Immigration lawyers in Ohio Georges Zeidan to L. Robert

Firm: Zeidan and Associates, LLC

1170 Old Henderson Rd. , Columbus , Ohio 43220 Zip code: 43220

Practice Areas: Immigration

Mr. Zeidan is the founder of Zeidan and Associates, LLC.  Mr. Zeidan has personally handled a variety of immigration matters, including employment and family-based immigrant cases, nonimmigrant visa cases, adjustment of status, and naturalization.  In addition, he represents clients in deportation/removal proceedings before the Immigration Courts, handles detention and custody cases with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and appears with clients at interviews before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  Mr. Zeidan also represents clients in domestic matters in the Columbus, Ohio, area.

Firm: Okuh & Ibara-Cech Law, LLC

600 Superior Ave E , Cleveland , Ohio 44114 Zip code: 44114

Practice Areas: Immigration

Jessica Larson joined Okuh & Ibara-Cech Law, LLC as Of Counsel in September 2023. Prior to joining Okuh & Ibara-Cech Law, LLC, Jessica was Of Counsel at MJB Immigration and a partner at Benos & Larson, LLC. Jessica has been in private practice, focusing exclusively on immigration law, since 2012.. Jessica’s practice focuses on removal defense, asylum, family-based immigration, naturalization, and related appeals. Jessica has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2020 and was selected as an Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2017 through 2022. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and serves as the chair of the AILA Ohio Chapter’s EOIR Liaison Committee.

Firm: Margaret Wong & Associates LLC

3150 Chester Ave , Cleveland , Ohio 44114 Zip code: 44114

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Harrison-Donaldson, Attorney at Law

4249 Easton Way , Columbus , Ohio 43219 Zip code: 43219

Practice Areas: Immigration

Attorney Kimberly Harrison-Donaldson is the owner of Harrison-Donaldson, Attorney at Law.  Kimberly is licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio, where she has been a member of the bar since November 2003.. Kimberly holds both a Juris Doctorate degree from The Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and a Master of Business Administration degree from OSU's Fisher College of Business with a major in Finance and a minor in Real Estate Finance. As an undergraduate at Valparaiso University, Kimberly earned her Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, majoring in Business Management with minors in International Business and Global Studies, as well as Theology.. Over the years, Kimberly has helped hundreds of individuals obtain employment-based visas, family-based visas, green cards, and citizenship. She has represented clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. Department of Labor, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Board of Immigration Appeals.. Through her expertise with a diverse range of clients and cases, Kimberly has developed a strong reputation in the legal community as an attorney who is extremely competent, highly-specialized, professional, and personable. In 2007, she was named a Rising Star in the field of immigration by Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine. The Daily Reporter newspaper and other publications have quoted Kimberly as an authority on immigration law issues, and she has been a speaker at several immigration law seminars, roundtables, and question and answer sessions.

Firm: Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A.

60 South Park Place , Painesville , Ohio 44077 Zip code: 44077

Practice Areas: Immigration

Kim Alabasi has practiced in the area of Immigration since 2004.  Notably, Mrs. Alabasi speaks Spanish fluently. She earned her undergraduate degree in Spanish/Sociology from Marquette University and later went on to work in Mexico, first as a teacher in Puebla, Mexico for two years, followed by a job with the non-profit group IMIFAP in Mexico City, Mexico.  Mrs. Alabasi worked for 7 years as bilingual clinical social worker with the Hispanic Unit of the Center for Families & Children in Cleveland prior to obtaining her law degree in 2003 and starting Alabasi & Associates in 2006.  In addition, in 2013, she joined Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. as their Of Counsel, Immigration Attorney.. Mrs. Alabasi has been selected by the Consulate General of Mexico in Detroit, Michigan to serve in the Mexican Government’s Program of Legal Assistance to Mexicans.  In addition, Mrs. Alabasi has conducted presentations within the community and assisted several Lake County residents in applying for the new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which assists young immigrants.  Mrs. Alabasi is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and currently serves on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Liaison Committee.. Immigration Services for Businesses. Assist businesses of all sizes with their immigration needs.  Services include the processing of work visas for all types of employees, including seasonal and agricultural workers, H-1b or "specialty occupations", academics, and medical professionals.  Applications can be processed both for workers already in the U.S. who wish to change or adjust their status as well as for those potential applicants outside of the country wishing to consular process.  Employment-based immigration services can be provided for both temporary and permanent employees as well as visas for intra-company transferees and foreign investors and entrepreneurs.  Representation and assistance with I-9 compliance and audits is also provided.. Immigration Services for Individuals. Immigration services that cover the broad spectrum of individual needs, including family-based petitions, applications for permanent residence or "green card" status, applications for citizenship, travel documents, consular processing of non-immigrant visas, such as student, and visitor/business visas.  Assistance with Investor visas, employment-based visas, and intra-company transfers for individual employees.  Services also include the filing of asylum applications, refugee family reunification applications, special immigrant juvenile status applications, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications.  Representation of foreign nationals who are involved in removal proceedings before the immigration court or who wish to appeal their cases to the Board of Immigration Appeals is also provided, in addition to representation of individuals who are detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  Services also include the representation and assistance with interviews required by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for the full range of employment and family-based petitions

