the oldest immigration law firms in the country.  Richard W. Chang received his Juris Doctorate (JD) and his International Law Certificate at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a Bachelors degree in History - East Asian Concentration.  Richard W. Chang is a former board member of the Asian American Action Fund (AAA-Fund), one of the country’s leading APA political action committees.  Richard is also a partner in his entertainment consulting business, K2 Productions, which provids DJ services for the DC Metro Area.  Richard W. Chang is also a contributing author for the Taiwan-AIT article in "The Visa Processing Guide" published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).  Richard W. Chang has been the co-host of the Immigration Law program on World Today Comcast Cable Channel 678 in Montgomery County, Maryland since 1997.  Richard W. Chang’s article titled, “Proper Invalidation Of A Labor Certification By DHS, DOL Or DOS” was published on August 7, 2008 by .  Richard pursues his amateur photography hobby in his spare time.  You can find his work at .

Firm: Bromberg, Kohler Maya & Maschler, PLLC

2011 Pennsylvania Ave. NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: The R.S.M. Law Firm

700 12th Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Military Law, Marriage & Prenuptials, Immigration

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Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

Peter F. Asaad is a Partner in Potomac Law Group's Immigration Practice. The focus of Mr. Asaad’s practice is on employment-based immigration matters to secure nonimmigrant and immigrant status for individuals in various categories.Mr. Asaad has over 18 years of experience representing corporate clients and individuals on all business-related and employment-based nonimmigrant visas including H-1B, L-1, E-1/2, O-1 visas, as well as immigrant visas including EB-1, PERM, EB-2, EB-3, NIW, Adjustment of Status, consular processing, and other related matters.Mr. Asaad has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) “as one of the nation’s leading litigators” in the field of immigration law and by the American Bar Foundation (ABF) as a top lawyer in the field among the “top one-third of one percent” of the lawyers in Washington, DC. He is ranked by AVVO, listed as a top Corporate Immigration Lawyer by Who’s Who, and ranked a top-rated AV lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been recognized among Washingtonian Magazine’s “Top Lawyers” in immigration law since 2011 and listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020-2023: Immigration Law. Mr. Asaad has additional experience in advising individuals with employment and family-based immigration, asylum, deportation, and other immigration matters. Mr. Asaad served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law, where he taught and developed an advanced course on business immigration. Mr. Asaad is the past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), DC Chapter, where he furthered the education needs of overtion lawyers. Prior to holding this position, Mr. Asaad served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Immigration Litigation Committee for several years and served as Chair of the DC Bar Immigration & Human Rights Committee.Partnering with HR professionals and labor and employment law counsel, Mr. Asaad manages the employment eligibility needs of Fortunetions, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions, as well as other large, medium and small companies to develop, day-to-day manage, and effectively streamline immigration and compliance programs.Serving the needs of multinational companies seeking to expand foreign operations into the U.S., Mr. Asaad also focuses on forming subsidiary and affiliate entities and the intra-company transfer visas for executives, managers and essential personnel to lead and support the U.S. entity.Leading the way in the representation of foreign entrepreneurs and start-ups, Mr. Asaad is the architect of the IN2NYC program and former Special Counsel to New York City. On behalf of the Mayor of New York City and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), in partnership with the City University of New York (CUNY) and New York University (NYU), he developed and launched IN2NYC, the first municipal visa program in the nation designed to help international entrepreneurs create jobs in the United States. Serving the needs of immigrant entrepreneurs, start-ups, emerging companies and foreign investors, he works closely with individuals to create a pathway toward eligibility and approval for special H-1B cap exception, O-1A extraordinary ability, E-1/E-2 visas and L-1 visas for expanding foreign operations in the U.S., as well as permanent residence under the National Interest Waiver (NIW) and Extraordinary Ability (EB-1) categories.

Firm: Palma Yanni PC

2141 P Street NW. , Washington , District of Columbia 20037

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Pantz Immigration Law PLLC

800 Connecticut Avenue N.W. , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration

My practice focuses on business immigration law matters with an emphasis on technology startup companies and entrepreneurs setting up operations in the United States. I am advising domestice and international corporation on retaining international talents as well on relocation of corporate executives, managers and key employees to the United States.. I have extensive experience representing domestic and international clients in all types of business nonimmigrant petitions and applications before the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS). I routinely counsel clients’ management teams and human-resource executives on non-immigrant work visas, employment-based immigrant visas, and employment visas based on bi-national treaties executed by the U.S. with respect to the exchange of trade (E-1 Treaty Trader) or investments in a U.S. business (E-2 Treaty Investor). I also advise entrepreneurs and high-tech start-up companies on non-immigrant work visas for foreign key-personnel.

Firm: Law Office of Mohaimina haque

1629 K Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Business, Employment & Labor, General Practice, Immigration

Firm: L Law Firm PLLC

2001 L Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

Passionate and creative business immigration attorney with judicial clerkship experience and training in the entertainment industry. Eager to help talents from all over the world establish their career by obtaining immigration benefits to the United States. Received approvals for clients in diverse backgrounds, such as performing artists, STEM professionals, pilots, and entrepreneurs.

