Immigration Attorney Serving Staten Island, NY

Staten Island has a distinct immigration profile shaped by its large Italian-American, Liberian, Sri Lankan, Russian, and Mexican communities, and our Staten Island caseload draws from across that mix. We are a national U.S. immigration practice that handles Staten Island matters remotely, with secure document exchange and video consultations so clients in St. George, Stapleton, New Brighton, Tottenville, and the South Shore can complete petitions without traveling to a downtown office. The Staten Island docket is heavy on family-based work — I-130 marriage and parent petitions, K-1 fiancé visas, I-751 conditional-residency removals, I-601A provisional waivers, and naturalization.

For Staten Island professionals — doctors at Staten Island University Hospital and Richmond University Medical Center, NYPD and FDNY family members, teachers, and engineers commuting to Manhattan via the ferry or express bus — we handle H-1B sponsorship, EB-2 PERM and EB-3 PERM green cards, EB-2 NIW self-petitions, and EB-1B outstanding-researcher cases when the academic record supports it. We also file J-1 waivers for medical residents and fellows whose service obligation falls in a designated underserved area.

Staten Island has a large humanitarian docket as well — asylum and withholding of removal for clients from West Africa, Central America, and South Asia; VAWA self-petitions for survivors of abuse; U-visas for victims of qualifying crimes; T-visas for trafficking survivors; and TPS renewals for clients from designated countries. Staten Island business owners running restaurants, contracting firms, and retail operations come to us for E-2 treaty investor cases where their nationality qualifies, and for L-1A new-office petitions when an overseas company is expanding U.S. operations. We serve all of Staten Island, with regular handoffs across the Verrazzano-Narrows to our Brooklyn and Manhattan caseload. Whether the matter is a self-petitioned green card built on a record of research, art, business, or athletics, an employer-sponsored case that requires tight coordination with HR and counsel, a family reunification petition filed alongside consular processing, or a humanitarian or removal-defense matter where the stakes are measured in years and in family separation, we approach every Staten Island case with the documentation discipline, candor about timelines, and responsiveness that immigration matters deserve.