Firm: Rosner Partners

The Caxton Building, Suite 601 , Cleveland , Ohio 44115 Zip code: 44115

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Jyotshna Mishra, Attorney At Law LLC.

Po Box 20528 , Cleveland , Ohio 44120 Zip code: 44120

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Sarmiento Immigration Law Firm

5005 Rockside Road , Cleveland , Ohio 44131 Zip code: 44131

Practice Areas: Immigration

JP Sarmiento, Esq. is the founder and managing attorney of the Sarmiento Immigration Law Firm. Mr. Sarmiento is an immigrant himself, having first entered the United States as an F-1 Student when he was 18. He concentrates his practice on all areas of immigration law, from different types of non-immigrant visas, family, marriage, and employment-based green cards, citizenship and naturalization applications, and asylum and deportation defense. He has broad experience representing foreign nationals from 50 different countries and various small and midsized businesses. He has been to over 25 Immigration Courts and Offices all over the country representing clients for immigration hearings and interviews.. Mr. Sarmiento is authorized to practice immigration law in all fifty states and is admitted to the Ohio Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. He obtained his law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law where he received an Excellence in Research and Writing award. Mr. Sarmiento also spent a summer as a judicial extern for Judge Mitchel R. Goldberg at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. He obtained his Bachelors Degree in Economics and Finance, summa cum laude and top of his class at that program, at the Southern New Hampshire University.. In addition to his practice, Mr. Sarmiento maintains an “Immigration Law Blog” designed for foreigners in need of a clear and simplified explanation of immigration law that could help them assess their own situation. He also was a full-time equity trader prior to law school and is still an avid trader on the side.

Firm: Thaxton Law Offices Co., LPA

490 City Park Avenue , Columbus , Ohio 43215 Zip code: 43215

Practice Areas: Immigration

L. Robert Thaxton is the owner of Thaxton Law Offices Co., LPA, a small, boutique Immigration law firm in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Thaxton has practiced exclusively in the field of Immigration Law for more than twelve years, representing clients from all over the world in the areas of employment-based and family-based permanent residency, nonimmigrant visas, and citizenship and naturalization. In 2010, Ohio Super Lawyers magazine named Mr. Thaxton a "Rising Star" in the legal field of Immigration. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Thaxton is an Adjunct Professor of Law at both the Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University and the Capital University Law School, where he teaches the courses on Immigration and Nationality Law. Mr. Thaxton graduated from the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University in 1997 where he served as the Executive Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal.  Prior to obtaining his law degree, he graduated cum laude from Miami University where he received his undergraduate degree in History and Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs.  Following law school, Mr. Thaxton worked at a small litigation firm before joining Bloomfield and Kempf, LLP, where he began his Immigration career in 2001, becoming a partner in 2004. In 2010, Mr. Thaxton ventured out on his own, establishing his own law practice, Thaxton Law Offices Co., LPA. Mr. Thaxton has given many talks and presentations regarding Immigration in and around Ohio, including Continuing Legal Education courses for the Columbus Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association, the Ohio Department of Health, the Columbus Police Department, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Heidelberg University, the Ohio Public Health Combined Conference, the Ohio State University Symposium on Health Care, and various churches and organizations. Mr. Thaxton is currently a member of the Board of Directors of AIDS Resource Center Ohio, on which he previously served as the Chair of the Board of Directors. Prior to AIDS Resource Center Ohio, Mr. Thaxton served on the Board of Trustees of Columbus AIDS Task Force, where he also served as the Chair, and on the Board of Directors of the Short North Civic Association.

