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Jae Min Lee
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer
Free ConsultationImmigration
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law - Texas Wesleyan University
My firm provides immigration services focused on achieving client's goals and providing a positive client experience. At my firm, you will always receive one-on-one guidance during every stage of your case. Unlike large law firms with an extensive staff, you will always work directly with me. Whether you wish to call, text or email, I will always remain accessible. My goal is to offer a superior level of attention to each individual I represent — simply because that’s what I would want.
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Susham Mahendra Modi
Harris County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Immigration
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Susham M. Modi focuses his practice on serving individuals who are dealing with immigration law issues. In addition to his private practice as owner of The Modi Law Firm, PLLC, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law and was a Clinical Supervising Attorney at the University of Houston Law Center's Immigration Clinic. The clinic helps individuals from all over the globe with their immigration concerns, providing pro bono services. Attorney Modi was responsible for supervising and teaching upper-level students working on various complex immigration cases. He has also co-taught Asylum/Refugee Law. Before moving to Houston, he worked as an Attorney...
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Emem Akpabio
Dallas County, TX Immigration Attorney
Immigration, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Texas A&M University School of Law
The Law Office of Emem O. Akpabio, PLLC is a full service law firm offering clients a wide range of legal services, including family law, personal injury, immigration, wills, guardianship, and business law. We are focused on providing effective, efficient, and accurate results for our clients.
Our firm differentiates from other law firms by putting our clients first. We take on few cases at a time so we can focus on our clients and be available to meet their needs.
To us, a client is not just a voice on the phone, but a life-long relationship.
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Bruce Coane
Harris County, TX Immigration Attorney with 42 years of experience
Immigration and Employment
Pennsylvania State University - University Park
Mr. Coane received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors from Penn State University in 1979. He received a Juris Doctor Degree in Law from the University of Houston in 1981, and is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United State Court of Appeals in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Atlanta and San Francisco. He is also admitted to practice by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...
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John Walter Lawit
Dallas County, TX Immigration Attorney with 45 years of experience
(214) 609-2242
4324 N. Belt Line Rd., Bldg C, Suite 110
Irving, TX 75038
Immigration
University of New Hampshire School of Law
The attorneys and staff at John W. Lawit are dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services to ensure the rights and benefits of the immigrant community. We are also dedicated to protecting the rights of employers, by assisting with immigrant and nonimmigrant visa applications, I-9 compliance and worksite enforcement. As a team of legal professionals, we provide comprehensive, innovative and competent legal services to our clients to promote opportunities for a meaningful quality of life.
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John W. Lawit began practicing immigration law in 1980. Over the course of 42 years, John and his staff successfully assisted tens of thousands...
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Kathryn Karam
Harris County, TX Immigration Attorney with 16 years of experience
Immigration
The University of Texas School of Law
Kathryn N. Karam is a dedicated and skilled attorney who has practiced immigration law in Texas since 2007. Karam is the founder of The Law Office of Kathryn N. Karam in Houston where she represents clients throughout Harris County facing immigration issues. Before law school, Karam studied Chinese and earned her bachelor of arts in Chinese from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She also earned her certificate in Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. Karam earned her juris doctor in 2007 from the University of Texas School of Law. ...
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Armand Jawanmardi
Harris County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Immigration and Personal Injury
The University of Texas School of Law
Armand Jawanmardi is a dedicated Houston Immigration Attorney. He practices in all areas of Immigration Law, including Removal and Deportation Defense, Asylum, Immigration Bonds, Immigration Appeals, and Adjustment of Status. Having been born to an immigrant father, Armand understands immigration matters on both personal and professional levels. He is committed to providing individual attention, affordable representation, and aggressive advocacy. Armand is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Armand received a B.S. Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Houston. In 2013, he graduated from the highest ranked law school in Texas- The University of Texas School of Law....
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Melody Rae Poole
Galveston County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Immigration
University of Houston - Main Campus
I remain fascinated by the varied ways my extended family came together in the United States, including family sponsorship, extraordinary ability, and entry without inspection. I enjoy helping others with their own journey to the US, be it temporary or permanent, whether joining family or pursuing opportunity. Current technology allows me to provide personalized, professional legal assistance whether you are around the corner or around the globe.
