Immigration Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 30 years of experience practicing immigration law. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. He received the Edith Lowenstein award by the American Immigration Lawyers Association for his contributions to the practice of immigration law. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor at a major law school where he teaches immigration and asylum law. He also works as Of Counsel for an immigration law firm that specializes in business immigration matters.

This highly qualified expert has been member of the State Bar of California since 1978 and focuses on immigration law. He holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Certified as a Specialist in Immigration Law and a former chair of the Immigration Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, he deals with various immigration processes including different types of visas. He has been a frequent speaker on immigration law and visa strategies for various organizations including the Northern California Human Resources Association and the British-American Business Council. He currently works as Managing Partner at an immigration law firm in CA.

This highly qualified expert received her BA in Psychology and her MS in Clinical Social Work from the University of Texas-Pan American. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and she is a certified Family Trauma Professional, Suicide Prevention Counselor and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). This expert previously worked as Supervisor II for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. Here, she led and supervised a unit of caseworkers responsible for providing adult protective services to victims of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. She provided case management supervision and interacted routinely with the Texas Department of Family Services' clients, organizations' representatives, and the public. This expert then went on to work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and as Executive Director of the Family Crisis Center of the Rio Grande Valley. She managed and lead the social services agency and provided individual and group mental health therapy and case management supervision. This expert is currently an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at two universities in Texas and she is a Psychotherapist at a women's emotional wellness center.

This highly qualified and specialized expert has been working in immigration and human rights in Haiti for over 20 years. He earned his BA in history from Middlebury College and JD from Georgetown University. He went on to work as a human rights and elections observer for the UN and Organizations of American States Civilian Mission to Haiti, and went on to be a co-director of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux/Office of International Lawyers in Haiti. He has authored 5 book chapters and a number of publications in legal journals, and he conducts research in human rights advocacy, international organization accountability, and transitional justice. He is fluent in French and Haitian Creole and he earned an award in human rights from the Center for Justice and Accountability. Currently, he is the founder and executive director of a human rights and legal advocacy organization based in Massachusetts that handles conditions for asylum and other immigration matters from Haiti.