Immigration & Asylum

Our Immigration & Asylum practice group provides comprehensive legal representation to individuals navigating a broad range of employment-based, family-based, and humanitarian matters. We advocate for our clients’ rights and pursue the best possible outcomes before immigration authorities and courts. 

We assist clients with a wide range of immigration issues, including asylum applications, removal hearings, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions, filings with USCIS, representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews), representation before the Immigration Court, and representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Our experience includes extensive work with H-2A petitions and H-2B temporary labor certification programs, Requests for Evidence (RFEs), R-1 religious worker visa petitions, H-4 applications, Form I-290B motions and appeals, TN extensions, TN RFEs, Notices of Intent to Deny (NOIDs), and Notices of Intent to Revoke (NOIRs). We also have experience assisting with H-2B matters, professional worker visas, EB-3 and PERM labor certification for skilled and unskilled workers, H-1B specialty occupation visas, EB-1A, EB-1C, and O-1A extraordinary ability and multinational executive petitions.

Our attorneys handle cases involving the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and undocumented unaccompanied minors. Our Humanitarian and Asylum practice features the tactical toolkit, litigation experience, and linguistic capabilities required to competently manage the complex legal landscape surrounding undocumented children in ORR custody. We work to facilitate their release to a sponsor, handle their removal defense in immigration court, or petition for specific relief such as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) or Youth Asylum. These cases requires navigating both state juvenile or family courts to achieve dependency orders and federal immigration systems (USCIS). Our attorneys handle both affirmative asylum applications and representation at Asylum Interviews. We handle T Visas and U Visas, which protect victims of human trafficking and severe crimes that may affect unaccompanied minors during their journey or upon arrival.

Among our attorneys are native English and Spanish speakers, and attorneys with fluency in Popti’ (a Mayan language from Guatemala) and Portuguese, as well as professional proficiency in French and Russian, allowing us to effectively communicate with a diverse client base.  Fluency in Popti’ is a differentiator our firm offers because a significant portion of unaccompanied minors are indigenous children from Guatemala who may not speak Spanish natively or comfortably.