Immigration lawyers in District of Columbia Mary E to Philip Hagan

Firm: Ford Harrison, LLP

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

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Immigration

1555 Connecticut Avenue, NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

LEGAL EXPERIENCE. Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill has had her own practice since 2008, and is also Of Counsel to THE HAYNES IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM in Washington, D.C. Prior to starting her own practice, Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill was an Associate Attorney at Braverman & Lin, P.C. in Arlington, Virginia, from 2003 to 2008.. Before becoming an immigration practitioner, Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill’s focus was on Human Rights and Humanitarian law. She served as Director of the Legal Department at the Center for the Prevention of Genocide, in Rosslyn, Virginia from 2002 to 2003, where she supervised research and writing of legal sections in Human Rights Reports, published by the Center.. During 2000 - 2002, Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill was an Associate Attorney with the Law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She participated in complex litigation of international and domestic cases, including Doe v. Karadzic (S.D.N.Y.), in which the firm was co-counsel, representing 23 Muslim Plaintiffs who had been detained in Bosnian Concentration Camps in the 1990s. The Plaintiffs were granted a Verdict of Compensatory and Punitive Damages in the amount of $4.5 Billion. She also assisted in Doe v. Unocal (9th Cir), a case in which Burmese nationals sued in a U.S. Federal District Court that ruled that corporations and their executives can be held liable under the Alien Tort Claims Act for violations of international human rights norms in foreign countries, and that U.S. courts have the authority to adjudicate such claims. However, the District Court dismissed the case, holding that Unocal could only be held liable if it wanted the Burmese military to commit the alleged abuses, which it held that the Plaintiffs had not shown. On Appeal, before an eleven-judge en banc panel, the Ninth Circuit reversed the District Court’s dismissal, and decided to rehear the appeal. The case eventually settled, in 2004. Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill also participated litigation of other Class actions, including Miller v. Pep Boys, Inc. Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, PA.. Prior thereto, Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill worked as Protocol Liaison Officer at the Embassy of Egypt, in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and 2000. She was Responsible for Communications with the U.S. Department of State, concerning Diplomatic Visas, Customs Clearances, Tax Exemptions; Drafting of Diplomatic Notes for communications with other Governments and Embassies, regarding Diplomatic Relations and Security Matters.. Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill was a Fellow with the Center for Justice & International Law (CEJIL) in Washington, D.C. from 1996 to 1998. Her main focus during the fellowship was to research and prepare a case that had previously been declared inadmissible by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The complaint charged that the Canadian government was in violation of international human rights laws by failing to provide redress for victims of grave human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. Specifically, the case concerned a Concentration Camp guard who was in charge of shipping Jews to Auschwitz during WWII, but who had been acquitted in war crimes prosecutions in Canada. CEJIL assisted a group of Canadian Jews in the case, which was declared admissible by the IACHR upon re-submission. The IACHR did not make a final ruling on the case, but negotiated a partial settlement. During the fellowship, Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill was also one of the main coordinators of a conference in DC between CEJIL and Members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.. Nadia did her clerkship in Sweden, in Haparanda and Boden District Courts, 1989 to1991. She served in a Magistrate capacity, adjudicating Misdemeanor Criminal offences, Torts; Bankruptcy matters Adoptions; Uncontested Divorces; Estate Taxation; Contract Disputes, and was eventually given Expanded Competence in Bankruptcy and Damages proceedings.. EDUCATION. Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill received her J.D. from the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1988, and an LLM Degree in International Law from the American University, Washington College of Law in 1996. During her LLM program, Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill was a Dean’s Fellow with Professor Robert K. Goldman. As a Dean’s Fellow, she researched and assisted in developing principles for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons, with Professor Goldman, in conjunction with the United Nations, among others. She also served as Inter-American Systems Editor (1994-1996) on The Human Rights Brief, a Newsletter published by the Washington College of Law.. Ms. Ezzelarab-Gill did an Internship at the Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, DC from 1996 to1997, where she researched the status of Amnesty Laws and Accountability in International Law, with a focus on the Inter-American system. She also assisted in drafting submission to the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

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: Nelson Madden Black

475 Park Ave S , New York , District of Columbia 20016

Practice Areas: Business, Legal Services, Immigration

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

1101 15th St NW Ste 700 , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration, Corporate & Incorporation, International Law

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: National Immigration Law Center, LLC

2200 Pennslyvania Ave. , Washington , District of Columbia 20037

Practice Areas: Immigration

In my travels around the world, I have been lucky enough to see where the Great Wall starts in China, the majesty of the Taj Mahal in India, the great pyramids in Mexico, salmon swimming upstream in Oregon, ships sailing into Vancouver, the end of the St. Lawrence River and Stonehenge in England.. I have helped clients from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaraga, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Japan, China, Italy, Qatar, Afghanistan, Yemen, Turkey, India, Egypt and Canada. My associates speak Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Ukranian.. In addtion to being a lawyer, I have been a professor for the past ten years at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.. I have worked on projects in China, Mexico, Colombia, Turkey, Italy and India and have spoken at conferences in China and Singapore.. I am currently licensed in the following legal courts: US Supreme Court, US Federal Court of Appeals; Virginia Eastern District Court; United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; International Court of Trade; Commonwealth of Virginia.. I enjoy what I do and am good at it.

Firm: Morris H Deutsch, formerly Deutsch, Killea and Eapen

1420 N St NW , Washington, DC , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration

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: O'Brien & van Stiphout LLC

1501 M Street NW , Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration

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

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

Practice Areas: Immigration

1601 18th Street Nw , Washington , District of Columbia 20009

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Law Office of Miriam Bustamante Riedmiller

1901 L Street Northwest , Washington , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Oden & Dillard

1601 18th St NW , Washington, DC , District of Columbia 20009

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Paul Haar

1150 Connecticut Ave NW , Washington, DC , District of Columbia 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

601 Pennsylvania Ave NW Ste 900 , Washington , District of Columbia 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Maldonado Law Firm, PLLC

1629 K St NW Suite 300 , Washington , District of Columbia 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration