![Prerna Lal]( "Prerna Lal")
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Prerna Lal
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney with 8 years of experience
Immigration and Tax
The George Washington University Law School
A monumental civil rights advocate, Attorney Prerna Lal pioneered a robust network of highly-organized and diverse undocumented youth with digital engagement capacity, and fought against the deportations of immigrant community members. This model of organizing spurred immigration organizations across the country to fight against deportations, and laid the groundwork for the Obama Administration’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)” program. For this, Attorney Lal received awards and recognition in the community, including the Changemaker of the Year award from the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). ABC News has listed Lal as among the “Top 20 Immigration Experts to Follow...
![Gopal Shah]( "Gopal Shah")
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Gopal Shah
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 9 years of experience
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Golden Gate University School of Law
We are a boutique Immigration Law Firm based in Berkeley, CA. We provide personalized and efficient U.S. Immigration legal services to Individuals, Families, Startups, Entrepreneurs, and Small Businesses throughout the United States.
![Erich Gerard Keefe]( "Erich Gerard Keefe")
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Erich Gerard Keefe
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney with 20 years of experience
Immigration
New Coll of CA School of Law
Erich Keefe is a former social worker, whose immigration practice is an extension of those values and goals. His practice focuses on asylum seekers, VAWA self-petitioners, U Visa applicants, green card applicants, and others facing immigration court proceedings.
![Christian Schmidt]( "Christian Schmidt")
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Christian Schmidt
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney with 23 years of experience
Immigration
Golden Gate University School of Law
![Katherine Parsons Dwight]( "Katherine Parsons Dwight")
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Katherine Parsons Dwight
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney with 16 years of experience
Immigration and Criminal
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Katherine has 11 years experience practicing immigration law and vacating convictions for immigrants with criminal convictions. She is also a member of the public attorney panel for the Sixth District Court of Appeal, handling appeals for criminal defendants who cannot afford to hire attorneys for themselves. Katherine is a zeolous advocate for each and every one of her clients.
![Jin S. Kim]( "Jin S. Kim")
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Jin S. Kim
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Immigration
Univ of Oregon School of Law
![Seeta Nangia]( "Seeta Nangia")
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Seeta Nangia
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney
Seeta Nangia has extensive experience in a wide variety of immigration matters including, family and employment-based visas, consular processing, naturalization, waivers for inadmissibility, asylum, deportation defense, and appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Ms. Nangia has represented clients before the San Francisco Immigration Court, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and U.S. Consulates abroad. She has worked for immigration law firms in Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco.
Ms. Nangia is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)’s Northern California and Santa Clara Valley Chapters. She is admitted...
![Linda Levy]( "Linda Levy")
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Linda Levy
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Immigration
Hastings College of Law
Katerina Linos
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney
Immigration
Harvard Law School
Christine Marie Stouffer
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Immigration
Golden Gate University School of Law
Sara Mostafavi
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer
(510) 849-0996
Ext. 2
1900 Addison Street
Suite 250
Berkeley, CA 94704
Immigration
George Washington University
Leti Volpp
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer
Immigration
Columbia Law School and UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, FACULTY OF LAW
Nancy Ann Hormachea
Berkeley, CA Immigration Attorney with 48 years of experience
Immigration
University of Houston Law Center
Ayako Kay Nagano
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Immigration and Estate Planning
Fordham University School of Law
Kuruvilla Mathen
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Immigration and International
Golden Gate University School of Law
Varya Simpson
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Immigration and Business
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Razi Abbas Shah
Berkeley, CA Immigration Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Immigration and International
Lincoln Law School
![Precilla Diaz]( "Precilla Diaz")
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Precilla Diaz
Oakland, CA Immigration Attorney with 20 years of experience
Immigration and Personal Injury
![Kyle K. Morishita]( "Kyle K. Morishita")
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Kyle K. Morishita
Oakland, CA Immigration Lawyer
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University of California, Davis, School of Law
During World War II, the U.S. government detained my U.S. citizen grandparents because of their Japanese ancestry. Learning about this history and serving as my grandfather's caretaker inspired me to become an attorney.
