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Biography
Hans Burgos, is currently a top AV Preeminent rated immigration attorney by Martindale.com and a former immigration prosecutor.
Attorney Burgos received his law degree in 1987 from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. His experience started in 1987 when he was hired by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), currently known as USCIS under the Attorney General’s National Honor Program.
By 1988 Attorney Burgos became a Federal Prosecutor for the INS in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Later on, in 1990 he also performed as a prosecutor for the INS in the states of Florida, New York, Louisiana and Texas. He held this position as a trial attorney for eleven years, representing the United States in deportation proceedings conducted before immigration courts.
From 1999 through 2012, Attorney Burgos established and worked at Burgos & Sosa, P.A. a top AV-rated immigration law firm by Martindale.com in Miami, Florida.
Attorney Burgos is a Founder and Partner at the law firm of Hans Burgos, P.A. in Coral Gables, Florida. Moreover, he regularly serves as an Expert Witness in U.S. federal courts. Attorney Burgos is a member of the International Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association, and is fluent in English and Spanish.
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Hans Burgos P.A., is a top immigration law firm rated 10.0 by Avvo and 5.0 AV Preeminent for 13 years in a row by Martindale, based in the city of Coral Gables in Miami, Florida. Our goal is to deliver highly personal and excellent legal representation in all areas of immigration law.
Every day we help clients, such as foreign investors (E-2 visas); foreign professionals (H-1B visas); foreign multinational executives and managers (L-1A and L-1B visas); foreign athletes, and artists of extraordinary ability (O-1 visas) in navigating complex legal immigration challenges.
We can also assist you in the process of obtaining lawful permanent residence (green card) in the United States either based on a petition (Form I-140) by a United States employer; or a petition (Form I-130) filed by an immediate relative in the United States. Hans Burgos, P.A. can also represent you on a petition for United States citizenship or naturalization (Form N-400).
901 Ponce de Leon Blvd Suite #603 Coral Gables FL 33134
Biography
John Byrley is the principal of the Firm, and has been practicing immigration law since 1999. His focus is on naturalization, marriage and family immigration, employment immigration, and non-immigrant working visas such as the H-1B.
John has wide experience working with individuals from many different cultures and backgrounds, having served with a number of international development organizations such as Freedom House, the US-Ukraine Foundation, Chemonics International, and Democratic-Russia USA Foundation.
Attorney Byrley is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. John is an active member of the Maryland Bar, and an inactive member of the Bars of Virginia and Florida. John received a Juris Doctor, with honors, in 1992, from the University of Florida College of Law, where he served as the Executive Research Editor on the Florida International Law Journal. Attorney John is an active member of the Maryland Bar, and an inactive member of the Bars of Virginia and Florida.
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Byrley Law Firm, L.L.C., assists individuals and businesses in all jurisdictions and in all matters related to U.S. immigration and nationality law. Our clients include international investors, leading non-governmental organizations, employers throughout the US, researchers and scientists, as well as private individuals, engaged couples and families across the world.
Our mission is to deliver the highest quality legal counsel and service to our clients, and in fulfilling this mission we strive to establish and maintain open and long-lasting relationships with our clients, with the understanding that, to be effective, an attorney must see the client, not as “case” but as a person.
We are located in Columbia, Maryland, and are convenient to the entire metropolitan Washington, DC, and Baltimore area.
10015 Old Columbia Road Suite B-215 Columbia MD 21046
David Michael Good
Criminal Defense Lawyer – DUI & DWI Attorney David Michael Good, P.C. Attorney at LawBiography
Experienced in State and Federal Courts in Virginia
I’ve spent my legal career fighting to protect others’ rights in state and federal courts in Virginia, and I’ve represented clients from many areas of Virginia as well as clients from throughout the United States and numerous foreign nationals in the state and federal courts in Virginia. I have practiced criminal and traffic law since 1999.
I also represent clients in Virginia expungement matters (petitioning a circuit court to expunge criminal charges that were nolle prosequi (or formally dropped), the client was acquitted, or the charge was otherwise dismissed).
Throughout my entire legal career my law offices have been in Virginia Beach or Norfolk, Virginia. I have practiced in all of the courts in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area, as well as many courts outside of the area. While I occasionally represent clients outside of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, my primary geographical areas of representation are Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News, and Northampton.
Unique Background
Before attending law school (1996 – 1999) I served as a U.S. Army Ranger (3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment), a city police officer (Lynchburg, Virginia), and as a Virginia state trooper. While I have been in private practice since graduating from law school and becoming a licensed attorney subsequent to the Virginia bar exam in 1999, I worked as an intern in the Virginia Beach Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney and the Chesapeake Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney during law school.
I prosecuted numerous trials during my internship with the Virginia Beach Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney (during my third year of law school, while in the presence of a licensed attorney (prosecutor).
I believe that my combination of legal, law enforcement, and military experience provides me with a unique skill set to assist clients in their criminal and traffic law matters. I have litigated scores of cases since being admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1999, including high profile cases.
Strong Litigation Skills
I believe that I am an experienced, skilled litigator (trial attorney) with more than 20 years of courtroom experience in state and federal courts in Virginia. I have represented clients in jury trials in federal and state courts in Virginia. I represented a Somali national accused of piracy under the law of nations, among other charges in a federal jury trial, which was a case with national media coverage. I have represented clients in other federal jury trials accused of RICO, murder, robbery, conspiracy, firearms charges, etc.
