Immigration lawyers in Texas Julie Blair to Kathryn Karam

Firm: Law Office of Kathryn N. Karam, PC

4888 Loop Central Drive , Houston , Texas 77081 Zip code: 77081

Practice Areas: Immigration

Kathryn N. Karam has over ten years of experience practicing immigration law. She is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Attorney Karam opened her law practice in July 2013 in order to provide high-quality, personalized services on a range of immigration matters. Her office offers services in Spanish and Chinese.. Attorney Karam began her career at Quan, Burdette, and Perez, P.C., which later became FosterQuan LLP, in Houston, Texas. During this time, she handled all types of immigration matters, including family-based immigration matters, naturalization and citizenship issues, employment-based matters, non-immigrant visas, issues involving Customs and Border Protection, and detention and removal cases. She gained a reputation for being diligent, passionate, creative, and a dedicated problem solver. Attorney Karam was later employed with Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Houston, Texas, where she primarily handled business non-immigrant visa matters.. Prior to earning her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, Attorney Karam earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese, from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a Certificate in Chinese Studies from the Johns-Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.. Ms. Karam is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and served as Advocacy Liaison for AILA’s Texas Chapter from 2010-2013. She has volunteered at the Chinese Community Center, the Tahirih Justice Center for Immigrant Women and Girls, and volunteered at citizenship clinics in the Houston area. She also spoke at the AILA Texas Chapter Conference in November 2013 on the topic of Requests for Evidence and Notices of Intent to Deny.

Firm: Law Office of Karla Olivarez, LLC

7272 Wurzbach Rd Ste 1002 , San Antonio , Texas 78240 Zip code: 78240

Practice Areas: Immigration

1005 E. 40th St. , Austin , Texas 78751 Zip code: 78751

Practice Areas: Immigration

Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch practices immigration law because she works with wonderful clients who are experiencing significant and emotional life changes.  Kate enjoys celebrating with her clients when they achieve their immigration goals, such as obtaining citizenship or the right to live and work in the US, and she also has great compassion for how hard and stressful it can be to face losing immigration status or being separated from loved ones.. Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch is a native of Austin, Texas, who found law after working in the technology sector.  Kate yearned for meaning in her work and chose law school hoping to find a way to incorporate service in her career.  While at the University of Texas School of Law, she joined the Immigration Clinic.  Her first assignment as a student attorney was to conduct an intake with a family of Iraqi citizens who were being detained at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in Taylor, Texas, as they sought asylum in the United States after suffering severe persecution in their home country.  Her clients were distraught to be in a prison with their infant daughter who had not been permitted to go outside in days.  At the conclusion of her meeting with the parents, the baby’s desperate mother asked Kate if she would sneak the baby out of the prison.  It was this moment when she decided on a career fighting for justice for immigrants.. Kate Lincoln-goldfinch was the recipient of an Equal Justice Works Fellowship, sponsored by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in 2008. She completed her fellowship at American Gateways (formerly the Political Asylum Project of Austin), a non-profit organization devoted to securing justice for low-income immigrants in the Central Texas area.  Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch fellowship project served the detainees at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center during which she provided representation and rights presentations to the immigrant women and families detained there.  She also served as the pro bono coordinator for American Gateways.. After her fellowship, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch entered private immigration practice.  Her practice encompasses a variety of immigration cases including temporary visas, adjustments of status, naturalization, and consular processing, as well as removal defense, VAWA (Violence Against Women Act), and crime victims’ visas.  Her firm offers high quality legal representation in an accessible and empathetic environment.. In 2010, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch received the Contribution to Minority Community Award from the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association.  Since the unfortunate resurgence of family detention in 2014, Kate has been active in providing and recruiting pro bono representation for the detained women and children at the Karnes Detention Center and she serves on the Advisory Committee for the Karnes Pro Bono Project. She has been engaged as a speaker at various forums in the field of immigration law. She is a fluent Spanish speaker. Her most important accomplishment of all is her family: her precious daughter Nora and her husband Josh.