I interned for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps. I also clerked for Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and the Honorable Kristen L. Mix of the U.S. District Court. I received honors from Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Martindale-Hubbell.
I completed a ten-day silent meditation course, coached basketball, and practice yoga. I serve on the Board of Trustees...
![Otis Landerholm]( "Otis Landerholm")
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Otis Landerholm
10.0 
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Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfOakland, CA Immigration Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Immigration
Golden Gate University School of Law
Otis greatly enjoys learning languages. He speaks both Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. He believes that with increasing globalization, people need to get to know one another; a good way to start is to learn each other's language.
Before practicing law, Otis lived in countries as diverse as Spain, Argentina, Japan, China and Ecuador. He received two bachelor's degrees (in Philosophy and Linguistics) from Washington State University, and he later received his law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. While at Golden Gate, Otis received various honors and awards and placed among the top of...
![Liliana Gallelli]( "Liliana Gallelli")
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Liliana Gallelli
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfSan Francisco, CA Immigration Lawyer
Immigration, Business and Criminal
Liliana Gallelli is an attorney since 2004 and has specialized in immigration, business and post-conviction law matters. She has represented hundreds of clients before immigration agencies, immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, federal district courts, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Her work involves applications for business visas (L1s, E2s, H1bs, among others), family petitions, removal proceedings/deportation, asylum, and U visas, among others. She speaks Spanish fluently and conversational Portuguese, Italian and French.
Ms. Gallelli also represents clients in business law including:
Business Formation (LLC’s, S and C Corporations)
Sales Agreements
Partnerships
Applications for Alcohol License
Applications for Contractors...
![Jesse Adam Lloyd]( "Jesse Adam Lloyd")
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Jesse Adam Lloyd
Oakland, CA Immigration Attorney with 22 years of experience
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UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Jesse Lloyd is a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and has helped certify new specialists as a member California State Bar Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Council. He is a past chair of the Alameda County Bar Association Immigration Section, American Immigration Lawyers Association national ICE liaison committee, and Northern California Chapter. He has appeared on numerous television, web, and radio stories regarding immigration matters.
Jesse focuses on family-based immigration, removal defense, naturalization, asylum, and the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.
![Sweta Khandelwal]( "Sweta Khandelwal")
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Sweta Khandelwal
San Francisco, CA Immigration Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Immigration
UCLA School of Law and Faculty of Law, Delhi University
Sweta has been practicing law for more than 10 years and has represented clients across multiple nationalities. Sweta has been recognized as amongst the "Top 40 under 40" immigration attorneys in CA by the American Society of Legal Advocates. An immigrant herself, Sweta came to the US as a dependent on a H-4 Visa, transferred to a student (F-1) visa, interned under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) Program, worked on a H-1B Visa, and is finally self-employed while obtaining her Permanent Residency. Sweta has navigated her way through the complex web of US immigration laws and...
![Jonathan Charles Dunten]( "Jonathan Charles Dunten")
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Jonathan Charles Dunten
Oakland, CA Immigration Attorney with 18 years of experience
Immigration and Criminal
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
I am licensed to practice law before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, California State Courts, the Federal District Court for Northern California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
I received my undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara with honors and my Juris Doctor from Golden Gate University School of Law, including certificates of specialization with distinction in international and business law.
I formerly served as a media liaison for the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and was a professor of immigration and criminal...
![Fariba Faiz]( "Fariba Faiz")
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Fariba Faiz
San Francisco, CA Immigration Attorney with 25 years of experience
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Southwestern University School of Law
Fariba is the founder of Fariba Faiz Law Offices PC, based out of San Francisco, California. Attorney Faiz is an experienced immigration attorney with a proven track record of successfully petitioning in the realm of investment immigration (E-1/E-2 visas and direct and regional center EB-5 projects), family-based immigration, and employment-based immigration. Fariba works with multinational firms and their employees and immigrant investors in partnership to transfer, intra-company, foreign personnel and their families to the United States. She partners with employers and employees in various industries including information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotech, finance and banking sector, hospitals and healthcare providers, architectural design...
