Immigration lawyers in Illinois Steve Bogdanov to Xavier Borjas

Firm: SB Law Group, LLC

3710 Commercial Ave. , Northbrook , Illinois 60062

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Fleming & Fleming, Ltd., P.C.

100 S Lincoln Ave , O Fallon , Illinois 62269

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Personal Injury, Government, Immigration

Graduated from Florida State University (B.A.), received his J.D. (Juris Doctorate) from Stetson University College of Law, and obtained his Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Toulouse. He is a member of the following organizations:          -The Illinois Bar          -American Bar Association          -St. Clair County Bar Association          -Madison County Bar Association

Firm: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

151 North Franklin Street , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Immigration

William Schiller represents individuals, corporate, and university clients in a broad array of immigration matters. Many of the clients he represents are professors, researchers, scientists and post-doctoral scholars who apply for permanent residence as outstanding researchers and professors, and via national interest waiver and extraordinary ability immigration petitions. In addition, Wiliam's law practice involves the representation of highly-skilled professionals and individuals in a wide range of non-immigrant visa matters, as well as family-based immigration involving applications for permanent residence in the United States, asylum matters, removal, naturalization, consular processing, and other complex areas of immigration law.. As universities, medical centers, international students, faculty and postdoctoral scholars face increasingly complex and evolving immigration policies, William also leads Hinshaw’s Higher Education Immigration Team.. William lectures and publishes extensively on immigration law, and his client base is national and worldwide. He is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches a senior-level course on international human rights and U.S. refugee law.

Firm: Kempster, Corcoran, Quiceno and Lenz-Calvo, Ltd.

332 S Michigan Ave Ste 1428 , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: ImmigrationJD, LLC

10003 S Roberts Rd , Palos Hills , Illinois 60465

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Immigration Attorneys, LLP

203 N La Salle St Ste 1550 , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Immigration

I concentrate my practice on family-based immigration law, including removal defense before the U.S. Immigration Courts and the Immigration Custom and Enforcement’s Detention and Removal Office.. I sppecialize in Applications for Waivers of Inadmissibility, Asylum, Petitions for Battered Spouses under the Violence Against Women Act, Applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Petitions for U Visa Classification, prosecutorial discretion requests, etc.. I have also completed an internship with the U.S. Department of Justice at the Chicago Immigration Court.  I worked closely with immigration judges and judicial law clerks researching legal issues in pending actions involving asylum, deportation, withholding and cancellation of removal, voluntary departure, CAT, etc.  I regularly prepared responses to motions and briefs in support of denials/grants for various immigration applications.

Firm: Us Law Group, LLC

1247 Milwaukee Ave Ste 302 , Glenview , Illinois 60025

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Tapia-Ruano & Gunn, P.C.

53 W Jackson Blvd Ste 852 , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Immigration

Tristan Gunn is a practicing attorney and partner at the law office of TAPIA-RUANO & GUNN, PC. (TRGPC). He focuses his practice in the area of removal defense before the Chicago Immigration Court and Family-Based immigration. His practice includes applications for permanent residency in the US and through consular processing abroad. His practice also includes waivers of inadmissibility, U visas, applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Naturalization.. Mr. Gunn has been named by Illinois Super Lawyers as a Rising Star for 2018. He has also been recognized as an “Emerging Lawyer” by the Leading Lawyer’s Network in 2017 and 2018. Mr. Gunn was also named a “Top Lawyer” by Chicago Lawyer Magazine in 2017.. Tristan attended law school at Depaul University College of Law and graduated with his Juris Doctorate in 2011. Tristan became a member of the Illinois Bar in 2012 and has been practicing immigration law ever since. Tristan is bilingual in English and Spanish. Tristan is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has been an active particiapnt in the Chicago Chapter.. At TRGPC virtually all areas of immigration law are practiced with few exceptions. Attorneys primarily provide services relating to applications for Legal Permanent Residency through Adjustment of Status and Consular Processsing, Naturalization, U Visas, VAWAs, preparing inadmissibility waivers, DACA applications, non-immigrant visas, defense in removal proceedings, and asylum. Attorneys also handle a variety of employment based applicaitons.

Firm: Chokshi Filippone Law LLC

401 E. Prospect Avenue , Mount Prospect , Illinois 60056

Practice Areas: Immigration

Trisha Chokshi is a founding partner of Chokshi Filippone Law LLC, with offices in Mount Prospect and Chicago. She concentrates her practice in the area of immigration law, including family based residency petitions (“green card” services), citizenship/naturalization, and humanitarian programs (DACA, asylum, U Visas, VAWA petitions). Ms. Chokshi also handles residential real estate matters and estate planning.