Firm: Catholic Charities of Central Texas

1625 Rutherford Ln , Austin , Texas 78754 Zip code: 78754

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Texas Civil Rights Project

1017 W Hackberry Ave , Alamo , Texas 78516 Zip code: 78516

Practice Areas: Immigration

800 Dolorosa Ste 300 , San Antonio , Texas 78207 Zip code: 78207

Practice Areas: Immigration

6633 Hwy 290 East , Austin , Texas 78723 Zip code: 78723

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: J. Sparks Law, PLLC

4402 Merle Drive , Austin , Texas 78745 Zip code: 78745

Practice Areas: Immigration

Julie Sparks is a board-certified specialist in immigration and nationality law.  After more than a decade of practice exclusively in the field of immigration law, she has represented immigrants from more than 70 different countries.  She has helped hundreds of individuals and families achieve legal status in the U.S. in cases involving marriage, citizenship, domestic violence, torture, and charges of deportation/removal in immigration court.. A passion for aiding individuals from around the world led Julie to give up a teaching career and pursue a law degree.  The seed of this passion was planted when Julie met a Rwandan refugee in the ’90s through her work in a homeless shelter in Waco, Texas.  Her love for this area of law remains to this day.  Clients and potential clients often tell her that she is the first person to show true concern for their case and the first to help them thoroughly understand the complexities of the legal issues they face.. Julie is a former instructor in immigration law at the Pepperdine School of Law in Malibu, California as well as California State University – Los Angeles.  During her years in California, she also founded and managed a non-profit organization through which she supervised numerous law students in their representation of indigent immigrants seeking asylum and other relief.  Julie has served as a volunteer attorney for many community organizations at dozens of community events.  Prior to the creation of the DACA program, she served as a legal advisor to “Dreamers” in their struggle to pressure the Obama administration to provide relief to undocumented students.  As a volunteer Legal Coordinator for the 2003 Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride, Julie assisted immigrants in joining together in a nationwide protest and call for meaningful immigration reform to protect the rights of undocumented workers in this country.. Julie earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Baylor University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree from the University of Houston Law Center.  There she was a recipient of the University of Houston Law Center's Public Interest Fellowship. She has served as a pro bono attorney for numerous organizations over the years, including The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an agency funded in part by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.  She was the recipient of the 2010 Beacon of Justice Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.. Ms. Sparks is a member of the Texas Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Firm: Law Office of Karla M. Valles

5800 Manor Road , Austin , Texas 78723 Zip code: 78723

Practice Areas: Immigration

2425 West Loop S Ste 200, Pmb 107 , Houston , Texas 77027 Zip code: 77027

Practice Areas: Immigration

, Houston , Texas 77042 Zip code: 77042

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Legal Aid of Northwest Texas

1515 Main St , Dallas , Texas 75201 Zip code: 75201

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Julie A. Blair

3267 Bee Caves Rd Ste 107 , Austin , Texas 78746 Zip code: 78746

Practice Areas: Immigration

, Houston , Texas 77036 Zip code: 77036

Practice Areas: Immigration

9221 LBJ Fwy., Suite 118 , Dallas , Texas 75243 Zip code: 75243

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Law Office of Justin Tullius PLLC

206 E Locust St , San Antonio , Texas 78212 Zip code: 78212

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Gillenwater Law Firm, PLLC

2525 Robinhood St. , Houston , Texas 77005 Zip code: 77005

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Department of Justice

106 S Saint Marys St Ste 600 , San Antonio , Texas 78205 Zip code: 78205

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: The University of Texas School of Law

727 E Dean Keeton St , Austin , Texas 78705 Zip code: 78705

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Reddy & Neumann, P.C.

11000 Richmond Ave. # 600, Houston , Houston , Texas 77042 Zip code: 77042

Practice Areas: Immigration