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23 distinguished immigration law attorneys in New York, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Alice Antonovsky

Alice Antonovsky

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

626 Sheepshead Bay Road, Suite 630, Brooklyn, NY 11224

Law Offices of Alice Antonovsky is a full service law firm that offers a wide range of legal services. We provide first-class legal counsel to individuals, families, entrepreneurs and private businesses. The firm prides itself on providing personal attention to each and every client, advising them of the status of their case every step of the way. This focused approach allows the firm to provide intelligent, efficient and cost-effective counsel that is integral to the practice of law. Law Offices of Alice Antonovsky strives to provide you with outstanding legal representation. We understand that legal matters can be intimidating and that is why we make it our goal to keep you informed and comfortable during the entire process.

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Chaka Benjamin

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

85 Broad Street, Floor 18, New York, NY 10004

With over 16 years of experience, specializing in employment-based immigration law, Chaka has successfully filed complex multi-faceted petitions for world renowned artists, outstanding professors and researchers, internationally acclaimed scientists, multinational managers/executives of repute, and innovative entrepreneurs, among others. Passionate about his practice, Chaka derives great personal satisfaction from working with clients who are the best in the world at what they do, which makes his work “always engaging and supremely intriguing.” A proud Bison, Chaka graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in International Business and Finance, as well as a Juris Doctor degree. He is also a member of the New York State Bar and American Immigration Lawyers Association.

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David Molot

David Molot

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

880 3rd Ave, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022

David’s full-service firm in NY offers a wide range of services to business and individual clients. We focus exclusively on all immigration practice areas, so that the office remains abreast of all current legal trends and developments. Our areas of expertise include immigration law, family law, bankruptcy law, criminal defense, and civil litigation. We will work collaboratively to address any overlapping legal issues that you may face. We are prepared to fight for your best interests and achieve optimal results, through settlement or by verdict. We do not make any false promises or too good to be true expectations to our Clients, but it is a 100% guarantee that we will help our clients legally and ethically deal with their immigration concerns. Our lawyers are verified and trusted and have been representing individuals and businesses for many years already. For immigration, we service the entire United States, as well as the State of New York, including the areas of Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, and Long Island.

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Elizabeth Cordoba

Immigration Law

139 Post Ave, Westbury, NY 11590

Elizabeth Cordoba is an immigration attorney with Cordoba Law Group in Westbury, New York. Deportation cases, asylum, petitions, waivers and citizenship are among the matters named on her Spanish-language professional page. She speaks both Spanish and English. Her Super Lawyers profile also lists family law as a practice area. Cordoba graduated from the City University of New York School of Law in 2011 and has held a New York law license since 2012. Her Westbury office occupies the first floor at 139 Post Avenue. Cordoba Law Group lists that address as its Long Island location and has a Queens office at 93-20A Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights. The firm's published immigration services cover family and employment matters. Marriage-based green cards, fiancé visas and sponsorship are part of its family immigration offerings; work visas and employer-sponsored petitions appear in its employment practice. For businesses, the firm also lists assistance with I-9 compliance and immigration policies. Its business and investor visa services address entrepreneurs, investors and corporations, with E-2, L-1 and EB-5 visas specifically named on its website. Other services described by Cordoba Law Group concern people facing removal proceedings or seeking humanitarian relief. The firm lists both deportation defense and asylum representation in that part of its practice. It also assists lawful permanent residents with naturalization, a separate service described under citizenship on the firm's website.

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Elsa Ayoub

Elsa Ayoub

Distinguished Lawyer

Immigration Law

230 Park Avenue, 3rd Fl West, New York, NY 10169-0005

I work with leaders of healthcare organizations and their foreign national employees in all phases of the immigration process, helping multinational corporations and providers find the best short and long-term visa strategies for their specific needs. My team and I are committed to delivering personalized and effective representation to every client. Our mission is to help our clients achieve their immigration goals quickly and ethically while keeping them informed throughout the process. We are the law firm healthcare leaders come to when other law firms can’t or won’t help. With creativity, resourcefulness, and dedication, we devise effective solutions tailored to your unique needs.

