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In July 2023, Global Immigration Associates, P.C. (GIA), Corporate Immigration Partners, LLP (CIP), and Hammond Neal Moore, LLP (HNM) combined into one firm under the banner of Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. (CIP PC). The combined firm is exclusively affiliated with Envoy Global, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

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Greater Boston Area

Represents corporations in a variety of employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters, including H-1B, L-1A/B, O-1, TN, EB-1, PERM/EB-2/3, and EB-5. Represents individuals in a variety of family-based green card processes, as well as naturalization cases. Experience with asylum, deportation defense, and crimmigration issues.

Greater Boston Area

Represented clients in a variety of immigration law cases, including removal defense, employment-based visa petitions, family-based visa petitions, fraud waivers, provisional unlawful presence waivers, asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and T/U visas before EOIR and USCIS, and consular processing before DOS.Specialized in employment-based.

Greater Boston Area

Interviewed clients and prepared sworn statements in preparation for mediation, settlement negotiations, and/or civil litigation. Provided trauma-informed counseling and representation to clients who have been victims of sexual abuse.Prepared letters detailing physical and emotional damages experienced by clients to opposingcounsel with a demand for.

Greater Boston Area

Provided trauma-informed counseling and representation of clients in SIJS, U-visa, T-visa, VAWA, asylum, and bond claims before USCIS and EOIR. Conducted forms assistance, including filing adjustment of status applications and accompanying waivers of inadmissibility, as well as naturalization applications, with USCIS, and represented clients in.

Greater Boston Area

Conducted research on a variety of family-law issues, including the growing socioeconomic marriage gap and LGBT family rights in the United States, to contribute to writings by Prof. McClain on these topics.

Greater Boston Area

Provided legal counseling and successful direct representation, in immigration and probate courts, to noncitizens seeking various types of immigration relief, including asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), relief under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), T-visa relief for victims of human trafficking, U-visa relief for victims of crimes.

Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston, MA

Counseled and advocated for clients with immigration-related issues, representing them before EOIR and USCIS. Drafted briefs, memos, and motions submitted to Boston Immigration Court and Suffolk County Probate Court. Won Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) and a visa petition under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) for the first two clients.

Greater Boston Area

Managed the editorial and publication process of the Public Interest Law Journal, which contains four scholarly articles and two student notes each semester. Managed a team of six articles editors, who in turn work with journal members to revise and technically check articles, and acted as the liaison between these editors, the authors, and the publisher..

Greater Boston Area

Worked with Boston-area NGOs, the Attorney General's office, the FBI, and ICE to represent both citizen and noncitizen victims of human trafficking in claims for immigration relief and affirmative defenses to prosecution. Connected clients with collateral services such as housing, physical and mental health care, and opportunities for victim's.

Greater Boston Area

Conducted legal research on various immigration issues, including gender-based and political asylum, waivers of inadmissibility, asylum in the EU, and the impact of criminal convictions on immigration status.Drafted briefs, motions, and memoranda regarding asylum, adjustment of status, waivers of inadmissibility, and business visas to be submitted to.

Greater Boston Area

Interviewed women in the emergency department regarding domestic violence issues.Initiated safety plans for victims of domestic violence and connected them with social services.Filed restraining orders and worked with the Boston DA's office on open DV cases.

J.D., Law

Ba, Cum Laude, English, Art History, Dean'S List All Semesters

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