Firm: Gambacorta Law

5250 N. Old Orchard Road , Skokie , Illinois 60077

Practice Areas: Immigration

Mr. Gambacorta was born, March 12, 1971 in Evanston, Illinois, not too far from Northwestern University flagship campus.  He attended high school at Loyola Academy, in Wilmette, Illinois, attended college at the University of Arizona with a major in history and a split minor in political science/economics, went on to graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a major in secondary education, and finally attended The Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. for his legal education.. During law school, Mr. Gambacorta worked for the U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Maritime and International Law drafting appeals concerning disciplinary action against merchant mariners, researched the daily enforcement of federal law in the areas of drug interdiction, immigration, marine environmental protection, marine safety, living marine resource law, and general federal laws applicable at sea and performed legal research involving the amount of evidence necessary to rebut a presumption of negligence in maritime law.  He also drafted a detailed legal memo useful in addressing the issue whenever it arises in a U.S. Coast Guard administrative proceeding.. Mr. Gambacorta also worked as a Legal Specialist for International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Office of International Labor Affairs.  At the State Department, Mr. Gambacorta conducted domestic and United Nations legislative research of statutory mandates and assisted in the formulation of statutory construction guidelines to guide upper management on the eligibility criteria used in U.S. statutes to mandate conditioning of aid and trade benefits, outlined relevant legal issues and approaches in solving problems related to maritime port security and negotiated with representatives of the International Labor Organization the effect of revised maritime treaties on workers' legal rights.  Mr. Gambacorta further researched international maritime law and domestic immigration law to inform U.S. Government participation in negotiations to revise maritime treaties to expedite use of crews by shipping industry insofar as may be consistent with the requirements of U.S. immigration law, drafted response letters to Congressional inquiries pertaining to international labor human rights legal issues and instructed non-legal personnel in legislative historical research.  In 2002, he received the U.S. Department of State award for professional contributions to U.S. efforts to promote respect for rule of law and human rights worldwide.. After graduation from law school, Mr. Gambacorta came back to Illinois and successfully passed the Illinois bar exam.  Mr. Gambacorta did not practice immigration law immediately after he became a licensed attorney.  Rather, he worked at a commercial law firm, Shelist and Schwartz, LLP where he evaluated, managed, and litigated matters pertaining to class action and commercial litigation.  Caseload commonly involved consumer fraud and deceptive practices; fraudulent schemes involving business/corporate, healthcare, medical billing, insurance, and bank/trustee/lender; whistleblower (Qui Tam) litigation; and execution on large judgments and awards.  Mr. Gambacorta researched and drafted, legal briefs, motions for summary judgments, and motions for bad faith and sanctions, as well as responses to affirmative defenses, motions to dismiss, and motions for summary judgments.  He prepared Disclosure Statements in Qui Tam matters involving criminal schemes resulting in kickbacks and double-billing for Medicare/Medicaid services and interviewed clients in connection with drafting Qui Tam Disclosure Statements.. After Shelist and Schwartz, LLP, Mr. Gambacorta worked for another commercial law firm where he represented clients in state courts in a wide range of commercial disputes including: contract; fiduciaries; negligence; employment contracts; slander and defamation; post-judgment collection via supplementary proceedings; preliminary and permanent injunctive relief; and representation of union members engaged in disciplinary misconduct. He also researched and drafted substantive and procedural issues pertaining to pleadings, motions, discovery requests, citations to discover assets on third parties, and legal memoranda, including trial briefs.  He has also has extensive written discovery, deposition, and motion practice experience, including appearances before arbitrators in mandatory arbitration proceedings.. In 2006, Mr. Gambacorta decided to go back to the area of law where his heart is, immigration and nationality law.  He has successfully defended many foreign nationals in immigration court and who were subject to deportation as a result of either criminal and/or immigration violations.  Mr. Gambacorta additionally has successfully handles waiver cases to enable those foreign nationals who are forever barred from coming to the United States to reunite with their families here.. Mr. Gambacorta spends considerable amount of time in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam) where he advises clients on consular processing as well as a host of other immigration legal issues.  He is licensed in Arizona and Illinois and when not practicing law spends family time with his spouse and 7 year old daughter.  Mr. Gambacorta enjoys reading, traveling, running, cooking, learning about different cultures and languages and walking through airports and train stations.