Firm: Herman Legal Group, LLC

815 Superior Ave E Ste 1225 , Cleveland , Ohio 44114 Zip code: 44114

Practice Areas: Immigration

Jathniel Shao is a lawyer in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Manila. Originally from Binondo, the world’s oldest Chinatown, Jath grew up bouncing between Asia and America and speaks Hokkien, Mandarin, and Tagalog fluently. He practices the full spectrum of immigration law, from the humanitarian asylum, refugee, or special immigration petitions to all types of family-based and employment immigration and removal defense. He is a member of the bars of New York, Ohio, and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jath received his BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin, and his JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he was a founding board member of the Asian Law Student Association (ALSA) and the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Ohio (FALA Ohio)

Firm: Lorenzon Law LLC

5005 Rockside Road , Independence , Ohio 44131 Zip code: 44131

Practice Areas: Immigration

Jason T. Lorenzon, Esq., has represented clients in immigration courts across the United States including; New York, Cleveland, Seattle, San Antonio, Newark, Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami-Chrome, Miami, Orlando, Dallas, Memphis, Chicago, Buffalo, and Boston.  He represents all clients with vigilance and within the bounds of the law. He has written many appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) for clients.  He has filed many successful motions to reopen with the Immigration Courts and the BIA.  Clients with final orders of removal or deportation have had their cases successfully reopened.  Mr. Lorenzon regularly negotiates with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and has been successful in acquiring deferred action for clients and persuading ICE to grant stays of deportation where our clients have final orders of deportation, have significant family ties and compelling reasons to remain in the United States.  Mr. Lorenzon’s passion is to help people achieve “the American Dream” and to keep families united. His desire to help others comes from his deep faith and many years serving the Roman Catholic Church as a Director of Music Ministry, prior to his career as a lawyer.  Mr. Lorenzon is an immigrant himself, coming to the United States as a student on an F-1 visa in 1995, and his goal is to help others do the same.  Mr. Lorenzon was a client of this firm and we helped him to successfully obtain his green card and United States’ citizenship in 2006.  While Mr. Lorenzon was a successful church musician and international organ competition award winner when he came to this country, we are thrilled that he decided to use his talents to become a lawyer.  After serving as senior attorney for a major law firm, Mr. Lorenzon decided to establish his own firm dedicated to personlized service to each client.. Mr. Lorenzon is a graduate of the Cleveland State University Marshall College of Law and his  Bar admissions include the State of Ohio, State of Florida, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio, Southern District of Florida and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.  While he attended Cleveland State, he worked full time and was managing editor of the Journal of Law and Health.  Prior to his legal career, he served for many years as Music Director of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Macedonia, Ohio and he is a licensed commercial pilot holding an instrument rating, multi-engine rating and instructor ratings (single, multi-engine and instrument).  Today, he is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, a panel attorney for the Airplane Owner's and Pilot's Association, the American Bar Association, the Akron Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association (AILA) and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Diocese of Cleveland.. When he can, Mr. Lorenzon generously volunteers his services to the community, and was recently was honored for his work in foreclosure defense, when he received the “Volunteer of the Year for the Community Legal Services of Akron Award.” Additionally, in 2010, he was awarded the Community Service Award for Attorneys 40 & Under for District 11 by the Ohio State Bar Foundation and he was named a Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers for the area of immigration for 2011.  He serves on the Aviation Law Committee of the Florida Bar.. Finally, Mr. Lorenzon volunteers his time on the WAKR Radio 1590, Akron, Ohio Ask an Attorney Segment informing the public on issues in immigration law.  The Ohio State Bar Association published an article of Mr. Lorenzon’s Non-Citizens Charged with Criminal Offenses Face Complex Laws, in their Law You Can Use series.  Mr. Lorenzon has recently presented a CLE to the Akron Bar in 2010 called Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity, outlining the recent Supreme Court case Padilla v. Kentucky and speaks regularly to church groups and the general public on immigration law.

