Immigration Attorney Serving Arlington, VA

Arlington sits at the doorstep of the nation's capital, and its residents reflect that proximity — researchers at Rosslyn think tanks, engineers along the Ballston corridor, physicians at Virginia Hospital Center, and entrepreneurs building companies in Crystal City and Pentagon City. For many of them, the question of immigration status is inseparable from the work they came here to do. Our firm represents these professionals and their families across the full range of U.S. immigration matters: self-petitioned EB-1A and EB-2 NIW green cards, H-1B and O-1 visas, L-1 intracompany transfers, and the EB-1C and EB-2 PERM pathways that follow. For founders we also file E-2 treaty investor petitions and International Entrepreneur Parole where the funding round and the qualified-investor profile line up.

Arlington's Amazon HQ2 build-out has reshaped our practice as well. We regularly advise HQ2 hires on H-1B transfers, on switching from cap-exempt postdoc status to a corporate role, and on stacking H-1B time with a parallel EB-1A or EB-2 NIW so the green card does not depend on the employer alone. We also represent the Pentagon-area defense contractor workforce, where security clearance timing and travel constraints make even a routine visa stamping appointment more delicate than it looks. For cleared technical staff, we plan naturalization filings around the residency clock so an unexpected long deployment overseas does not reset the five-year window.

Arlington families come to us for marriage-based green cards, I-751 petitions, naturalization, and K-1 fiancé visas, as well as asylum, U-visa, and VAWA matters where confidentiality and trauma-informed handling are critical. Because Arlington is a short Metro ride from the USCIS field office, the Arlington Asylum Office, and the Arlington Immigration Court at the Skyline complex, clients here often need counsel who can move quickly across agencies — filing a motion at one window in the morning and appearing at a master calendar hearing in the afternoon. We also handle federal court mandamus actions in the Eastern District of Virginia when a case has stalled past every reasonable USCIS processing-time benchmark. We serve all of Arlington and the surrounding communities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Washington DC, and Fairfax.