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Eric Okyere Darko

Eric Okyere Darko

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

299 BROADWAY, SUITE 607, NEW YORK, NY 10007

Eric Okyere Darko, Esq., was educated in Ghana, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Ghana, Legon, with Honors, in 1991, and a Barrister-at-Law Degree from the Ghana School of Law in 1994. He then migrated to the United States where he received a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from Long Island University, New York in 1998 and a Master’s Degree in Law and Letters (LL.M.) specializing in International Business and Trade Law from Fordham University School of Law, New York in 2001. He is licensed to practice law in Ghana as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court since August 31, 1994, and was admitted to practice law in all the courts of the State of New York and all Immigration Courts in the United States in October, 2001. Attorney Eric O. Darko has extensive litigation experience in immigration hearings throughout the United States. He also represents clients in the Supreme Courts of New York (the courts of first instance in New York State) in various legal matters including contested divorces, child/spousal support, contracts and insurance. He appears frequently in Family Court proceedings in New York. In addition, Lawyer Darko has considerable international experience, working with the International Center for Transnational Justice (ICTJ) for almost five years, specializing in international human rights work. During his work at the ICTJ, he assisted the Ghana Truth and Reconciliation Commission in their work and final report as an expert, and his contribution was duly acknowledged in the final report produced by the Commission. As a scholar at Fordham Law School, , Lawyer Darko helped to coordinate the Fordham University School of Law Crowley Program’s Ghana report on women inheritance rights titled “Promise Unfulfilled: Law, Culture and Women’s Inheritance Rights in Ghana published in 25 Fordham Int’l L.J. 259 (2001). He also served as a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on International Human Rights, and participated in writing their Interrogation Report titled Human Rights Standards applicable to the United States’ Interrogation of Detainees and other publications of the Association during my tenure of 2002 to 2003.

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Gunjan Rekhi

Gunjan Rekhi

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

30 Wall Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10005

Ms. Gunjan Rekhi is the founder and principal Attorney of Rekhi Law Offices, located in New York City. Ms. Rekhi completed her Master’s of Law degree (LL.M.) from New York University (NYU) School of Law. She has a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) from Campus Law Center, and a Bachelor of Economics degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi, India. Ms. Rekhi is admitted to practice in the State of New York. She is also a member of several legal and professional organizations, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). Ms. Rekhi has been practicing immigration law for over a decade and has represented large corporate clients, startups and individuals on a full range of employment and family-based immigration matters. Ms. Rekhi strongly believes in the tenets of integrity and transparency and has built strong reputation of her firm amongst the corporate clientele as a reliable and one stop shop for their immigration needs.

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Jose Perez

Immigration Law

659 West Onondaga Street, Upper Floor, Syracuse, NY 13204

Jose is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Venezuela. Jose began his career as an attorney in Venezuela. Jose’s outstanding Venezuelan practice was recognized several times by the Miranda State Bar Association, which awarded him with honors in three different years. In 2002, Jose decided to come to the United States to further develop himself academically and professionally. In 2004, Jose was admitted to Syracuse University College of Law, where he graduated cum laude. During law school, Jose clerked for a US District Court in Florida. Jose joined the Smith Sovik law firm in 2007. Since joining the firm, Jose was involved in all areas of litigation. Jose has been and is a member of the Latin American Law Student Association; Hispanic National Bar Association; Black Law Student Association; DRI; American Bar Association; New Jersey State Bar; New York State Bar; Law Students in Action Project-Spanish Translation and Interpretation Assistance Team; Onondaga County Bar Association; AILA, among others. In 2012, Jose decided to open his new and independent law firm. After opening the Law Offices of Jose Perez, Jose has been involved in all areas of litigation, including construction, labor and employment, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents, workers’ compensation, SSI/SSD, and immigration. Jose has been a speaker/panelist at numerous events dealing with his legal practice, Workers’ Compensation, and immigration issues. Jose also has a “Know-Your-Rights” column in the CNY Latino newspaper.

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Lenni Benson

Immigration Law

185 W Broadway, New York, NY 10013, USA

Lenni B. Benson has been teaching and writing in the field of immigration law since 1994. She is the Distinguished Chair of Immigration and Human Rights Law at New York Law School. She founded the Safe Passage Project, which recruits, trains, and mentors attorneys to assist unaccompanied youth who are facing deportation. Safe Passage Project began as an NYLS pro bono project/clinic and is now a nonprofit with a staff of over 40 professionals housed at NYLS that partners with the School’s clinic. With more than 500 pro bono attorneys, Safe Passage Project is currently assisting over 1,000 unaccompanied minors in New York. Professor Benson has won national awards for her pro bono leadership and excellence in immigration teaching. She has served as a member of several national task forces on the needs of migrant youth and has been a speaker for the federal government at national trainings. She also served as one of the founding steering committee members of the American Immigration Representation Project, formed in 2017, to expand pro bono representation of detained immigrants. In 2012, she completed, with Russell Wheeler, a study of the immigration courts for the federal government’s Administrative Conference of the United States. She served as the chair of the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 2012 to the end of 2014. Professor Benson is an emeritus trustee of the American Immigration Law Foundation (now the American Immigration Council), is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and served on the board of the Center for Human and Constitutional Rights. Her co-authored book Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies was published by LexisNexis in 2013 and a new edition was issued in December of 2019 by Carolina Academic Press. In addition to teaching at NYLS, she has also served as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. Most recently, Professor Benson edited an academic volume of international essays with Professor Mary Crock of the University of Sydney entitled Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice. She will prepare a new book for Elgar Press in its Advanced Legal Studies Series on U.S. Immigration Law that is expected to be published in early 2021. Professor Benson teaches Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and several advanced seminars ranging from asylum to business immigration.

