Immigration lawyers in Texas Jorge Trevino to Khinda Law

Firm: Trevino Law Firm

115 Camaron St Ste 206 , San Antonio , Texas 78205

Practice Areas: Immigration

6633 Hwy 290 East , Austin , Texas 78723

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: FisherBroyles, LLP

100 Congress , Austin , Texas 78701

Practice Areas: Immigration

Kevin Lashus focuses his practice on corporate employment verification compliance and inbound business immigration.  Kevin has experience in providing uniquely tailored advice to assist clients in developing comprehensive employment authorization and immigration-related compliance systems--including full-scale or localized E-Verify implementation protocols.  Given his public-sector background and court-room experience, Kevin is able to prepare clients to minimize exposure during even the most complex regulatory, administrative, and civil litigation.  He is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Firm: Law Offices of Bell & White

700 N. St. Mary's. , San Antonio , Texas 78205

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Law Office of Kathryn N. Karam, PC

4888 Loop Central Drive , Houston , Texas 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.

1005 E. 40th St. , Austin , Texas 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: Law Office of Karla Olivarez, LLC

7272 Wurzbach Rd Ste 1002 , San Antonio , Texas 78240

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Law Office of Karla M. Valles

5800 Manor Road , Austin , Texas 78723

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Pollak PLLC

15305 Dallas Parkway , Addison , Texas 75001

Practice Areas: Civil , Employment & Labor , Immigration & Naturalization , Real Estate , Immigration, Immigration

I lead our Immigration Practice Group.  My education has taken place literally worldwide and from coast to coast.  I obtained my law degree in South Africa and am licensed by the State Bar of California and State Bar of Texas.   As an immigrant myself and the former chair of the immigration practice of the Dallas office of a large international law firm, I understand what a critical and life-changing decision it is moving family or employees to the United States.   I focus on both family and corporate based immigration representing athletes, spouses, authors, individuals and fortune 500 corporations with their immigrant and non immigrant visa needs.  My dedication and efficiency enables me to manage my busy life as a lawyer, wife and parent of two active children.

Firm: Gardere

1601 Elm Street Suite 3000 , Dallas , Texas 75201

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Labor , Immigration, Immigration

Firm: Pena & Quintana PLLC.

6836 San Pedro Avenue , San Antonio , Texas 78744

Practice Areas: Immigration

Jose Barajas was born and raised in Austin, Texas. He graduated from W. Charles Akins High School in 2006. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, graduating in 2010. After college, Mr. Barajas entered law school and obtained his Juris Doctor degree in May 2013. He was admitted to the Texas Bar in November 2013.. Mr. Barajas represents families before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection) as well as the Immigration Court (Executive Office for Immigration Review). He handled cases involving marriage based adjustment of status, fiancée visas, naturalization, u-visas, t-visas and waivers of inadmissibility, special immigrant juvenile status, removal defense and both affirmative and defensive asylum cases.. Mr. Barajas has expanded his practice to include family law and criminal law matters in which there is an immigration component, including divorces, suits affecting the parent-child relationship and criminal defense. This broad spectrum of expertise allows Mr. Barajas to holistically represent his clients in legal matters.. Beginning in 2014, Mr. Barajas managed his law practice in Austin, where he worked on family-based immigration, special immigrant juvenile status, removal defense litigation including asylum and other relief. Mr. Barajas also handled associated family law and criminal law matters where there is an immigration component; including divorces, suits affecting the parent-child relationship and criminal defense.

Firm: J. Sparks Law, PLLC

4402 Merle Drive , Austin , Texas 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: Garcia & Block, PLLC

5825 Callaghan Road, Ste 108 , San Antonio , Texas 78228

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: JCP Law Firm

1140 Empire Central Dr Ste 110 , Dallas , Texas 75247

Practice Areas: Immigration

Somos un grupo de profesionistas que estamos comprometidos con la comunidad Inmigrante y enfocamos nuestro conocimiento y experiencia en brindar representación legal, honesta y confiable a familias en el área.  Nuestro compromiso es asesorarle correctamanete y sobretodo, informarlo de sus derechos y posibilidades de permanecer legal en este país.      Nuestra misión es establecer un a coneción con la comunidad Inmigrante, la cual no se limíte a la asesoría legal, sino que se extienda en apoyar el crecimiento de la misma manera que podamos contribuir a que los inmigrantes tengan una posibilidad real de competir en el día a día de nuestra sociedad.

