American Immigration Law Firm LLP
Monterey Park immigration firm with a full employment- and family-based visa practice, led by immigration attorney Mariano "Mario" F. Herrera.
Immigration attorneys in Los Angeles
Family petitions, removal defense, employment-based visas, asylum and naturalisation.
About Immigration matters in Los Angeles
Immigration work in Los Angeles splits into paths that look similar from outside and behave very differently in practice: family petitions, employment-based visas, humanitarian relief such as asylum, naturalisation, and removal defense. The first useful thing a consultation does is establish which of those you are actually in, because the agency involved, the evidence required and the consequences of a mistake are not the same across them.
Timelines are largely outside any firm's control. Most of the waiting is queue time at USCIS, the National Visa Center or the immigration court, and no practitioner can move you up a line. What a firm does control is whether your filing is complete and consistent the first time. Requests for evidence, and the months they add, are frequently the result of an avoidable gap in the original package.
Removal defense runs on a separate and much less forgiving clock, in immigration court rather than at a service centre. If there is a hearing date, or a notice to appear, that date sets the priority for everything else. Missing it can result in an order entered in your absence.
Two practical filters when choosing: ask which of these paths the firm handles regularly rather than occasionally, and be direct about fees. Immigration work is usually flat-fee by stage. Government filing fees are separate from the firm's fee, and a firm should be able to tell you which is which before you retain them.
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Kiang Immigration Law 姜國棟姜冠宇律師事務所
Alhambra immigration firm led by William K.T. Kiang and John Kiang, covering green cards, citizenship, visas, appeals, and waivers, with full service in Chinese.
Quadros Law Office APC - Advocates in Los Angeles
Los Angeles law office handling immigration, real estate disputes, elder abuse, and discrimination matters.
Bet Tzedek
A Los Angeles nonprofit law firm providing free civil legal assistance through programs for low-income residents, workers, seniors, and families.
Harris Sliwoski LLP
Harris Sliwoski LLP's Los Angeles office handles corporate transactions, business and intellectual property disputes, and legal matters for regulated businesses.
Law Office of Gwendolyn M Santos
Los Angeles law office handling immigration petitions, citizenship matters, and Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
The Fogle Law Firm, LLC
The Fogle Law Firm, LLC serves Los Angeles immigration clients in family and employment matters, removal defense, and federal immigration appeals.
Law Offices of Judith L. Wood
Los Angeles immigration practice handling asylum, removal defense, family and employment immigration, and federal immigration appeals.
LA Immigration Lawyer Kenneth H. Choi
Los Angeles immigration practice of Kenneth H. Choi serving individuals and businesses with visas, family and employment green cards, and naturalization.
Law Offices of Roxana V Muro
Immigration practice with Los Angeles and Rancho Cucamonga offices handling family and employment immigration, naturalization, asylum and deportation defense.
Law Firm of Anish Vashistha
Los Angeles immigration law firm handling family and employment immigration, removal defense and appeals, with an additional office in Fremont.
ImmigraTrust Law
Immigration firm handling family and employment petitions, citizenship applications, and federal lawsuits over delayed immigration cases.
Law Offices of Jane Oak & Associates, PC
Los Angeles immigration law firm handling family and employment immigration, temporary visas, citizenship, asylum and removal defense.
Rod Armande Law
Los Angeles law firm handling immigration matters and personal injury claims, including family-based green cards and vehicle accidents.
RB Law
RB Law is a Los Angeles immigration practice assisting individuals and businesses with work visas, permanent residence, family petitions and humanitarian immigration matters.
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Common questions
Can a lawyer make my case go faster?
Generally no. Most of the elapsed time is queue time at a government agency, and that queue is not something a firm can shorten. What a firm can prevent is self-inflicted delay: an incomplete filing that draws a request for evidence, or a missed response window that restarts part of the process.
What is the difference between an immigration lawyer and a notario?
In California, only a licensed attorney or an accredited representative may give legal advice on an immigration matter. The Spanish word notario carries a much more senior meaning in many Latin American countries than notary public does in the United States, and that mismatch is the basis of a long-running category of consumer harm. Ask for a California Bar number and check it.
I have a court date. Is that different from a USCIS application?
Yes, and it is more urgent. A hearing date means you are in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, which is a different forum with different rules from an application filed with USCIS. Bring every notice you have received to the first consultation.
Does a criminal record affect an immigration case?
It can, sometimes severely and sometimes in ways that are not obvious from the outcome in criminal court. A plea that looked minor at the time can carry immigration consequences years later. If both matters are live, they need to be looked at together rather than in sequence.