I have represented foreign nationals in federal court from Belarus, Argentina, Mexico, Senegal, and another Somali national in a high profile piracy matter involving Americans on a yacht (S/V Quest). I have represented clients in numerous state jury trials accused of violent felonies as well as non-violent felonies.
While every case is unique and the results depend on a variety of factors, I have had jury verdicts that acquitted my clients of the charged crimes in a federal jury trial and state jury trials. I have represented hundreds of clients in trials before judges, which are known as bench trials. I have represented clients on appellate matters and argued before the Court of Appeals of Virginia and the Supreme Court of Virginia, and I have had cases in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Please remember that these case results do not in any way guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case undertaken by me.
Strong Negotiation Skills
Many serious criminal law cases do not go to trial – they are settled or agreed upon by plea agreement. While negotiations and trial work require different skill sets, I am well-experienced in both.
While I pride myself in being a litigator, or trial attorney, not every case does, or should, go to trial. Many cases can be resolved without the necessity — or expense — of trial. Part of being a skilled and experienced attorney is knowing when to recommend to a client that a case should be taken to trial.
The decision is ultimately the client’s to make, and it is not always an easy decision. I believe it is important that opposing counsel (the prosecutor) knows that his or her counterpart has extensive trial experience.
Principles
One of my fundamental principles is that I am honest. I always tell my clients the truth, whether it is what the client prefers to hear or otherwise. While the practice of law ultimately is a business, it is a profession, and it requires proper education, experience, legal skill, and the ability to talk to clients in clear, understandable, and candid terms.
It is essential that clients are aware of the potential perils that they may face by taking or not taking some course of action. Clients will receive an honest assessment of their legal matters from me at the initial consultation, and throughout my representation.
780 Lynnhaven Parkway Suite 400 Virginia Beach Virginia 23452-7332
Biography
Attorney Alicia Morgan, the founder of Immigration Lawyers USA LLC, is an attorney licensed in the state of Kentucky who practices federal immigration and nationality law for clients in Florida and across the United States. Immigration Lawyers USA, LLC is based in Miami, Florida and offers in-person consultations throughout South Florida, including North Miami, Miami Beach, and Brickell. Mrs. Morgan is dedicated to representing the immigrant community nationwide in affirmative family and employment-based petitions before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and before U.S. Consulates worldwide. Further, Ms. Morgan zealously defends her clients at USCIS interviews and in deportation proceedings before the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) and all U.S. Immigration Courts. In addition, she defends her clients’ rights in appeals to the EOIR, USCIS, and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Immigration Lawyers USA practice is limited to immigration law.
Mrs. Morgan is fluent in Spanish and English and is conversational in Portuguese. She is experienced in complex family-based applications; unlawful presence, crime and fraud waivers; removal defense, including cancellation of removal for non-legal permanent residents and for legal permanent residents, asylum, adjustment of status and prosecutorial discretion; U visa, VAWA, TPS, DACA applications; naturalization cases, and most employment-based applications.
Attorney Morgan earned her Juris Doctor in 2009 from West Virginia University College of Law, where she served as a WVU Immigration Law Clinic student attorney and the International Law Student Association vice president. She earned a double Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Print Journalism in 2005 at Murray State University in Kentucky, graduating at the top of her class summa cum laude and twice winning awards for being the Best Spanish Student in the Modern Language Department.
Mrs. Morgan is an active member of the South Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), currently, serves as Co-Chair of the Continued Legal Education committee and a member of the Unlawful Practice of Law committee. She also serves on the Immigration Law Section New Member Division committee of the Federal Bar Association and as a volunteer attorney at Bridge Immigration Services, a non-profit associated with Caring for Miami and Christ Fellowship Church in Miami.
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Immigration Lawyers USA is law firm of experienced attorneys in Miami focused exclusively on immigration law and helping you and your family achieve the American Dream. We are honest and respectful of our clients and work hard to protect and promote our clients in all areas of immigration. We practice diverse areas of immigration law, including family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, and deportation defense. See our five-star reviews on avvo.com, yelp.com, facebook.com and Google business. Schedule a consultation with us, and experience the difference!
We are a firm of attorneys that practices all types of immigration matters. Because we handle only immigration cases, we are prepared to handle your immigration case with expertise!
We speak English, Spanish and Portuguese.
12567 NE 7th Avenue North Miami FL 33161
1000 5th Street Suite 200-C10 Miami Beach FL 33139
1001 Brickell Bay Dr. #2701 Miami FL 33131
Biography
Raphael “Ray” Scheetz is the founder of the Law Offices of Raphael M. Scheetz, a firm which since 1994 has focused in the practice of criminal defense and immigration law.Mr. Scheetz is one of the first attorneys in Iowa who has specialized in immigration cases, representing hundreds of clients in diverse matters such as Citizenship, Immigration services and Customs enforcement.
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These cases included cases as complex as visas based on family unification and marriage with American citizens. Mr. Scheetz has successfully represented clients through the immigration process before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, Immigration Court, and Board of Immigration Appeals.
425 2nd St SE Suite 1010 Cedar Rapids IA 52401