About
Ms. Chicas has practiced immigration law exclusively considering that embarking on her prison career. She has enormous enjoy in a big selection of immigration subjects, consisting of deportation defense (cancellation of elimination, 212(c) and 212(h) waivers for crimes, de novo TPS claims, and bond hearings), family-primarily based immigration (adjustment of reputation and consular processing), visas for immigrant survivors of home violence and sufferers of crimes, waivers (for fraud, crimes, fitness-related bars and earlier deportations), citizenship and naturalization, nonimmigrant (transient) visas, asylum, NACARA, and humanitarian remedy (brief blanketed repute and parole). She has successfully represented clients in complex immigration matters earlier than the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals in addition to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and various U.S. consulates and embassies abroad. Ms. Chicasr has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. She has also studied overseas in Toledo, Spain. Ms. Chicas s interest in immigration commenced when she labored as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at a nearby non-profit business enterprise offering help to the immigrant and refugee network in northeast Ohio. During regulation faculty, Ms. Chicas pursued her hobby in immigration regulation by operating for a distinguished employment-primarily based immigration regulation workplace and a non-profit agency supplying prison help to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in southwest Michigan. After law college, Ms. Chicas commenced her legal career in the immigration discipline by way of operating at a busy immigration regulation office in Miami, Florida in 2006. In 2007, she joined an immigration law workplace in Dallas, Texas in which she helped to expand and increase the organization s exercise. Prior to joining the Law Offices of Michael G. Matthews › ›
Location
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Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
Certificates
Languages
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Associate Lawyer
Law Office of Michael G. Matthews
2009 - Associate Lawyer
Reina, Bates, & Kowalski Immigration Law Group
2007 - Associate Lawyer
Immigration Group, LLC
2006
Educations
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Graduation year: 2001
