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Edward D. Young III
Seguin, TX Immigration Attorney with 43 years of experience
Immigration
Harvard Law School
Highly accomplished Christian, Harvard Law attorney with more than 39 years of experience in administrative, regulatory and public policy law; corporate management, compliance, reorganization; and complex federal litigation. See www.edylaw.com. Extensive, successful experience in discrimination and immigration law, negotiating complex, high-profile mergers; drafting contracts, legislation, and regulations; and obtaining regulatory approvals, particularly for new services. Has earned a reputation as a consensus builder, even in highly contested markets or among political rivals. Successful career characterized by senior executive, legal and public policy positions. Member, District of Columbia Bar. My principal immigration office is on a Texas ranch and...
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Jason S. Finkelman
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Immigration
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Jason Finkelman is an Immigration Attorney working at the forefront of immigration law to assist international individuals with obtaining work visas, lawful permanent residence (“green cards”), and U.S. citizenship. He handles a variety of employment-based and family-based immigration matters for both U.S. and foreign companies, investors, startups, entrepreneurs, skilled workers, executives, families and students. Jason provides cutting-edge immigration legal services to clients across a wide-range of industries including high-tech, semiconductor, healthcare, higher education, energy, oil and gas, import/export, research, video game, as well as professional athletics, music, and entertainment to help them meet their immigration goals. Please...
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Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch
Austin, TX Immigration Attorney
Free ConsultationImmigration
University of Texas - Austin
When I started law school at the University of Texas, I wanted to work in the field of social justice. I decided to enroll in the Immigration Clinic as I knew I would be able to help because I could speak Spanish. My first assignment as a student at the Clinic was to visit the Hutto Immigrant Detention Center. It was here that I met with a detained family of asylum seekers who had a 5 month old baby girl, she was wearing a onesie issued by the prison.
The girl's mom asked me if I would hold...
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Gerardo Menchaca
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Gerardo Menchaca is the lead immigration attorney of Escamilla & Poneck, LLP and is licensed to practice law in every immigration court in the United States. He has dedicated his legal career to helping people from all over the world deal with the complexities of the US immigration system. As an immigration attorney, his job is to help people become part of the best country in the world.
Gerardo is a graduate of St. Mary’s University School of Law, and has an economics degree from Texas State University. Additionally, he is a current member of the American Immigration Lawyers...
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Jessica Lieck
Austin, TX Immigration Attorney
Free ConsultationImmigration
Texas Tech University School of Law
Jessica graduated summa cum laude from Texas State with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Criminal Justice. She then attended Texas Tech University School of Law and received her Doctor of Jurisprudence with a concentration in Criminal Law and Innocence. Jessica attended Texas Tech University School of Law and received her Doctor of Jurisprudence with a concentration in Criminal Law and Innocence. While in law school Jessica was two-time President of the Criminal Law Association, President of Tech National Lawyers Guild, an Advisor on the Diversity Advisory Board, a research assistant, served in the Student...
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Elissa I. Henry
Round Rock, TX Immigration Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Immigration
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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Lindsay G Gray
Austin, TX Immigration Attorney with 15 years of experience
Immigration
University of Denver
Lindsay Gray practices immigration law in Austin, TX. She primarily handles humanitarian immigration cases, include family-based petitions, adjustment of status, crime victim visas, VAWA petitions, asylum applications, removal defense, waivers, and appeals.
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Justin Michael Jackson
Round Rock, TX Immigration Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Immigration and Bankruptcy
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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Juan Castro
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Immigration
St. Mary's University School of Law
I am passionate about providing my clients with dedicated representation and with providing the right solutions for their immigration needs. Whether the case is about attaining citizenship, different types of visas, appeals, and more, I will work with you through the entire process from start to finish.
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Julie Sparks
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 20 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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Loc Tan Dang
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Immigration and Bankruptcy
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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Michael Murray
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Immigration
St. Thomas University School of Law
Michael G. Murray, Esq. is a Miami native, and a cum laude graduate of the University of Florida. He earned his Masters Degree from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and his J.D. from St.Thomas School of Law in Miami, Florida. While in law school, Mr. Murray received the Book Award in Criminal Procedure, Trial Advocacy, Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating, and the Immigration Law Clinic, where his thesis pertained to criminal waivers for aliens convicted of violent crimes. Mr. Murray has extensive experience in immigration law, representing clients seeking criminal waivers, adjustment of status, cancellation of removal, asylum, and naturalization....