Firm: Celebrezze Law, LLC

159 Crocker Park Boulevard. , Westlake , Ohio 44145 Zip code: 44145

Practice Areas: Immigration

Ms. Celebrezze practices in all areas of employment immigration. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law.. Celebrezze Law, LLC is a comprehensive immigration practice.  We routinely assist our clients in navigating both the day-to-day immigration process and developing and implementing a larger strategic planning process for foreign national employees.  While the size and industry of our clients’ needs vary widely, we pride ourselves on providing individualized attention to each individual.

Firm: The Law Firm of Ian Vita, LLC

175 S 3rd. St. , Columbus , Ohio 43215 Zip code: 43215

Practice Areas: Immigration

Awards matter. Publicity matters. Results matter more.. You are unique. So is your matter. Whether this is your first experience with the court system or your third startup, having a plan tailored to your specific needs can mean the difference between mediocrity and excellence, or more importantly, success or failure.. The Law Firm of Ian Vita doesn’t take every matter, but for those that we do, we can guarantee prompt, thoughtful responses and innovative solutions tailored to your every need.

Firm: Aljijakli, Kosseff & Prendergast, LLC

33790 Bainbridge Rd, Suite 209 , Cleveland , Ohio 44139 Zip code: 44139

Practice Areas: Immigration

Heather Drabek Prendergast is a member of Aljijakli, Kosseff & Prendergast, LLC, a boutique immigration law firm with offices in Cleveland, OH and New York, NY. Her practice focuses on: complex removal defense including trials, appeals, and federal court litigation; employment-based immigration for skilled professionals; family-based immigration; asylum; and naturalization. Ms. Prendergast is one of 21 Directors elected to serve on the Board of Governors for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a national association of more than 15,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. From 2015 to 2018, Ms. Prendergast chaired AILA’s National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Liaison Committee where she met with senior ICE leadership in Washington, D.C. to resolve issues faced by immigrants and their legal counsel when dealing with the agency. She regularly speaks about immigration issues at local, regional, and national conferences, and serves on several conference planning committees as well as AILA’s Department of State Liaison Committee. Ms. Prendergast is an Adjunct Professor at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she teaches Immigration & Nationality Law. She is a graduate of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, OH and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, and is admitted to practice in Ohio, New York, the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is an avid equestrian and runner.

15600 Madison Ave. , Lakewood , Ohio 44107 Zip code: 44107

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Matrixpointe Software

30400 Detroit Rd Ste 400 , Westlake , Ohio 44145 Zip code: 44145

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Equity Trust Company

1 Equity Way , Westlake , Ohio 44145 Zip code: 44145

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Robert Brown LLC

1468 West 9th Street , Cleveland , Ohio 44113 Zip code: 44113

Practice Areas: Immigration

Kathryn (Katie) P. Russell received her Juris Doctorate Cum Laude from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and is admitted to practice law in the State of Ohio. Katie graduated from John Carroll University Magna Cum Laude with a double major in History: Latin American Studies Concentration and Spanish. She is fluent in Spanish and has studied at the Universidad Centroamericana with the Casa de la Solidaridad Program in El Salvador and at the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. Prior to pursuing her legal career, Katie served as a Jesuit Volunteer at YMCA International Services in Houston, Texas while specializing in Central American Victim of Human Trafficking and refugee resettlement cases. Katie has been with Robert Brown, LLC since 2009 and is experienced in family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, removal defense, and citizenship

Firm: Immigration Attorney at International Institute of Akron

20 Olive St , Akron , Ohio 44303 Zip code: 44303

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: The Shin Law Firm, LLC

4200 Regent St Ste 200 , Columbus , Ohio 43219 Zip code: 43219

Practice Areas: Immigration