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Justin Michael Jackson
Williamson County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Immigration, Divorce, Family and Probate
St. Mary's University School of Law
Justin M. Jackson is a native Texan, spending his early childhood in Edinburg, Texas and later graduating from Round Rock High School.
Mr. Jackson received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and obtained his law degree from St. Mary’s Law School, graduating magna cum laude (top 3% of his class).
While in law school, he was a member of the Law Review and interned with the Hon. Judge Emilio Garza of the Federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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ADRIANA ELENA BELLO ROOSEN
Harris County, TX Immigration Attorney with 8 years of experience
Ms. Adriana Bello focuses her immigration work on business immigration matters, such as Employment Based Extraordinary Abilities or National Interest Waiver residence petitions, E2 Investors Visas, L1 Intracompany Transferee visas, among others. Due to her strong business background, Ms. Bello has developed a niche in assisting foreign highly qualified professionals and reviewing their business and work opportunities in the United States. As an immigration lawyer she believes that “you’re really trying to tell a person’s story and explain why that person seeks an opportunity to permanently stay in the United States. I’ve always liked the fact that everybody has their...
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Alfredo Lozano
Bexar County, TX Immigration Attorney with 19 years of experience
(210) 899-2290
5718 University Heights Blvd.
Ste. 104
San Antonio, TX 78249
Immigration
Lozano Law Firm is an immigration law firm that serves various communities in Texas. The firm, founded by Alfred Lozano, is dedicated to providing each client with personalized and cost effective immigration solutions. Mr. Lozano's passion for immigration law is rooted in his personal experience as a first generation American with Mexican immigrant parents. His wife is also an immigrant. This experience paves the way to a deeply personalized service to the firm's immigrant clients.
Mr. Lozano is not just experienced in immigration matters. he is also a Board-Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, certified...
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Jessie Thomas
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Touro College
If you are seeking to bring a loved one to the United States and you live in the United States, you have come to the right place. Jessie M. Thomas is dedicated to immigration matters, especially those involving bringing couples and families together. Jessie graduated from the Touro Law Center in 2001. Since then she has represented hundreds of families and individuals in immigration, green card, permanent residence and citizenship cases. Jessie entered private practice after graduation where she continued to focus on family immigration. In 2008, Jessie founded the Law Office of Jessie M. Thomas where she...
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Gregory L. Ahlgren
Webb County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Immigration, Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy and International
St. Mary's University School of Law
As a member of the Texas Bar College, my legal practice is focused on federal and cross-border legal matters, including litigation, import/export, and nearshore business projects. Additionally, I have extensive experience with international telecommunications law. I have been licensed by the State Bar of Texas since May 25, 1995, and am also licensed by the Department of Homeland Security as a United States Customs Broker. My firm specializes in legal matters in the USA/Latin America context, representing foreign clients within the US legal system, as well as managing outbound legal matters for US-based clients.
The Ahlgren Law Firm provides strategic...
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Elissa I. Henry
Williamson County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Immigration, Personal Injury and Probate
Baylor Law School
Elissa I. Henry serves clients looking for auto accident and pedestrian injury representation, probate and wills, and family based immigration. She assists individuals and families with a wide away of immigration matters such as family based visa applications, fiance visas, and naturalization/citizenship.
Elissa primarily practices in Williamson and Travis counties. Her clients primarily come from Round Rock, Hutto, Cedar Park, and Pflugerville.
Elissa attended New York University where she received her B.A. Elissa then attended law school at Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas. Elissa was admitted to the Texas Bar in 2016, and has served in various legal...
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Robert Smead Hogan
Lubbock County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Immigration, Appeals, Communications and Personal Injury
Texas Tech University School of Law
Practicing law in Lubbock over the last twenty years has allowed me to work for some of the finest, most hard-working people. I have enjoyed having the chance to earn the respect and trust of my clients as we work for them. I have been privileged to handle personal injury cases, wrongful death cases, train collisions, automobile collisions, truck wrecks, insurance claims, and the many other types of cases in state and Federal courts.
