Immigration Counsel · Yonkers, New York
Immigration Attorney Serving Yonkers, NY
Yonkers in Westchester County is the fourth-largest city in New York State, with substantial Hispanic (Dominican, Mexican, Salvadoran, Puerto Rican), African-American, Caribbean, and Eastern European populations, and a strong professional commuter base traveling south into Manhattan on Metro-North's Hudson line. Our Yonkers caseload draws from across that mix, and we serve clients remotely as a national U.S. immigration practice with bilingual Spanish document review, secure digital intake, and evening video consultations that fit small-business, hospital, and shift-work schedules along South Broadway, Central Park Avenue, and Yonkers Avenue. The Yonkers docket includes a substantial family-based, humanitarian, and removal-defense volume alongside steady employer-sponsored work.
Family-based filings include I-130 marriage, parent, and sibling petitions; K-1 fiancé visas; I-751 conditional-residency removals; I-601 and I-601A unlawful-presence waivers; consular processing through Santo Domingo, Ciudad Juárez, San Salvador, and other high-volume posts; and naturalization. Humanitarian work in Yonkers includes affirmative asylum and defensive asylum before the immigration court at Federal Plaza, VAWA self-petitions, U-visa petitions for crime victims who have cooperated with Yonkers Police Department or NYPD investigations, T-visa relief for trafficking survivors, TPS renewals for clients from designated countries, Special Immigrant Juvenile filings, and motions to reopen and reconsider before EOIR and the BIA.
For Yonkers professionals at St. John's Riverside Hospital, Saint Joseph's Medical Center, Montefiore Mount Vernon (in the neighboring city), and the surrounding clinical infrastructure, we handle J-1 waivers, H-1B conversions, EB-3 PERM nursing cases, EB-2 NIW physician petitions, and EB-1B outstanding-researcher filings. For Yonkers entrepreneurs running restaurants, retail, contracting, and trades operations along the South Broadway commercial corridor, we file E-2 treaty investor petitions where nationality qualifies and L-1A new-office cases. We serve Yonkers and the surrounding Westchester and Bronx communities of Mount Vernon, The Bronx, New Rochelle, and Hastings-on-Hudson. 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 Yonkers case with the documentation discipline, candor about timelines, and responsiveness that immigration matters deserve.
Immigration Services We Provide in Yonkers
Self-Petition Permanent Residencies
Employment-Based Permanent Residencies
EB-1B Outstanding Professors
For internationally recognized researchers and professors.
Learn more →EB-1C Multinational Managers
For executives and managers of multinational companies.
Learn more →EB-2 PERM
Advanced degree professionals with labor certification.
Learn more →EB-3 Professional
For professionals with bachelor's degrees.
Learn more →EB-3 Skilled Workers
For skilled workers with at least 2 years experience.
Learn more →EB-4 Special Immigrants
Religious workers, broadcasters, and other special categories.
Learn more →Nonimmigrant & Temporary Work Visas
H-1B Specialty Occupation
For professionals in specialty occupations requiring a degree.
Learn more →H-1B Cap Exempt
Universities, research organizations, and nonprofits.
Learn more →L-1A Executive/Manager
Intracompany transferee executives and managers.
Learn more →L-1B Specialized Knowledge
Intracompany transferee with specialized knowledge.
Learn more →O-1A Extraordinary Ability
For extraordinary ability in sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Learn more →O-1B Arts & Entertainment
For extraordinary ability in arts, motion picture, or TV industry.
Learn more →E-1 Treaty Trader
For nationals of treaty countries engaged in substantial trade.
Learn more →E-2 Treaty Investor
For nationals of treaty countries with substantial investments.
Learn more →TN NAFTA Professional
For Canadian and Mexican professionals under USMCA.
Learn more →H-2A Agricultural Workers
Temporary agricultural workers from designated countries.
Learn more →H-2B Non-Agricultural Workers
Temporary non-agricultural seasonal workers.
Learn more →H-3 Trainee Visa
For receiving training not available in home country.
Learn more →P-1 Athletes & Entertainers
Internationally recognized athletes and entertainment groups.
Learn more →P-3 Cultural Performers
Artists and entertainers in culturally unique programs.
Learn more →R-1 Religious Workers
Ministers and religious workers serving in the U.S.
Learn more →Investment & Entrepreneur Visas
Family-Based Immigration
Marriage-Based Green Card
Permanent residency through marriage to a U.S. citizen or LPR.
Learn more →K-1 Fiancé(e) Visa
Visa to bring a foreign fiancé(e) to the U.S. for marriage.
Learn more →Family Petitions (I-130)
Petition for parents, children, spouses, and siblings.
Learn more →Removal of Conditions (I-751)
Convert a 2-year conditional green card to a 10-year card.
Learn more →Humanitarian Relief
Asylum
Protection for those persecuted in their home country.
Learn more →U-Visa Crime Victims
For victims of certain crimes who assist law enforcement.
Learn more →VAWA Self-Petition
For abused spouses, parents, and children of U.S. citizens or LPRs.
Learn more →T-Visa Trafficking
For victims of human trafficking in the United States.
Learn more →TPS Temporary Protected Status
Temporary status for nationals of designated countries.
Learn more →Special Immigrant Juvenile
For minors who cannot be reunited with one or both parents.
Learn more →Convention Against Torture
Protection from removal to countries where torture is likely.
Learn more →Citizenship & Naturalization
Naturalization & Citizenship
N-400 applications to become a U.S. citizen.
Learn more →Medical Disability Exception
N-648 waiver of English and civics testing requirements.
Learn more →Certificate of Citizenship
N-600 certificates for those who acquired citizenship at birth or through parents.
Learn more →Waivers
I-601 Waiver
Waiver of inadmissibility for grounds such as fraud, criminal, or unlawful presence.
Learn more →I-601A Waiver
Provisional unlawful presence waiver for consular processing.
Learn more →I-212 Waiver
Permission to reapply after deportation or removal.
Learn more →I-192 Waiver
Nonimmigrant waiver for inadmissibility for temporary entry.
Learn more →Conrad Waiver
Conrad 30 J-1 waiver for physicians serving underserved areas.
Learn more →J-1 Waiver
Waivers of the 2-year foreign residency requirement.
Learn more →I-131 Travel Document
Reentry permits, refugee travel documents, and advance parole.
Learn more →Litigation
Deportation Defense
Representation in immigration court removal proceedings.
Learn more →Cancellation of Deportation
Defense against removal for long-term residents who qualify.
Learn more →Federal Court Litigation
Appeals and challenges to USCIS, ICE, and consular decisions.
Learn more →Mandamus
Federal court action to compel adjudication of unreasonably delayed cases.
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