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Matthew D. Goldsmith

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

14 Penn Plaza, Suite 1414, New York, NY 10122

Matthew D. Goldsmith received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 2005. Mr. Goldsmith is active in all phases of immigration and nationality law, focusing primarily on employment based immigration. He is admitted to practice as an attorney in New York and is a member of the American Bar Association. He is also an active member of AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) where he is a member of the Department of Labor Committee, the Young Lawyers Division Committee and the Media Committee.

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Melinda. A. Rubin

Immigration Law

20 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901

Melinda Rubin merged her immigration firm with Zwaik, Gilbert & Associates in February of 2015. She is a native Long Islander who grew up in Sag Harbor. At age 5 she decided she could help people by being a lawyer and she has been interrogating people since. She is a 1980 graduate of Tuller School, an Episcopal private school that was in Sag Harbor, NY. She graduated in 1984 from Hofstra University with Honors in Political Science and in addition to awards for leadership she was also a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Honor Society. She attended Hofstra Law for a year but decided to take time off and worked doing accounting work at different companies including several Wall Street Firms. The need to help people resurfaced during the late 1980’s and in 1988, when she moved to California to attend Whittier Law School in Los Angeles. While there she graded onto Law Review and was in the top 5% of her class. She transferred to the University of Maryland in 1990 and graduated from there in 1992 where she majored in environmental law. That administrative law background became handy when she shifted her focus to immigration law in 1995. She has been a member of the NYS Bar since 1993. Melinda directed her own practice from 1995 until 2015, practicing immigration, criminal and real estate law. In 2015, her firm merged with Zwaik, Gilbert and Associates and she is now part of a group of lawyers dedicated to ensuring their clients receive the best advice and best service possible. Her areas of expertise include, but are not limited to criminal immigration, asylum, SIJ and asylum for children. Melinda works out of our Hampton Bays office and looks forward to meeting and working with you to develop the best strategy to ensure you win your case. Melinda has been a proud member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1996.

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Natalya Friss

Immigration Law

11 Broadway suite 615, New York, NY 10004, USA

Natalya Friss is the founding attorney of Friss Law Firm, P.C., in New York City. Her firm describes work in family law, immigration and civil litigation. Individuals and businesses are both addressed in the firm’s civil litigation services. Its published description names business-related, personal and real estate litigation, with breach of contract as an example of a civil dispute. In family matters, the firm offers representation in contested and uncontested divorces. Negotiating an agreement is one part of that work; representation in contested proceedings and disputes over marital property is another. Child support and alimony also appear on its service list. For parents, the firm describes negotiating arrangements for custody and visitation. Its work is not limited to the end of a marriage: prenuptial agreement drafting is offered to address assets and financial interests. The firm’s immigration services cover asylum, family-based immigration, nonimmigrant visas, and citizenship and naturalization. Its immigration page addresses several circumstances, from seeking a visa to enter the United States to pursuing permanent residence or applying for citizenship as a permanent resident. Family sponsorship receives a separate discussion. That section identifies U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents as potential sponsors of certain relatives, naming spouses, parents, children and siblings. These immigration services, like the family and civil litigation offerings, are described as work of Friss Law Firm, P.C.

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Pallvi Babbar

Pallvi Babbar

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

3601 Hempstead Turnpike, Suite 502, Levittown, NY 11756

Pallvi Babbar is the founder of Babbar & Associates P.C., a firm in Levittown, New York, and Associate Director of Academic Success at New York Law School. She established the general practice firm in 2016 and joined the law school in 2023. Her education preceded work in several legal settings. Babbar earned her B.A. from Long Island University in 2009, graduating magna cum laude, and received her J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 2012. Before founding her firm, she held associate positions at the Office of Kenneth S. Pelsinger LLC and The Law Office of J. Stewart Moore P.C. Her work at the Pelsinger office concerned real estate, with a particular focus on foreclosures. At the Moore office in Suffolk County, she worked in criminal defense. She also served as a law clerk to Justice Michele M. Woodard, working on civil litigation. Babbar has discussed immigration developments on television. Her firm records an appearance on ABC7’s Tiempo with Joe Torres addressing the DACA 2020 update. Beyond those professional activities, her law school profile describes volunteer commitments to organizations, bar associations, and schools, as well as mentoring students interested in entering the legal system. The profile also identifies her service on a legal panel for the Consulate General of India in New York City.