![Claribel Palacios Maduena]( "Claribel Palacios Maduena")
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Claribel Palacios Maduena
Alameda, CA Immigration Attorney with 13 years of experience
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Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Ms. Madueña is an expert immigration lawyer in the Bay Area handling a wide range of immigration matters, including complex cases with criminal issues. The bulk of her practice focuses on family-based immigration and removal defense. She has successfully argued for the release of clients in immigration detention, and has obtained Adjustment of Status, Asylum, and Cancellation of Removal for her clients against the government in Immigration Court. Ms. Madueña has also obtained Lawful Permanent Residency, Asylum, Naturalization, NACARA, and Waivers before the immigration office. Notably, when she was a first-year associate, Ms. Madueña presented a complex criminal and...
![Andrei Romanenko]( "Andrei Romanenko")
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Andrei Romanenko
San Francisco, CA Immigration Attorney with 11 years of experience
Immigration
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
![Davy S. Day]( "Davy S. Day")
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Davy S. Day
San Francisco, CA Immigration Attorney with 17 years of experience
Immigration
Santa Clara University School of Law
Davy is a Supervising Attorney at Pearl Law Group. He focuses his legal practice on U.S. corporate immigration law. Davy has experience assisting and consulting foreign nationals, including high-level multinational executives and managers, individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers, and professional workers, on matters relating to employment-based immigration and nonimmigrant status/visa.
![Geri N. Kahn]( "Geri N. Kahn")
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Geri N. Kahn
San Francisco, CA Immigration Attorney with 32 years of experience
(415) 397-5446
465 California Street
Suite 607
San Francisco, CA 94104
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfImmigration and Social Security Disability
U of San Francisco School of Law
I practice both Immigration and Nationality Law and Social Security Disability law.
As to the Immigration field, I represent people in removal (deportation) proceedings. I also assist small businesses in obtaining professional visas such as H-1Bs or L-1s for their employees. I represent applicants for political asylum, and religious workers and individuals at all stages of the naturalization process. Finally, I help people who wish to bring their family members to the United States.
In the Social Security field, I represent disabled individuals at administrative hearings and in federal court.
In both areas I...
![Arezou Bakhtjou]( "Arezou Bakhtjou")
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Arezou Bakhtjou
Oakland, CA Immigration Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration and Criminal
Law Office of Arezou Bakhtjou is located in Oakland, CA and helps clients in Richmond, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Hayward, San Leandro, Pleasanton, Martinez, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, and all Bay Area Counties including Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Solano County, and San Francisco County.? Memberships: Alameda County Bar Association ?Alameda County Bar Association Criminal Division (Board Member) Women Lawyers of Alameda County Alameda County Court Appointed Attorneys Program Alameda County Bar Association Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee Experience: County of Contra Costa Court Appointed Attorneys Program Placer County...
![Robert P. Gaffney]( "Robert P. Gaffney")
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Robert P. Gaffney
San Francisco, CA Immigration Lawyer with 43 years of experience
(415) 989-1998
601 Montgomery Street
Suite 1114
San Francisco, CA 94111
Immigration
UC Hastings COL
A California State Bar Certified Specialist in immigration and nationality law, has over 25 years of experience counseling a wide range of corporate and individual clients in areas of employment-related, investment, and family-based visa and immigration matters. He has developed significant expertise and a strong practice focus representing alien entrepreneurs under the EB-5 visa program and counseling U.S. businesses in the development of investment opportunities designed to qualify foreign direct investors for immigrant status under the EB5 provisions. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and is the author of "Country Specific Issues and Challenges in Representing EB-5 Petitioners...