Firm: Law Offices of Susan Fortino Brown

53 W Jackson Blvd Ste 1160 , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration

Susan Fortino-Brown has practiced in the field of Immigration Law exclusively since 1987.  Ms. Fortino-Brown has served in several leadership positions with the National American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”), including the Chair of the AILA Field Operations Liaison Committee to the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”). She has also served on the following National AILA committees: Nebraska Service Center (“NSC”) Liaison Committee, USCIS Benefits Committee, National Benefits Center (“NBC”) Liaison, AILA National Ethics Committee, and the AILA Board of Governors, while simultaneously serving as Chapter Chair of the Chicago AILA chapter.  In addition, Ms. Fortino-Brown acted as a member of the American Immigration Council (“AIC”) Board of Trustees, and she is presently the Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the National Immigration Justice Center (“NIJC”) of Heartland Alliance in Chicago.  Ms. Fortino-Brown is currently  on the Chicago AILA District Director Liaison committee. She has been a contributing author for past AILA Immigration & Nationality Law Handbooks, and speaks frequently at regional and national Immigration Law conferences. Her clients are diverse within the immigration field, and include individuals and owners of businesses, a nationally prominent University and its faculty members, professional baseball players, competitive figure skaters, fashion designers, as well as individuals in family-based immigration, naturalization, asylum and deportation/removal matters.  Ms. Fortino-Brown hosted a weekly Spanish radio program on Immigration Law and has appeared on national and local television and radio as an expert on the topic.  She has been recognized by the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, receiving the “Women with Vision" award. Ms. Fortino-Brown has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Lawyer Magazine. Ms. Fortino-Brown speaks Italian and is fluent in Spanish.

Firm: The Law Office of Thomas Keith Mirabile

1745 S. Naperville Road , Wheaton , Illinois 60189

Practice Areas: Immigration

Raised on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Tom has been practising law for 45 years .His law office is located in Wheaton, Illinois.. His firm is one of the oldest firms practising Immigration law in DuPage County and enjoys the highest ratings of any Immigration firm in DuPage County,. He is ranked High to Highest by Martindale Hubbell an International lawyer ranking system for ranking lawyers and a five star ( Highest ranking) rating on Google and a ten star ranking ( highest ranking) on  Avvo for legal services. His firm also practices in the area of Wills and Trusts and Estate Planning, Health Law and Bankruptcy. Tom served as out of house fraud counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance Company ( FDIC )in litigation regarding bankruptcy and banking fraud.. Tom has served as a Professor at Oklahoma City University School of Law and the Graduate School of Business.  He is also served as an adjunct professor at The College of Law at DePaul University in Chicago. Tom also served on the Law faculty of the University of Liverpool School of Law in England in its Online Global International law Programme. He also is currently a dissertation supervisor and the Universities of Salford and Cumbria in the U.K.. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of DePaul University Law School for The Health Law Institute and Graduate Law School Programs and the Board of the Graduate School in Health-related programs at University of St Francis. Tom has taught numerous times in China and Singapore and has been approved as a candidate  Fulbright scholar. Tom was named a Senior Fellow of the Western Pacific Institute in 1993 as a result of his work and publications on Asian affairs. For the last for years he has been asked to give seminars at the Dalian Medical School in Dalian, PRC on the administration of Public Health Programs.. He has published extensively; His most recent publication can be found in the Journal of International Law of Michigan State University on Aids, Africa and Access to Medicines. Tom was inducted in Who’s Who in America in 2005 . He is also listed in Who’s Who in American Law. Tom is the recipient of a B.A from Northern Illinois University, an M.A from Northeastern Illinois University, a  Juris Doctor for Oklahoma City University and an LL.M in Health Law  from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago and a Graduate Certificate of Advanced Study in Higher Education e- learning from the University of St. Francis, Joliet Illinois and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Gerontology from Webster University,St Louis

Firm: Dunn Law Firm, LLP

1001 North Main Street, Suite A , Bloomington , Illinois 61701

Practice Areas: Civil , Contracts, Employment & Labor , Immigration & Naturalization , Technology and Science, Immigration

Thomas Arkell is a leading immigration attorney and he represents clients throughout the United States. His personalized approach is meticulous and his results reflect it. He has extensive expertise in filing National Interest Waiver (NIW) petitions for college and university faculty, researchers, qualified PhD students and scientists in a wide variety of disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology, aerospace, nanotechnology, medicine, engineering, materials science, sociology, aerospace and genetics. Mr. Arkell’s vast knowledge of the NIW requirements and highly technical process allows him to answer client questions immediately and decisively so the NIW petition can be prepared, filed and approved in an efficient and timely manner.. Mr. Arkell also has extensive experience with EB-5, J-1 waivers, H-1B, P-1, O-1, TN, PERM, I-140, I-485, citizenship and various family based applications. Over the last two decades he has also successfully filed Extraordinary Ability (EB-1A) petitions on behalf of talented scientists, researchers, business executives, entrepreneurs and world-class athletes as well as Outstanding Professor or Researcher (EB-1B) petitions on behalf of his university clients for accomplished faculty members and researchers.. Mr. Arkell was an F-1 international student and then permanent resident before obtaining his U.S. citizenship. His personal experience with the U.S. immigration system helps him understand his clients questions and concerns as they navigate the immigration process together. Mr. Arkell also understands the human element of this process. He respects the importance and urgency felt by his clients to complete the immigration process quickly and successfully so that his clients can concentrate on their field of expertise and not worry about their immigration status in the United States.. Mr. Arkell is the senior partner in the Dunn Law Firm, LLP in Bloomington, Illinois which was founded in 1915. He earned both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of Notre Dame and he has been licensed to practice law for over twenty years. The Arkell Immigration Team, led by Attorney Thomas Arkell, has well over 100 years of combined immigration experience.