Firm: Castro Law, PLLC

1202 W. Bitters Rd , San Antonio , Texas 78216

Practice Areas: Immigration

Juan R. Castro is an  attorney practicing in San Antonio. Mr. Castro focuses his legal practice in the areas of employment and family-based immigration as well as criminal defense and civil litigation.. Mr. Castro was born in New Orleans and is a first-generation American, the son of Honduran immigrants.. Mr. Castro earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Letourneau University with a double major in Finance and International Business and a minor in Economics. He has spent considerable time abroad in over 10 different countries, taking business courses in the countries of Honduras, Spain and Austria.. Mr. Castro attained his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio. While at St. Mary’s, Mr. Castro won or was a finalist in several mock and moot court competitions. At the end of his third year, Mr. Castro was named one of the top advocates of the school and inducted into the national Order of the Barristers, an honor bestowed on 10 law students each year that exhibited exceptional advocacy skills.. Mr. Castro is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the San Antonio Bar Association, the Mexican American Bar Association and of the Hispanic Law Alumni Association.

Firm: Foster LLP

912 S Capital of Texas Hwy , Austin , Texas 78746

Practice Areas: Immigration

Innovative Counsel for Pioneering Clientele, providing legal advice and strategies to U.S. businesses, multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and individuals.

Firm: Law Office of Joseph Muller

9600 Great Hills Trail , Austin , Texas 78759

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property , Immigration

Joseph Krebs Muller has focused on immigration matters since joining the Missouri Bar in the year 2012. He has dedicated nearly the entirety of his career to immigration law, whether through assisting individuals in applying for immigration benefits or defending them from removal.. Joseph has worked on a wide variety of immigration matters and has served thousands of clients in the following types of benefits:. The first step in any case is to schedule a consultation to determine the best options for you.

Firm: The Law Offices of Veronica Garza, PLLC

1398 W Mayfield Rd , Arlington , Texas 76015

Practice Areas: Immigration

Josefina Louis earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Texas in Arlington in 2010. She first became interested in immigration law in 2012, through her internship at a large nonprofit in Fort Worth, Texas. Because of her tireless work and dedication to the nonprofit’s DACA program, that same year she was hired on as a part-time caseworker. During this time, Mrs. Louis was studying at the Texas Wesleyan School of Law, now known as the Texas A&M School of Law, where she received her Juris Doctorate in May 2014. In November 2014, Mrs. Louis was licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas.. Before joining the Law Offices of Veronica Garza, PLLC, Mrs. Louis worked for nonprofits and private law firms. She was the Senior Attorney at a nonprofit in Houston, Texas where she provided immigration guidance to her staff and the general public through numerous Know Your Rights presentations. Mrs. Louis’s immigration experience includes family-based and humanitarian cases, such as Family Petitions, Waivers of Inadmissibility and Unlawful Presence, Special Immigrant Juvenile cases, applications for Naturalization, Asylum claims, and Nunc Pro Tunc cases.. Mrs. Louis continues to be committed to immigration law, and her main goal is to provide exceptional service, honesty, and care to every case she works on. She understands the importance of family unity and is dedicated to advocate for her immigration clients by helping them navigate a very complex area of the law. Mrs. Louis is a first-generation Mexican-American, born and raised in Texas, and she is fluent in English and Spanish. She is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and the Hispanic Bar Association. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, family, and friends.

Firm: Martinez & Wilfong, PLLC

7322 Southwest Freeway, Ste. 770 , Houston , Texas 77063

Practice Areas: Immigration

Jose is a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. He proudly served with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2005 to 2006. After leaving the military, he attended the University of Houston and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. He was a member of the prestigious Texas Legislative Internship Program during his time at the University of Houston.. Soon after graduating from U of H, Jose enrolled in the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He obtained an associate editor position on the Thurgood Marshall Law Review and actively participated on the Moot Court team. He competed in numerous moot court competitions. As a member of the Earl Carl Institute, he wrote, researched, and edited portions of Our Story, a publication devoted to telling the rich history of Texas Southern University. Jose ultimately graduated summa cum laude and in the top 10 % of his graduating class.. On his free time, Jose enjoys running, reading, and volunteering.

Firm: Khinda Law Office

4306 Yoakum Blvd , Houston , Texas 77006

Practice Areas: Immigration, Tax, Business