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Alfredo Lozano
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 20 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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Luis Manuel Paredes Jr
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Immigration, Bankruptcy and Real Estate
Texas Tech University School of Law
Manuel Paredes Law Firm, PLLC is a general law practice focusing on immigration, real estate, and bankruptcy matters.
The firm handles immigration matters such as naturalization (U.S. Citizenship), legal permanent residency (Green Card), employment authorization documents (Work Permit) and travel documents, DACA, renewal applications, and more.
We file chapter 7 & chapter 13 bankruptcies for clients over-whelmed by credit card, medical, and other debt. In many instances, we are able file emergency bankruptcy petitions to stop foreclosure and repossessions.
We represent buyers and sellers in residential & commercial real estate transactions involving investment properties, owner financing, wraparound loans, and more.
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Aaron Samuel Haas
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Immigration
Harvard Law School
We have four values we bring to every case we work on:
EXCELLENCE: We have worked on hundreds of cases in all areas of immigration law. We are capable of handling the most complex cases while maintaining a small firm personal touch.
INTEGRITY: We believe that ethics and integrity are not just professional goals; they are personal values that we bring to everything we do.
VALUE: We believe that our services should be affordable to everybody because everybody deserves a chance to achieve their goals. We work with our clients and offer payment plans to ensure that our services are affordable to all.
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Christopher Peng
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration and Business
St. Mary's University School of Law
The Law Office of Christopher Peng - we are a San Antonio based, full service law office that specializes in immigration and criminal law. With extensive big firm experience, we are able to offer you personal and dedicated service. I never take for granted any opportunity I get to provide my services, and always remember I serve my clients’ best interests. Our office can help with all immigration issues ranging from family/residency cases, deportation and citizenship, to complex investment / employment based visas. We also have extensive experience in the Criminal Defense field here in Bexar...
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Pelin Uzay
Leander, TX Immigration Attorney with 3 years of experience
Immigration and Business
Rutgers University - Newark
Pelin Uzay is a solo practitioner and the founding attorney at Uzay Law, PLLC, where she provides legal services in contracts and family-based immigration. She also previously advised clients on employment-based immigration matters. Before practicing law, Pelin worked as a producer and film consultant in New York for almost two decades.
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Vi Nanthaveth
Austin, TX Immigration Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Southern University Law Center
Nanthaveth & Associates, PLLC is a trusted immigration law firm located in Austin, Texas. Immigration law experts at Nanthaveth and Associates are prepared to provide legal counsel for businesses, families and individuals in the areas of green cards, adjustment of status, work visas and investor visa applications, family sponsored immigration, employer compliance, self-petitions, permanent residence, naturalization, waivers, appeals, foreign adoptions, mediation and more.
Ms. Nanthaveth graduated from Louisiana State University in 1999 with a BA in Mass Communications. She then received her Master’s degree in Photojournalism in 2000 from Southern University. After working as a news anchor and reporter for a...
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Snigdha Ghoshal
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 9 years of experience
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Joseph Krebs Muller
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
The George Washington University Law School
Joseph Muller has years of immigration legal experience and is based in Austin, Texas. Attorney Muller has handled a wide range of immigration cases and has served thousands of clients in the following types of benefits:
Applications for U.S. Citizenship, naturalization, and U.S. Passports
Green card applications and I-485 adjustment of status applications
Consular processing for family seeking green cards from outside the U.S.
Benefits for victims of abuse and crime, such as VAWA, U-Visa, and T-Visa applications
Asylum applications before USCIS and in immigration court
Defense against deportation
Release from immigration detention with bond hearings and parole
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Work permits
Litigation in federal court for...
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Griselda Ponce
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Immigration
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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Fernando Daniel Gireud
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
St. Mary's University School of Law
Fernando D. Gireud was born in El Paso, Texas, and graduated from Coronado High School in 2002. He attended the University of Texas – Austin where he majored in Computer Science and graduated in 2007. Afterwards, Fernando attended law school at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas where he graduated with his J.D. in 2010.
Shortly thereafter, Fernando moved back to his hometown of El Paso, Texas, where he worked for the Domestic Relations Office of El Paso County where he acted as friend of the court and worked on child support enforcement cases. In March 2012,...
