Our client is seeking an experienced, highly motivated
Immigration Associate Attorney to join our
Dallas-area practice. This is a hands-on role for an attorney who can manage a substantial immigration caseload, prepare and review applications, analyze the immigration consequences of criminal matters, and represent clients before USCIS and the Immigration Courts.
The position focuses on immigration applications, crimmigration analysis, and removal proceedings. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with clients facing complex immigration histories, prior criminal charges or convictions, inadmissibility concerns, and active removal matters.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, review, and file a broad range of family-based, humanitarian, employment-related, and naturalization matters, including I-130, I-485, I-129, I-129W, I-601, I-601A, I-751, I-765, I-864, N-400, U visa, VAWA, and related applications, petitions, waivers, and responses.
- Conduct detailed crimmigration analyses involving inadmissibility, removability, good moral character, naturalization eligibility, aggravated-felony issues, crimes involving moral turpitude, controlled-substance offenses, domestic-violence matters, and post-conviction options.
- Advise and collaborate with the firm's criminal-defense attorneys regarding immigration-safe criminal case strategy and dispositions.
- Represent clients at USCIS interviews, including adjustment-of-status, naturalization, and marriage-based interviews.
- Handle removal-defense matters before the Immigration Court, including master calendar hearings, individual hearings, motions, applications for relief, and filings with EOIR.
- Evaluate eligibility for relief including asylum, cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, waivers, VAWA-based relief, special rule cancellation, and other available immigration benefits.
- Prepare legal research, case strategies, client advisories, motions, briefs, and responses to RFEs, NOIDs, and USCIS denials.
- Communicate clearly and compassionately with clients; manage expectations, document strategy, and keep matters moving toward resolution.
- Supervise and work collaboratively with paralegals, legal assistants, and support staff to ensure complete, timely, and accurate filings.
- Maintain current knowledge of immigration law, USCIS policy, EOIR procedure, and changing crimmigration authority.
Required Qualifications
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
- Active license and good standing with a U.S. state bar; Texas licensure preferred, or eligibility to practice immigration law in Texas.
- Minimum of 2 years of substantive immigration-law experience.
- Demonstrated experience preparing and filing family-based immigration applications and representing clients before USCIS.
- Experience with removal proceedings and Immigration Court practice.
- Working knowledge of immigration consequences of criminal arrests, charges, pleas, convictions, deferred adjudications, and post-conviction relief.
- Strong legal writing, research, organization, client-communication, and case-management skills.
- Ability to independently manage deadlines, competing priorities, and a demanding caseload.
- Commitment to excellent client service, professionalism, confidentiality, and ethical practice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a high-volume immigration or immigration/criminal-defense practice.
- Experience with U visas, VAWA matters, waivers, asylum, cancellation of removal, and complex adjustment cases.
- Fluency in Spanish, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, or another language commonly used by the firm's clients is a plus.
- Experience using INSZoom, Abacus, or similar immigration and law-practice-management systems.
Our client offers a sophisticated, team-oriented environment for attorneys who want to build strong immigration and immigration skills while serving clients with serious and often life-changing legal issues.
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
- Hybrid Flexibility
