Immigration Attorney Serving Washington DC

Washington DC is the immigration capital of the United States in more than the bureaucratic sense. The city hosts every embassy, every consular section that issues U.S.-bound visas indirectly through coordination with State, and the headquarters of every federal agency that touches an immigration filing. Our DC clients reflect that — diplomats at the World Bank and IMF, scholars at the Brookings Institution and Carnegie Endowment, journalists at international bureaus, attorneys at firms along K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, and physicians at George Washington, Georgetown, and the Children's National hospitals. We represent these clients across the full range of immigration matters: EB-1A and EB-2 NIW self-petitions, H-1B and O-1 visas, L-1A and EB-1C transfers, J-1 waivers including Conrad 30 and HHS placements, and family-based filings for spouses, parents, and siblings.

DC's status as the seat of federal immigration enforcement and adjudication also means our DC clients sometimes face the harder side of the system. We handle deportation defense in the Arlington and Baltimore immigration courts, federal court litigation challenging USCIS and ICE decisions, mandamus actions to compel adjudication of unreasonably delayed cases, and habeas petitions where a client is in ICE custody. The Board of Immigration Appeals, the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the General Counsel are all within a few blocks of each other in our city, and we work in proximity to them.

DC families also come to us for the personal side of immigration — marriage-based green cards, K-1 fiancé visas, I-751 petitions to remove conditions, asylum, U-visa and VAWA filings, and naturalization. We serve every neighborhood of Washington DC — from Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom, and Georgetown to Petworth, Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, Anacostia, and Brookland — and our attorneys are comfortable working in English, Spanish, and through certified interpreters for clients whose preferred language is something else.