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Fernanda Inegol
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer
Free ConsultationImmigration
Universidad Anahuac Norte
Fernanda Inegol is originally from Mexico City. She moved to Texas shortly after graduating from Anahuac University School of Law to pursue an LLM Master of Laws Degree from The University of Texas at Austin.
Fernanda moved to San Antonio in 2015 and worked for a local Law Firm focusing on Family and Immigration Law before opening her own practice.
Her passion for law, specially immigration law, comes from being an immigrant herself. She and her husband came to the United States at a very young age and dealt with the immigration process firsthand.
She has been living in San Antonio, TX for...
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Carlos G. Quintana
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
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
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 10 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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Anne Elizabeth Ohlrich
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Immigration
St. Mary's University School of Law
After graduating from St. Mary's University School of Law and being licensed as an attorney in May of 1998, Anne Ohlrich was commissioned as a Foreign Service Officer in January 1999. Anne served as a with the U.S. Department of State from 1999 to 2005 and was assigned to posts in London (Chief of the Visa Coordination Unit and Dept. Chief of the Immigration Visa Section), Brazil (Chief of the Consular Section), and Ciudad Juarez (Dept. Chief of Non-Immigrant Visa Unit) as well as the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in Washington D.C. Anne has...
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Ms. Sylvia Ann Cavazos
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 27 years of experience
(210) 682-8800
The Milam Building
115 E. Travis Street, Suite 1711
San Antonio, TX 78205
Free ConsultationImmigration
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Attorney Sylvia A. Cavazos is a former prosecutor and worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Bexar county for 10 years. She has extensive criminal trial experience in Felony and Misdemeanor cases including 1st Degree Aggravated Felonies. Ms. Cavazos opened up her private law office in 2007. She is a highly motivated and aggressive attorney who knows the law and the criminal justice system. Ms. Cavazos is one of the top criminal lawyers in San Antonio and surrounding counties. She also practices in Federal Court in the Western District of Texas and also has federal...
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Kerry S. Alleyne Simmons
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration and Bankruptcy
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Representing small business owners and individuals in Texas for over 13 years.
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Eliana Maruri
Austin, TX Immigration Attorney
Immigration
South Texas College of Law
I was born and raised in Austin, Texas where my parents set roots from Mexico. I attended the Liberal Arts Academy at the former Johnston High School in East Austin and went on to double major in journalism and government at UT Austin. During my studies at UT, I had the privilege of interning at NBC Mexico/ Telemundo in Mexico City. I also studied abroad in Paris for a semester, where I honed my French language skills. After my undergraduate studies, I worked for a national non-profit organization and later enrolled in law school. Part of my studies took me...
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Bernadette Dela Cruz
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Immigration
Texas Tech University School of Law
Welcome to my Justia profile! I have always felt the practice of law should first be the practice of authentically building relationships and understanding the needs of others.
I want to be more than your attorney. I strive to be a trusted confidant who can lead you through the turbulence and emotional strain of the immigration world. Whether you are wanting to get your spouse a green card or you run an organization in desperate need of workers, I will answer your questions with utmost honesty and ensure you have as smooth of an experience as possible. Lawyers aren't always hired...
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Leonardo Ruben De La Garza
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Immigration
Texas Tech University School of Law
My name is Leonardo De La Garza, but please call me Leo. I founded De La Garza Law, PLLC, to help protect and unite families who feel less and less secure in this anti-immigrant political world. I understand that the immigration process can be the most challenging and emotionally draining process a person will ever undergo. It is worth having the help of an experienced immigration attorney to get it right the first time.
As the son of a Mexican immigrant father and Chicana mother, I believe representing immigrants and their families is a way to give back to the...
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Iris A. Albizu
Austin, TX Immigration Attorney with 19 years of experience
Accomplished attorney with a strong background in civil litigation.
Licensed to practice in Puerto Rico State Courts.
Native Spanish speaker
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Jeremiah David Williams
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Sablatura & Williams PLLC is a legal office committed to helping residents of Austin find solutions to their various legal matters. With an office in Round Rock and an office in Austin, the attorneys strive to make their services as easily accessible to their clients as possible. The team focuses their practice on the areas of criminal defense, family law, immigration law, and personal injury law, and they understand that dealing with matters in these fields can be some of the most complicated legal issues to have to work through. The attorneys pride themselves on focusing on the needs of...
