Practice Areas
The firm's work is anchored in the immigration courts. The related filings below are handled with the same preparation, because they often decide whether a client can remain in the United States.
Removal defense
If you or a family member has received a Notice to Appear, the case is already in court. Early preparation shapes everything that follows: pleadings, applications, evidence deadlines, and the record an appeal will rely on.
- Master calendar appearances, pleadings, and relief strategy
- Cancellation of removal, adjustment, and other forms of relief
- Motions to reopen, reconsider, and terminate
- Bond hearings and custody redeterminations
- Substitution into cases already in progress
Asylum, withholding & CAT
Asylum cases are won on credibility and corroboration. We build the record carefully: detailed declarations, documentary support, country-conditions evidence, and expert and medical evidence where it helps.
- Defensive and affirmative asylum applications
- Withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture protection
- Political opinion, religion, and particular social group claims
- Country-conditions research and expert coordination
- Direct examination preparation and cross-examination readiness
Board of Immigration Appeals
An appeal must be filed within 30 days of the immigration judge's decision. The brief should identify specific legal and factual error and preserve every issue for federal review.
- Notices of appeal and full appellate briefing
- Review of the hearing transcript and record
- Motions to remand and stay requests
- Issue preservation for petitions for review
U visas, VAWA & SIJ
Federal law offers protection to victims of serious crimes, survivors of abuse by a U.S. citizen or permanent-resident family member, and children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned.
- U visas for victims of qualifying crimes who assist law enforcement
- VAWA self-petitions for survivors of family abuse
- Special Immigrant Juvenile status, including state-court predicate orders
- Waivers and adjustment of status that follow these petitions
Family-based immigration
Petitions for relatives, adjustment of status inside the United States, and immigrant visa processing abroad, with attention to inadmissibility issues before they become problems.
- Spouses, parents, children, and siblings of citizens and residents
- Adjustment of status and work and travel authorization
- Consular processing and interview preparation
- Waivers of inadmissibility
Business and R-1 visas
Temporary and permanent visas for professionals, executives, and investors, and petitions for congregations bringing ministers and religious workers to serve their communities.
- Employment-based temporary and permanent visas
- R-1 religious worker petitions and special immigrant religious worker green cards
- Compliance support for petitioning employers and religious organizations