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Practice Areas

• Business Immigration
• Citizenship
• Consular Law
• Deportation
• Employment Authorization
• Employment Immigration
• Employment Visas
• Family Immigration Law
• Immigration Discrimination
• Investor Visas
• Labor Certifications
• Permanent Visas
• Political Asylum
• Refugee Law
• Visas
• Removal Proceedings
• Religious Visas
• Appellate Practice
• Federal Litigation
• International Litigation
• Litigation
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Asylum
• Diplomatic Immunity
• Immigration Law
• International Law
• International Trade
• Customs Seizures
• Customs Law
• Import and Export Law

Admitted:

• 1994, Michigan and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 2018, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

Law School

• Wayne State University, J.D.

Member

• 2007, American Immigration Lawyers Association (National Member of Border Patrol Liaison Committee 2015-2017, Publication Comm. 2015-2017, and Amicus Comm. 2015-present); 2019, Federal Bar Association - Eastern Dist. Michigan.

Biography:

Michigan Assistant Attorney General, 1997-2006. Guest Lecturer, Wayne State Univ. Law School and University of Detroit-Mercy Law School, 2010-2012 school years. Updated published chapter “Illness, Inadmissibility, Waivers, and other Health-Related Issues” in The Waivers Book: Advanced Issues in Immigration Law Practice, 2nd Ed., published by AILA 2017.  Speaker on various immigration topics at community-organized events of the Detroit Public Schools, Eastern Michigan University, bar associations, and a roving Guatemalan consular office.  Guest speaker for Washtenaw County Bar Association “Bias Awareness Week,” October 2010. Trained Daimler-Chrysler employees on conducting sexual harassment investigations, April 2002. Trained mental health and social workers on matters involving the law and HIV/AIDS at Mercy College, 1998. Legal defense team representing Romanian stowaways regarding their political asylum cases, 1994-1995. Presented published article at Wayne State University and Michigan State Medical Society’s Hutzel Hospital Conference, “How AIDS Law in Michigan Affects Mental Health Practitioners,” 1993.

Languages:

• Spanish

Published Cases

Johnson v Secretary of State, 224 Mich App 158; 568 NW2d 373 (1997); Sanchez v. Lagoudakis II, 458 Mich 704; 581 NW2d 257 (1998) (amicus curiae for Michigan Civil Rights Commission and Michigan Department of Civil Rights); Sharp v. City of Lansing, 464 Mich 792; 629 NW2d 873 (2001) (amicus curiae for Michigan Civil Rights Commission and Michigan Department of Civil Rights); Hamama v Homan, 912 F3d 869 (6th Cir 2018) (amicus curiae for American Immigration Lawyers' Association), Matter of M-S-, 27 I & N Dec 509 (AG 2019) (amicus curiae for American Immigration Lawyers' Association).