Manage a full docket of affirmative and defensive immigration matters from intake through resolution, including humanitarian screenings, I-589 filings, SIJS, adjustment and naturalization filings, EOIR hearings and BIA appeals, briefs and motions, client and witness preparation, supervising paralegals, and tracking critical filing and hearing deadlines.
Immigration Attorney
We carry a heavy humanitarian and removal defense docket, alongside family-based and adjustment work, and need another attorney to take cases from start to finish.
The work
- Your own docket of affirmative and defensive protection cases, consultation through decision
- Screening for humanitarian relief, withholding of removal, and CAT
- I-589 filings, declarations, exhibit indexes, country conditions
- SIJS matters, including predicate order hearings in state court and the I-360 and I-485 filings that follow
- Adjustment, removal of conditions, and naturalization filings, and appearing with clients at those interviews
- Briefs, pre-hearing statements, motions, RFE and NOID responses
- Master calendar and individual hearings at EOIR, appeals to the BIA
- Prepping clients and witnesses, including for cross
- Directing paralegals on case builds
- Watching the dates: the one-year filing bar, call-ups, biometrics, the EOIR clock
You need
- Active bar license in a U.S. state, in good standing
- Turkish at native level, English at professional level
- In person preferred, hybrid or remote considered
- Willingness and ability to travel for in-person hearings and interviews
- The ability to run a full docket without dropping details
- Immigration experience preferred, not required. Newly admitted attorneys who want to build this practice are welcome to apply.
Oguz Law Walnut Creek, California, USA Office
Walnut Creek, CA, United States
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