![Arash Yasrebi]( "Arash Yasrebi")
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Arash Yasrebi
Oakland, CA Immigration Attorney
Free ConsultationImmigration
University of San Francisco School of Law
![Harry G. Lewis]( "Harry G. Lewis")
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Harry G. Lewis
San Francisco, CA Immigration Lawyer with 31 years of experience
351 California St
#600
San Francisco, CA 94104
Immigration, Business and Employment
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Harry G. Lewis is an accomplished Employment, Immigration and Business Law attorney with extensive trial experience. He represents private and public companies, non-profits, public agencies and individuals throughout California.
Harry partners with clients to find creative strategies that address their complex legal needs. He has an uncompromising dedication to excellence, providing attentive service and skilled advocacy, always focused on achieving the best possible results.
Harry received his B.A. from the University of Virginia. In 1991, he earned his J.D. from William & Mary Law School. Harry is active in the community, including serving on the Board of Directors for the Marin Humane...
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Jo-Anna Marie Nieves
Oakland, CA Immigration Attorney
Free ConsultationImmigration, Criminal, DUI and Domestic Violence
Florida State University College of Law
Ms. Nieves passed the California Bar in 2009 and went to work at the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. Two years later, she accepted a position as a trial attorney at a creditor’s rights law practice, where she effectively litigated over 400 contested matters and maintained a 95% success rate. She then formed The Nieves Law Firm to help restore the reputations of those who have been accused of crimes and help them plan for a better future. She believes in taking the “criminal” out of criminal defense and strives to help her clients navigate the complex legal process...
![James A. Bach]( "James A. Bach")
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James A. Bach
San Francisco, CA Immigration Lawyer with 43 years of experience
(415) 248-3100
100 Bush Street, Suite 1980
Shell Building
San Francisco, CA 94104
Immigration
UC Hastings COL
Mr. Bach received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1975 and his law degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1979. He has been working with immigration cases since 1978, and has lectured and written articles on immigration law. He has been a Member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association continuously since 1980. In 1989, Mr. Bach was one of the first lawyers certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law (less than 8% of California immigration attorneys are Board Certified by the State Bar)....
![Joshua J. Schroeder]( "Joshua J. Schroeder")
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Joshua J. Schroeder
Oakland, CA Immigration Attorney with 8 years of experience
Immigration, Appeals, Civil Rights and IP
Lewis & Clark Law School
Joshua J. Schroeder owns and operates SchroederLaw, a law firm located in Oakland, California that is focused on constitutional law at the intersection of intellectual property, immigration law, and social justice. We opened our doors right before the pandemic in 2020, and have been rolling with the punches ever since. Our story, like so many these days, is one of resilience and perseverance in unprecedented times.
In the pandemic, and during the transition of power after January 6, 2020, we never lost sight of our purpose. That purpose is to bring the best services to our clients...
![Christine Victoria Troy]( "Christine Victoria Troy")
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Christine Victoria Troy
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
San Francisco, CA Immigration Attorney with 23 years of experience
Immigration
University of California Hastings College of Law
Founded in 2000, The Law Office of Christine Troy provides high quality legal services to all clients. Christine Troy is an experienced attorney, practicing exclusively in the area of Immigration and Naturalization Law, with a special emphasis on green cards through employment and marriage/family and work visas. Ms. Troy provides personalized and responsive service to each of her clients to ensure each client is satisfied with the quality of legal work and attention received.
Ms Troy was admitted to the California State Bar in December 1999. She is admitted to practice before the California Supreme Court and the Federal Ninth Circuit...
![Derek Deake Lim]( "Derek Deake Lim")
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Derek Deake Lim
Fremont, CA Immigration Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfImmigration, Business, Estate Planning and Family
New College of California
Experienced, dedicated and affordable immigration attorney servings the Immigration community for near 20 years. Record of winning case on asylum, VAWA claim, naturalization with criminal background, waivers, and complex family based immigrant visa petitions.