Together with my outstanding staff members, we make it a priority to treat each client like the only client, and help navigate through the complicated legal system....
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Julie Sparks
Travis County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Immigration
University of Houston - Main Campus
Julie Sparks is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Immigration and Nationality Law. During her nearly 17 years of practice in this field, she has represented immigrants from more than 120 different countries.
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. Her love for this area of law remains to this day. Clients and potential clients often tell...
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Carmiann S. Céspedes
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer
Free ConsultationImmigration, Divorce, Family and Tax
University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras
I offer services in U.S. immigration law worldwide and divorce cases in Puerto Rico. In my immigration practice I dedicate my days to helping couples obtain K1 visas and their corresponding adjustment of status. Waivers (601A), removal of conditions petitions and naturalization procedures are also part of my daily work. I also have hands on experience with employment based immigration as for example, TN and H1B visas. Additionally, I have extensive experience handling U visa petitions. I have helped thousands of people worldwide in their cases in USCIS and U.S. Embassies and Consulates. In my practice in Puerto Rico I...
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Diego Bustillos
Harris County, TX Immigration Attorney
Immigration
University of Texas School of Law
Mr. Bustillos’ practice focuses on business immigration. His clients can count on top-notch services, sincerity, and approachability when dealing with their immigration matters. Mr. Bustillos has successfully represented clients in complex EB1-Extraordinary Ability, and EB2 National Interest Waiver petitions; as well as E2 investor visas, and L1 intracompany transferee visas. By studying his clients’ business and area of expertise, Mr. Bustillos helps them find the best strategy for their immigration needs.
Mr. Bustillos received his Master of Laws (LL.M) in Global Energy, International Arbitration and Environmental Law from the University of Texas School of Law and his Law Degree (LL.B) from...
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Ifeyinwa Golibe Ononogbu
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Immigration, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
American University Washington College of Law
Ify Ononogbu is the principal attorney and the founder of Law Office of Ify Ononogbu in Dallas, Texas, where she practices immigration and family law and assists in reuniting families, custody and divorce. After working and studying law in several countries including the United States, Spain, Colombia and Peru, she opened her own boutique law firm. As an advocate for access to affordable justice as a first-generation American, she is passionate about helping families legally emigrate to the U.S.
Ify is also passionate about being a voice for the voiceless, or marginalized and underrepresented populations in the country, that is what...
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Aundrea L Roberts
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Immigration, Criminal Defense and Family
Regent University School of Law
EXPERIENCE: For nearly 13 years, I have focused on representing clients in a variety of complex cases involving immigration law, criminal defense and family law. I have successfully helped thousands of clients over the years with extremely difficult cases.
RESULTS DRIVEN: Our goal is always to get you the best result possible. We don't make guarantees of a particular outcome, but what we do guarantee is that we will aggressively pursue every legal avenue possible as we fight for you.
OUR DIFFERENCE: I take pride in every person that entrusts me with their legal matter. For that...
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Daniel Leon Valdez
Harris County, TX Immigration Attorney with 11 years of experience
Immigration, Criminal Defense, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
At Valdez Legal Advocacy ("VLA"), we handle a wide array of legal issues such as business development, immigration law, personal injury cases, real property issues, wills and probate, and more. We take the time to get to know each and every client in order to meet the need of each unique legal issue. We pride ourselves in simplified effective legal solutions that are coupled with technology and modern-day conveniences. VLA has also developed a network of experienced legal professionals to ensure your legal concerns do not go unresolved.
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Donald Scott Mackenzie
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Immigration, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
My firm provides comprehensive legal services and sound, reasoned advice. My wide range of experience, in state and federal courts, lets me deliver efficient and effective representation with your best interest always the primary goal.
Litigation is about balancing risk; the art of law is balancing risk and cost to obtain the best possible result for the client. Common sense, excellent education and practical experience are combined with my personal desire to help each of my clients. You are important to me.
