services

 

DEPORTATION DEFENSE

Our office represents individuals facing deportation in both detained and non-detained settings. The deportation defense practice includes: 

  • Bond

  • Asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) applications

  • Family-based applications, including adjustment of status and waivers

  • Cancellation of removal applications

  • U nonimmigrant status applications (“U-Visa”), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions and applications

  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

  • Motions to suppress

  • Requests for prosecutorial discretion

  • Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) petitions

  • Citizenship defense

  • Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA)

  • Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications

  • Appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, immigration agency appeals, and other forms of relief

Affirmative action immigration application and petitions

We represent individuals in the following types of cases before immigration agencies:

  • Asylum

  • Family-based applications, including adjustment of status, consular processing, and waivers

  • U nonimmigrant status applications (the “U-visa”) and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions

  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

  • Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)

  • Naturalization and certificate of citizenship applications

  • Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA)

  • Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications

  • Advance Parole Travel Documents

  • Humanitarian Parole

  • Employment Authorization Documents

  • Agency appeals and other immigration benefits

Intersection of immigration and criminal law

In addition to direct representation in immigration courts and agencies of individuals with criminal histories that impact their immigration cases, we consult and collaborate with criminal defense attorneys on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, post conviction relief, and federal immigration crimes, including illegal reentry cases.