730 24th Street Nw , Washington , District of Columbia 20037

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Maggio Kattar Nahajzer & Alexander PC

1800 Massachusetts Ave NW Ste 300 , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

Meredith Jolie is a Senior Associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Maggio Kattar. She provides strategic counsel to clients on all aspects of business immigration. Her clients range from Fortune 500 corporations to multinational companies to start-ups in a variety of industries such as technology, transportation, engineering, and healthcare. She works with clients to craft plans that ensure mobility of their executives, managers, and specialized knowledge workers. Furthers, she provides skillful and meticulous guidance on all facets of nonimmigrant (or temporary work visas) and immigrant visas (or permanent residency). Meredith has represented clients before the Department of Labor, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Department of State, DHS Asylum Offices, and Federal Immigration Court.. Meredith also has extensive experience successfully representing individual clients in family-based immigration, waivers, asylum, extraordinary ability cases, and complex naturalization matters. Meredith has established herself as a hard-working and thorough attorney that clients can depend on for step-by-step navigation through the ever-changing and highly technical immigration system.. Her passion for immigration law arose out of her volunteer experiences working with children survivors of human trafficking and a genuine desire to help others. Through several non-profit organizations, she continues to provide pro bono legal services for humanitarian relief cases such as asylum and VAWA, advises at Naturalization Workshops, and also tutored students taking citizenship classes.. Meredith volunteers extensively in various roles for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). For the national AILA organization, she was selected to serve as a Member of the AILA Department of Labor (DOL) Liaison Committee (2020 to 2022), and was a speaker for AILA’s “Blanket L Practice: 2020 Update” presentation. For the Washington, D.C. Chapter of AILA, she has served as a Member of the Washington Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Liaison Committee (2021 to 2022); Washington USCIS Liaison Committee (2018 to 2020); Co-Chair of Citizenship Day Committee (2018 to 2020); Member of the DC Bar Liaison Committee (2017 to 2019); Asylum Office Liaison Committee Member (2017 to 2018); and Co-Chair of Dinner Committee (2015 to 2017). Additionally, she received the Pro Bono Service Award in September 2019 and the AILA DC Chapter award for Pro Bono / Outreach Division Person of the Year in 2019. Finally, Meredith was recognized for her work and added to the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America" list.. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, wherein Meredith was awarded the Irene Grace Bunde Speech Award. This prestigious award is given annually to the most persuasive female speaker at the University of Rochester. Meredith obtained her Juris Doctorate from the University at Buffalo, School of Law. She is currently the Co-Chair of the D.C. Alumni Steering Committee for UB Law (2017 to 2019).

Firm: Ford Harrison, LLP

1300 19th Street, N.W. , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Immigration

Firm: Clark Hill PLC

1001 Pennsylvania Ave NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

1946 New Hampshire Ave. , Washington , District of Columbia 20009

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Garfinkel Immigration Law

3025 Daniel LN NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20015

Practice Areas: Immigration

After more than 15 years advocating and fighting for foreign nationals with full-service contracts, Lynn Garfinkel, has restructured her practice to serve more clients. She is now consulting, on an hourly basis, as needed to guide clients that are working on their own cases. Ms. Garfinkel will review forms, discuss and suggest evidence, and provide tips and guidance on immigration cases. She has experience with temporary and permanent visas (green cards), family and work/employment  based petitions, naturalization issues, waivers, asylum, and deportation defense (also called removal proceedings or immigration court). Ms. Garfinkel has also successfully represents foreign national survivors of abuse petitioning for benefits under the Violence Against Women Act clients and to obtain religious, political, and gender-based asylum for nearly a decade. Ms. Garfinkel has also been helping. Finally, Ms. Garfinkel also successfully represents foreign national survivors of abuse petitioning for benefits under the Violence Against Women Act.. For three years, Garfinkel served as Chair of the Asylum Office Liaison Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, DC Chapter. She is also a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars. She previously served as the Vice Chair of the AILA Washington Immigration Court Liaison Committee. Ms. Garfinkel has engaged in volunteer human rights advocacy work for Amnesty International's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. For five years, she served as the Representative to the Special Initiatives Grant Committee.. Previously, Ms. Garfinkel completed her undergraduate studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Having studied abroad in France and South Korea, she self-designed her undergraduate degree in international development. After working at national organizations advocating for low-income families, she earned her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Massachusetts. During law school, she was a teaching assistant and participated in a prisoner's rights and death penalty cert. clinics. As part of her school’s program, she interned at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and the Office of the Federal Public Defender for DC.

Firm: Alight Legal PLLC

1455 Pennsylvania Ave NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

I am a human rights activist turned attorney.. My firm represents people escaping persecution, victims of crime and violence, families trying to reunite or trying to keep their family together, and we also assist businesses and professionals achieve their immigration goals.. I am compassionate with my clients, but aggressive with the law while seeking innovative solutions and pushing boundaries in order to provide more protection and opportunities for my clients.

Ste 920 , Washington , District of Columbia 20015

Practice Areas: Immigration

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Firm: Ishida Immigration Law PLLC

1725 Eye Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration

Saori Ishida is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Ishida Immigration Law PLLC. She exclusively practices immigration and nationality law.Ms. Ishida has extensive experience managing various immigration cases affecting businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, individuals and families. She has successfully handled non-immigrant visa applications for professionals (H-1B, TN, E-3), inter-company transferees (L-1), treaty traders and investors (E-1, E-2), trainees (H-3, J-1), and persons with extraordinary abilities (O-1). Ms. Ishida has represented clients in PERM/Labor Certification process, immigrant visa petitions, and applications for legal permanent resident status ("green card"). She has also handled waivers of J-1 two-year home residence requirement, national interest waivers and removal defense. Ms. Ishida has a track record of taking on and delivering successful outcomes for matters that were previously denied or faced burdensome Request for Evidence (RFE) from the USCIS. Fluent in Japanese, she has helped Japanese clients navigate through the U.S. immigration system by advising on consular processing, regulatory compliance, as well as immigration consequences of corporate reorganization.Before establishing Ishida Immigration Law, she was an associate attorney at Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Chicago, where she provided strategic advice for corporate and individual clients in U.S. immigration matters. Prior to that, Ms. Ishida practiced immigration law at a boutique firm in Washington, D.C.  Ms. Ishida is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.