My interest in Immigration and Nationality Law was born out of volunteer help provided to the 100s of thousands of Central American Refugees flooding Los Angeles during the 1980s. During this time, I worked as a union carpenter, volunteering at night with legal aid construction projects and fund raising, until I decided to go to law school, inspired by a three week trip to El Salvador. I was among numerous church persons from across the United States on a purely humanitarian mission to accompany tens of thousands of displaced refugees, as they returned to their bombed out villages in the Department of Chaletenango, El Salvador, following six years of being displaced in United Nation’s run refugee camp at Mesa Grande, Honduras.
After returning to the United States from this life changing journey, I attended law school at the State University of New York, Buffalo Law School. I won my first asylum case for an Iranian student serviced by my law school clinic. I was also employed by VIVE: an organization of global refugees to assist with security concerns at a refugee shelter, and was also employed by Canadian Immigration Counsel, assisting in the preparation of asylum applications for Canadian refugee status, who resided temporarily at VIVE’s shelter. After graduating from Law School, I became a member of the New York Bar, and at the close of 1992, I took a job as the Director of the Immigration Program of Lutheran Social Ministries of the Southwest, providing services to indigent immigrants in the city. Funding for the project came to an end in 1994, and I started my own practice, becoming a member of the Nevada Bar as well.
Since opening my offices at the onset of 1995, I have assisted over four thousand families to immigrate, have won a significant number of federal cases, have represented several hundreds of persons in immigration court, helped several hundred professional employees secure durable working status, and have helped hundreds of investors call America home. My reputation persists as a strong, knowledgeable, diligent and passionate advocate, with an extraordinary ratio of success in the representation of my clients, particularly involving difficult cases, [some] of which have been published by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Now that you know me, allow me the pleasure and privilege of getting to know and take care of you, and to provide your case, which is YOUR LIFE, the kind of comprehensive review necessary to take care of your needs. Give my office a call and arrange a consultation at (702) 858-5940.
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