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Shannon Roberta Salmon-Haas
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
St. Mary's University School of Law
She graduated from St. Mary’s School of Law in 2006. In law school, she was the president of the Christian Legal Society and was a student-attorney at the Criminal Law Clinic. She also participated in the Border Clinic, in which she would travel to the border area to help people with legal problems. She practices before the juvenile, county and district criminal courts in Bexar County, and surrounding counties, including Comal, Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Uvalde, Medina, Atascosa, Wilson, Kerr, Gonzales and other counties in South Texas. She is licensed to practice in federal court in the U.S. District Court,...
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Kristen Kalani Hawks
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Immigration and Employment
The University of Texas School of Law
Kalani Hawks Villafranca practices U.S. immigration law because she believes everyone deserves to feel like they belong in their home and with their families. She loves helping her clients live the life they want to live, wherever they want to live, with the people who matter most to them.
Abogada Kalani has over a decade of experience as an attorney and for several years was the managing attorney for the Texas Here to Stay/Texas No Nos Vamos coalition. She helped bring free legal clinics to communities throughout Texas and provided guidance to thousands of immigrants seeking to renew their DACA...
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Pete Singh
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 7 years of experience
(210) 672-0404
3201 Cherry Ridge Street, Suite A-107
San Antonio, TX 78230
Immigration, Business and Real Estate
Florida Coastal School of Law
Family First! Fighting to keep families together!
Attorney Singh belongs to a family of immigrants, who all migrated to this great nation of ours with the American dream in mind and worked hard day and night and prioritized education above all.
Mr. Singh shares the same work ethic and beliefs as many of us fellow immigrants. He believes in hard work and shares the vision that anything is possible with consistent dedication and perseverance.
Mr. Singh finished his Bachelors degree from California State University, with a triple major in Finance, Marketing & International business. Later,he attended law school and completed the dual degree,...
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Genaro Retta Cortez
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 21 years of experience
(210) 733-7575
730 West Hildebrand Avenue
Suite 2
San Antonio, TX 78212
Free ConsultationImmigration, Administrative, Insurance Claims and White Collar Crime
Texas Tech University School of Law
Hello. I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. I am a graduate of Thomas Edison High School (c/o 1995), UT at Austin (c/o 1999), and TTU Law (c/o 2002). I became a licensed attorney on May 5, 2003.
My practice area focuses on State and Federal Criminal Defense. I have represented clients charged with major drug-trafficking offenses, RICO violations, federal firearms offenses.
My goal in every case is to provide each client with honest and objective advice. Most importantly, I will do everything legally and ethically possible to obtain the goals...
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Rolando Gutierrez
San Antonio, TX Immigration Attorney with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
The team of immigration attorneys at the Gutierrez Law Firm offers service in all areas of the law from employment visas, family based petitions and permanent visas like EB-5 and EB-1(c) to temporary investment visas.
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Nicholas D Gordon
San Antonio, TX Immigration Lawyer with 14 years of experience
800 Dolorosa Street
Suite 100
San Antonio, TX 78207
Immigration
George Mason University School of Law
Nicholas joined DMCA in January 2012 after practicing immigration and family law in the Washington, D.C. metro area for a couple of years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Utah State University where he graduated summa cum laude and was honored as the valedictorian of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. He earned his law degree from George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. As a student, Nicholas served as the Senior Articles Editor for the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy and co-founded and served as president of the law school’s student chapter of...
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Mark K Kinzler
Austin, TX Immigration Lawyer with 19 years of experience
807 Brazos St., Suite 720
Austin, TX 78701
Immigration
Lewis & Clark Law School
Since 2005, attorney Mark Kinzler has successfully assisted hundreds of immigrants and their families in securing the American dream. Mr. Kinzler has represented and advised clients in a wide variety of immigration-related matters, both as private practice attorney and as the director of a major Austin-area non-profit immigration services program. He has been a tireless advocate for his clients. Mr. Kinzler has also been a staunch advocate for the rights of immigrants at both the local and national level by participating in and organizing lobbying efforts to put a stop to the harsh and inhumane effects of many current U.S....