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Snigdha Ghoshal
Travis County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 8 years of experience
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Tatiauna J Holland
Harris County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Immigration and Business
Southern University Law Center
Tatiauna Holland is the owner and managing attorney of Holland Law Firm, PLLC. Tatiauna opened the Holland Law Firm in 2014 with the idea that real people with real problems want sound, solid legal advice. They want an attorney who can give straightforward solutions. She is determined to not be another attorney in a black or gray suit. She works diligently as an ally and guide through each client's immigration, business, and criminal defense needs. Tatiauna brings a wealth of diverse legal experience to private practice, including personal injury, family, criminal defense, immigration, and business law. Before...
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Loc Tan Dang
Travis County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Immigration, Bankruptcy and Personal Injury
Trinity Law School
Loc Dang is the founder and managing partner of Dang Law Group, PLLC, a firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. He has years of experience and works tirelessly while representing his clients. Utilizing the highest ethical and professional standards, Loc is known for aggressively safeguarding the rights of his clients to ensure the highest probability of successful results. His firm focuses on personal injury and Immigration cases.
Dang Law Group handles numerous personal injury cases such as automobile accidents, 18-wheeler collisions, wrongful deaths, and offshore injuries. He and his team have a vast intricate knowledge and understanding of how insurance companies evaluate,...
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Jefferey Kennon Green
McKinney, TX Immigration Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
William Howard Taft University
Green Chavez Law Firm offers comprehensive immigration and naturalization legal advice and counsel. If you have an immigration legal matter or problem we can offer you personalized and comprehensive representation in McKinney and the North Texas area.
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Yesenia Tovar
Tarrant County, TX Immigration Lawyer
Immigration
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Luis F. Hess
Montgomery County, TX Immigration Attorney with 14 years of experience
Immigration, Business and Real Estate
Saint Louis University School of Law
A Houston Attorney licensed in Texas and with over years of experience practicing immigration law and business. Substantial experience handling all areas of Employment-Based (EB) immigration, Family-Based (FB) immigration, Non-Immigrant Visa, and Investment matters.
Mr. Hess has a proven track record filing labor certification cases with the U.S. Department of Labor and various types of non-immigrant and immigrant visa petitions with USCIS and representing privately-held companies.
Mr. Hess is admitted to practice law in all courts of the State of Texas, all Immigration Courts throughout the United States and the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas. He...
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Ricardo Tapia
Harris County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico
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Griselda Ponce
Travis County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Immigration and Family
ST. MARY'S University School of Law
Graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1997 with a Bachelor in Social Work and soon thereafter, worked with the immigrant community as a social worker at a local middle school. In my work, I saw first-hand, the difficulties the undocumented confronted and decided to pursue law school to assist the immigrant community and have a greater impact on their everyday lives. Immediately upon enrollment in St. Mary's School of Law in 2000, I began assisting immigrants obtain legal status as a student attorney through the St. Mary's Immigration Clinic. I obtained my Juris Doctor...
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Ava (Na) Li
Harris County, TX Immigration Lawyer
Free ConsultationImmigration, Estate Planning, IP and Trademarks
South Texas College of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
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AVA LI LAW PLLC
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Yovanna Vargas
Dallas County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Immigration
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge
Attorney Yovanna Vargas provides legal services in matters of immigration and nationality law. She earned her Master of Laws from Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University in 2012, and received his first Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of Peru in 1989. She is originally from Lima, Peru, early in her career she specialized in tax law, public policy and international law for over 15 years.
Attorney Vargas contributed to the consolidation of improvements in quality of custom services to taxpayers to stimulate voluntary compliance, and strengthened tax auditing action. She was a legal counsel under the International Agreement...
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Waled Aly Elsaban
Dallas County, TX Immigration Attorney
Immigration
University of Kansas School of Law
Waled Elsaban is the Managing Partner of the Elsaban Law Firm PLLC. Our practice primarily focuses on removal defense, family-sponsored, and humanitarian-based immigration law.
Notably, the Law Firm handles cancellation of removal, asylum, complex waivers, U visa, VAWA, TPS, naturalization, diversity (green card) lottery. Waled holds a comprehensive understanding of how a criminal conviction could adversely impact the immigrant’s admissibility.