Firm: Johnson Theresa V Law Office Of

200 East Chicago Avenue , Westmont , Illinois 60559

Practice Areas: Americans with Disabilities Act, Copyrights, Defamation, Libel and Slander, Discrimination, Entertainment & Sports , Estate Planning, Family , Immigration & Naturalization , Intellectual Property , International & Trade, Mechanics Liens, Patents, Personal Injury, Probate , Trademarks, Immigration

Before I opened my solo law practice, I was a Manager of Intellectual Property for the telecommunications corporate giant, AT&T. During my 21 year career at AT&T, I always dreamed of having my own business.  I had great jobs at AT&T - I was a technical training course developer, an instructor of communications and finally a Manager of Intellectual Property. AT&T gave me the best training available, I traveled around the country, had a lot of autonomy compared to many jobs, and worked with a lot of wonderful people.  As the years passed, I became more and more self-realized. I began to realize that I had great ability to work hard for my company, I was pretty smart, and I also had the drive and know-how to start my own business. I wasn't afraid of hard work. The only profession that ever interested me, other than marriage, motherhood and being a professional dancer, was being a lawyer. I wanted to help people.  I wanted to be free. I always loved words and I loved to analyze things. I liked taking complex information (which AT&T trained me to do) and synthesizing it into some type of cohesive framework. Words are powerful. They can bring peace. They can bring strife. I love what the Bible says in proverbs: "A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh answer stirs up anger." (Proverbs 15:1) and "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver"(Psalm 25:11-13). Thus, I began diligent pursuit of my dream of becoming an international lawyer, negotiating big time complex contracts.. Having had a corporate career with AT&T, I had no real practical legal experience the day I opened my own law office.  I did not know how to do anything practical - not even how to file a lawsuit or a motion in court.  Law school does not teach you how to practice law, only how to research it or learn legal concepts and reasoning. When I finally wound up in a courtroom, I did not even know how to address the Judge or to call a witness. I used my retirement money from AT&T to support myself for the first year or two of law practice.  The day I opened my law firm, I had only one client. It was unnerving at times and certainly exhausting. For all practical purposes, I really was my own law clerk for a couple years because I entered a very different world from corporate America.. Twenty two years later, I have had many great experiences - some horrible, some beautiful, some funny. I have had some precious clients in fascinating careers and wonderful young people who worked for me and who I mentored on to their legal careers. Believe or not, for all the stress of law, there are many touching, fun and comical moments. What could be more touching than helping a foreign national become an American citizen or helping a family stay in their home, or more fun than seeing a client's great invention come to fruition, or funnier than my client who stretched out his arms to his sides and asked our receptionist "Can I copyright me?" ? That's why I love being a lawyer - it is never boring and I'm always meeting interesting people. And there are lots of opportunities to do good.. In the last 22 years, I have successfully practiced in over 10 different areas of law. Having practiced in many areas of the law often gives me a broader and more in depth understanding of a client's complicated legal situation than the understanding of some lawyers who have focused on only one area of law.. I'm here to help you. Just call.

Firm: The Law Offices of Richard Hanus

161 N Clark St , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Immigration

300 S. Wacker Dr. , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Tapia Ruano and Gunn, PC

53 W Jackson Blvd , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Kameli Law

155 N Upper Wacker Dr , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Immigration

Taher Kameli has been a founding partner of the Kameli Law, P.C. (in the past Law Offices of Kameli & Associates, P.C.) since 1996 and focuses on immigration and corporate law. He is also a strong advocate for international business. Mr. Kameli has devoted himself over the course of his career to the problems of our contemporary era of globalization. He is a member of the bar of Washington D.C., New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and Illinois.. Since 2009, Mr. Kameli has been facilitating the creation of sustainable jobs in the United States with over 100 million foreign investments by the designated USCIS Regional Centers, under the EB-5 program. With creative solutions, he remained in the front line of the EB-5 Program to solve complex business immigration issues and engagement with USCIS.

Firm: SwagatUSA

2551 N Clark St , Chicago , Illinois 60614

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Borjas Law Group, LLC

150 South Wacker Drive , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Immigration

Xavier Borjas is an Immigration and Nationality Law attorney in Chicago, IL.