We handle the full arc of immigration law — from the first affirmative application to a contested trial in immigration court — and we take the hard cases that other firms refer out. What sets this firm apart is what happens when an immigration case collides with a criminal one: we are equipped to handle both, the criminal trial and the immigration matter, from start to finish and under a single roof. Very few firms can say that, and for the families we serve it can be the difference between staying and being sent away.
We prepare and litigate asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture for clients fleeing persecution and harm, and we pursue humanitarian relief through VAWA and U- and T-visas for survivors of abuse, crime, and trafficking. These cases are not won on the form alone — they are won on the record behind it: a precise and credible declaration, the corroborating documents and witnesses, the medical and psychological evidence, and the country-conditions proof that shows what a client is returning to. That is where we put the work, because that is what an adjudicator actually weighs.
When a client is placed in removal proceedings, we mount a defense designed for that courtroom rather than improvised for it. We litigate cancellation of removal for both lawful permanent residents and non-permanent residents, bond, and the relief the facts will support, and we prepare the 601, 601A, and 212 waivers that can turn a denial into a path forward. Immigration court has its own rules, its own evidence, and its own rhythm — and we try cases in it the way trial lawyers try any case: fully prepared.
For a non-citizen, a criminal case and an immigration case are often the same case wearing two faces. A plea that looks like a clear win in criminal court — a quick deal, a little probation — can be an automatic ground of deportation or a permanent bar to relief, and by the time it surfaces in immigration court it is usually too late to undo. This is the firm’s center of gravity. Because our criminal and immigration attorneys are the same team, we analyze every charge and every offer for its immigration consequences before anything is signed, and where a past plea has already done damage, we pursue the post-conviction relief that may repair it. It is the precise, high-stakes work most firms are simply not built to do — and we handle it from the criminal trial through the immigration hearing without ever handing your case off.
Much of immigration is the patient work of building status over time. We handle family-based petitions, adjustment of status, consular processing, and the waivers of inadmissibility that clear the obstacles in between, and we file the FOIA requests that uncover a client’s own record before the government uses it against them. We tell clients the truth about timelines and risk, map the realistic paths, and then do the careful, document-driven work that gets them there.