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Pertinderjit Hora

Distinguished Lawyer

Immigration Law

105-14 Jamaica Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11418

Pertinderjit Kaur Hora is an immigration attorney in Richmond Hill, New York, and the founder and principal attorney of PKH Law Group. Her work has taken her into immigration courts and before federal agencies nationwide, representing individuals and families as well as companies. PKH Law Group describes that experience as spanning more than ten years. Among the family immigration matters Hora has handled are adjustment of status and waivers. Employment and business matters have included PERM and investor categories. She has also worked on asylum, other humanitarian relief and removal defense, with representation before EOIR and USCIS included in her practice. Hora holds a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School; at Binghamton University, her undergraduate subjects were biology and sociology. She also earned a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her firm biography identifies her as a Teach For America fellow and describes more than a decade of service in underserved communities in Texas, Chicago and New York. It also notes that she speaks multiple languages. The firm she leads concentrates on family, business and humanitarian immigration. PKH Law Group also describes an institutional side to its work: immigration law support for government agencies and institutional partners, including the capacity to provide legal services on a contract basis under Hora’s leadership.

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Reza Pourmohammadi

Immigration Law

227 West 29th Street, Suite 6R, New York, NY 10001

Reza Pourmohammadi is the founder and managing partner of the boutique immigration law practice, Reza Pourmohammadi, P.C., in New York. The firm’s areas of practice include employment-based visas (O, H, L, P, TN, and E) and immigrant categories (EB, labor certification, and family-based petitions). Reza Pourmohammadi represents artists, designers, writers, creatives, academics, and entrepreneurs, spanning across several industries, including fashion, advertising, music, film, television, publishing, entertainment, architecture, interior design, culinary, wellness, academia, business, and technology, among others. He is admitted to the bar of the State of New York, and holds a Juris Doctorate (2001) from New York Law School and a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, in Political Science (1996) from Hunter College, The City University of New York. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. www.linkedin.com/in/rezapourmohammadi

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Immigration Law

27 Admiralty Loop, Staten Island, NY 10309

The Law Offices of Steven Balson-Cohen Esq. P.C. are committed to providing aggressive representation in a cost effective manner. Clients are advised on litigation options including mediation, arbitration, motion practice and trials. As these law offices are a full service firm the client can be assured that Mr. Balson-Cohen will stay with the case through and including any appeal. Most importantly Mr. Balson-Cohen is committed to providing the personal service and attention that every client has a right to expect from their attorney.

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Vano Haroutunian

Vano Haroutunian

Distinguished Lawyer

Immigration Law

1675 Broadway 14th floor, New York, NY 10019, USA

Vano Haroutunian is the firm’s Managing Partner. His practice includes matters in Immigration, Commercial, Corporate and Tax Law, as well as Family Law and Litigation. Prior to joining Ballon Stoll as a member, he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Tax and Legal Services Department, where he worked on Federal, State and International Tax matters for Fortune 500 Clients of the firm. Vano's prior experience included work in appellate litigation at Stern, Greenberg and Kilcullen, as well as Securities Law at the SEC's New York Enforcement Division. His clients include multinational businesses, especially companies in the fashion industry. ? ?Mr. Haroutunian is fluent in five languages and is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey as well as in the United States Supreme Court and in the Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third and Ninth Circuits.

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Vladislav Sirota

Vladislav Sirota

Featured Lawyer

Immigration Law

128 Brighton 11th St., Suite 2, Brooklyn, NY 11235

Vladislav Sirota is an immigration attorney and the founding member and managing partner of Sirota and Associates, P.C., whose main office is in Brooklyn. He also serves as Of Counsel at Seiden Law; that appointment did not replace his leadership role at Sirota and Associates. Individuals and families, as well as professionals and businesses, make up the clients he advises on immigration matters. At Seiden Law, his work covers both employment-based and family-based immigration. Immigrant and nonimmigrant visas are part of that practice, along with adjustment of status and naturalization. Immigration is also the subject of a radio program he hosts. His educational background combines a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies from Georgia State University with a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. In addition to admission in New York and Georgia state courts, Sirota is admitted to the federal district courts for New York’s Southern and Eastern Districts. His federal appellate admissions span the First, Second, and Tenth Circuits. Sirota and Associates maintains its main office on Brighton 11th Street in Brooklyn and lists additional offices in Manhattan and Aventura, Florida, available by appointment. The firm’s stated practice extends beyond immigration to general business law and litigation, tax, international, matrimonial, and labor law. These are services listed by Sirota and Associates as a firm, distinct from the immigration work described in Sirota’s individual Seiden Law biography.

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