Waled is a zealous advocate and a compassionate defender of foreign nationals who cannot speak for themselves. He has a solid grasp of the current challenges faced by the immigrants, and the intolerable social, economic and psychological toll endured by the immigrant’s...
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Guillermo Ramos
Dallas County, TX Immigration Attorney with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration, Consumer, Family and Real Estate
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law - Texas Wesleyan University
Even before founding The Ramos Law Firm, Guillermo Ramos has been devoted to advancing his client’s causes. First as a real estate agent then Real Estate Broker, Mr. Ramos, represented his clients in real estate transactions across North Texas. In 2004, he formed G R Realtors & Associates LLC a Texas real estate brokerage. He has taught agents in Texas the art of the real estate deal ever since. Desiring more out of his career he attended Texas A&M University School of Law. He graduated in December 2009 and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas as a...
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Nejd Jill Yaziji
Harris County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration and Personal Injury
I've been doing civil litigation in Texas courts for fifteen years, and I am a proud board member of several committees of the Houston Bar Association. My practice focuses on the clients' needs and objectives.
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Ivan Crespo
Montgomery County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Family
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico
Abogado Hispano con mas de 20 años de experiencia y autorizado a litigar casos Estatales y Federales. Atendemos principalmente casos Criminales, Inmigración, Familia y Apelaciones. Tenemos gran experiencia defendiendo casos de alcohol, abuso sexual y defensa de insanidad mental, entre otros. Bilingual attorney admitted to practice Law in Texas, the U.S. Federal Southern District of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. For the past years, I have been litigating and providing advice in the areas of Criminal law, Immigration, Appellate, and family law. I have strong experience litigating DWI, mental...
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Michael Presti
Dallas County, TX Immigration Attorney with 12 years of experience
Immigration
Creighton University School of Law
Attorney Michael Presti is committed to providing people with honest legal services and strong advocacy for their rights. He has worked with clients from around the world who want to win immigration cases against the government, obtain green cards and visas and gain citizenship. For other clients, Michael has been a driving force for upholding client rights in personal injury and criminal law cases. He has an excellent background in law and extensive experience with negotiation and presenting winning cases in the courtroom.
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Carlos G. Quintana
Bexar County, TX Immigration Attorney with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration, Criminal Defense and Family
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law-Yeshiva University
Mr. Quintana grew up in an immigrant family and saw firsthand how difficult the immigration process can be on an immigrant’s entire family. Having parents who immigrated to the United States for a better life, Mr. Quintana was keenly aware of the various opportunities being a citizen of the United States provided and worked hard so that he could give back to the community that had provided him the motivation to succeed. Mr. Quintana was the first in his family to attend University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico. After completing his undergraduate education, Mr....
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Matthew Myers
Bexar County, TX Immigration Lawyer with 9 years of experience
(210) 640-7424
8620 N New Braunfels Ave
Ste 502B
San Antonio, TX 78217
Immigration
Baylor Law School
As Founder and Managing Attorney with Myers Immigration Law, Matthew Myers is one of the most respected business immigration attorneys in Texas, serving as the Immediate Past Chair of the Immigration Section for the State Bar of Texas and recently appointed by the Texas Bar President to serve on a select Committee on Laws Relating to Immigration & Nationality. He began his immigration career with one of the largest international immigration law firms, where he handled a high volume of highly complex U.S. business immigration matters for high net worth individuals, startups, small to mid-size businesses, and Fortune 100 companies....
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Adena Bowman
Harris County, TX Immigration Attorney with 11 years of experience
Immigration
South Texas College of Law
Adena is an immigration attorney at Shoreline Immigration. Adena is an attorney licensed in the State of Texas since 2012. Adana holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Texas A&M University and a Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law Houston.
Adena Bowman has been practicing immigration law for over eight years. Over the course of her practice, she has assisted numerous businesses and individuals with H-1B, E-3, and TN petitions. She has successfully represented numerous clients on E2 and EB5 investment visas. She is familiar with the permanent residence process, including PERM, I-140 petitions and adjustments of status....