Best Immigration Lawyers San Francisco, CA

Van Der Hout Immigration and Nationality Law serves clients in San Francisco and the surrounding areas. The lawyers at the firm prepare citizenship and naturalization applicants by identifying and evaluating potential obstacles, such as domestic violence charges and criminal convictions. Citizens of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti are also assisted through the country-specific immigration service. Other services include asylum assistance, deportation and removal defense, and federal litigation and appeals. Founding partner Marc Van Der Hout received the premier award for outstanding litigation in immigration law from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Santamaria Law Firm, P.C. is an immigration law firm that serves clients in San Francisco. It handles family petitions like fiancée or marriage visas and petitions for family members or adopted children. It also helps with employment-based visa petitions for priority workers, investors, and special immigrants. Marc Santamaria, the founder of this firm, grew up in an immigrant community in Daly City with his Filipino immigrant parents. He previously volunteered at immigration offices to help improve the system from within.

Geri N. Kahn is an immigration lawyer providing services in San Francisco. She helps people obtain citizenship, apply for a green card, and petition a family member or a fiance. She also assists clients with their visa requirements, such as H-1B and L-1 for small business owners and R-1 for religious workers. In addition, her legal firm serves as counsel in deportation hearings, and adjudication of benefits with the following agencies: EOIR, USCIS, and ICE. Kahn is a certified specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Law Offices of Benjamin F. Hall provides legal services related to immigration matters to clients in San Francisco. It assists individuals involved in deportation or removal proceedings, seeking status adjustments, and petitioning for naturalizations. The firm also practices criminal law, handling drug, thefts, felonies, and misdemeanor crimes. Ben Hall leads the law firm's operations, which has represented various clients, primarily immigrants, for more than ten years. He is a member of prominent organizations, such as the A.I.L.A, C.A.C.J., and N.I.G.

Attorney Andrei Romanenko serves clients in San Francisco and its surrounding areas. Romanenko represents immigrants in removal proceedings and USCIS hearings and prepares cases for consular processing. He previously worked as an immigration attorney at the Law Offices of Kerosky Purves & Bogue, the Law Offices of Robert David Baker, and the Law Offices of Dominic Capeci. Romanenko is also a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law and a commissioner of the Immigrant Rights Commission.

He has also been featured by Forbes as one of the best immigration lawyers in the San Francisco area.

The San Francisco Law Group assists businesses, entrepreneurs, and families in obtaining visas, green cards, and citizenship. It serves clients in the San Francisco area, nationally, and internationally. Rebecca Freeman and her team assist their clients in navigating the United States' complex immigration laws, frequently working with startup companies and investors from visa issuance to corporate immigration policy; administrative processing to dependent and family member processing; immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions; and regulatory compliance. Freeman is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Serving San Francisco and the nearby areas, The Law Office of Zhang is a full-service private immigration law practice that represents individuals, families, and businesses in legal matters surrounding citizenship, family- and investment-based immigration, and visas. It also provides legal assistance with J-1 waivers, marriage-based green cards, PERM Labor Certification, reentry permits, and consular processing. Previous clients commend Emma Zhang for her prompt and knowledgeable assistance, responding to clients' inquiries after-hours and providing tips for green card interviews.

Harrison Law Office focuses on serving clients in San Francisco who have various immigration concerns. It assists individuals with US citizenship file petitions for their spouses, fiancé(e)s, children, parents, or siblings. The law firm helps in obtaining employment-based green cards for EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-4, and EB-5 categories. It handles visa applications for temporary work and humanitarian work, and for multinational investors and entrepreneurs. Those who arrive in the US with asylum or temporary visas may seek the services of the law firm to adjust their status.

Litwin & Smith, A Law Corporation handles immigration matters in South San Francisco and throughout the San Francisco area. Its attorneys help companies with I-9 compliance, work site enforcement assistance, H-1B compliance, E-Verify, and Social Security no-match letters. It assists individuals with green cards, naturalization, citizenship, and employment-based visas. Founding partner Edward R. Litwin, who has more than 40 years of legal experience is certified by the California State Bar of Legal Specialization in immigration and nationality law.

Shamieh Shamieh & Ternieden Attorneys at Law is a legal practice serving clients in San Francisco. It offers personalized service and representation to people seeking temporary work permits or student visas and those who need to stop deportation orders. Its immigration attorneys also help clients obtain a green card, secure full legal citizenship, or keep their families together. The multilingual team can serve clients in Arabic, Spanish, Cantonese, Portuguese, and Russian. Elias Shamieh, the founding attorney, has nearly 30 years of immigration law experience.

Shah Peerally Law Group PC is a firm that serves individuals throughout San Francisco and its surrounding areas. The practice provides services involving immigration law, including employment- and family-based immigration. It also handles matters related to temporary work visas, such as EB1A, EB1B, EB1C, and EB2 NIW, as well as tourist visas. Principal Shah Peerally has been featured on Times Now and NDTV when he defended around 1,500 immigrant students of the University of Northern Virginia Annandale and TVU.

K & G Law, LLP, is a firm serving San Francisco and its surrounding communities. It handles different areas of immigration law for individuals and families, businesses and investors, non-immigrant visas, employment-based immigration, and asylum and deportation defense. These include cases like marriage to a US citizen, hiring immigrant employees, asylum appeals, sealing arrest records, and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). One of the firm's lawyers, Liliana Gallelli, has been practicing law since 2004 and is affiliated with the Help A Life Foundation, Inc.

The Law Office of Christine Troy is a San Francisco law firm that practices exclusively in the areas of immigration and naturalization law. The firm has a special emphasis on employment-based work visas/green cards, marriage/family-based green cards, and U.S. citizenship. Christine Troy handles highly technical green cards for those with extraordinary ability and outstanding researchers and processes cases within the U.S. via consular processing. She has more than 20 years of experience in the immigration field.

Since its founding in 1998, the Law Offices of Fariba Faiz, located in San Francisco, has offered counsel regarding U.S. immigration issues to clients throughout the world. The firm assists clients in securing temporary work visas and visas for employment- and family-based immigration and naturalization. It also works out creative immigration solutions for people, including investors, students, professors, researchers, artists, and performers, and helps businesses with I-9 compliance. Founding attorney Faiz is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Thip Ark Law offers legal representation to clients in San Francisco in obtaining permanent US residency. It has been assisting migrants in navigating the complexities of US immigration law for over a decade. Thipphavone Ark immigrated from Laos to the US in 1975 and thus has firsthand experience as a subject of immigration law. She handles immigrant visas, deportation defense, citizenship and naturalization, employment eligibility, asylum, and family-based petitions. Ark was featured in the San Francisco Magazine as one of the top five percent of Northern California attorneys.

Founded in 1981, the San Francisco-based Law Offices of Vaughan de Kirby APC focuses on helping investors throughout the world immigrate to the United States. The firm helps clients obtain special visas available to investors, entrepreneurs, and intra-company transferees. The legal team also advises clients on other immigration options, including those for students, temporary workers, and people with extraordinary abilities. Founding attorney de Kirby holds a Series 7 securities license, which allows him to dispense financial advice and analysis.

Located in San Francisco, Alano Immigration is an immigration law firm representing the people of San Francisco and nearby areas. Sole and founding attorney Grace Alano has been assisting immigrants for over 20 years. She helps her clients apply for green card through marriage and family, fiancee visas, and citizenship and naturalization. She also helps people apply for asylum, U visas, VAWA, family-based immigration, and inadmissibility waivers. In 2019 and 2020, Ms. Alano was honored by Thomson Reuters as a Northern California Super Lawyer.