The Lawyer Legion Immigration Information Center provides comprehensive resources to help the public find the top immigration lawyers in each state and city in the United States.
Browse the directory to compare the top attorneys and board-certified specialists recognized as leaders in the field of immigration and nationalization law.
The directory also provides information on the practice of immigration law, free immigration services, non-profit immigration organizations, and advocates networks.
Lawyer Legion Top Picks for 2023
The following list was determined using a number of factors including both objective and subjective criteria. Lawyers were selected based on their career accomplishments, high-profile cases, professional involvement, community leadership, and board certifications. This list includes many of the most highly accomplished immigration and nationality lawyers currently practicing in the United States.
When reviewing this list, please be aware of each of the following:
At Lawyer Legion, we created a directory of immigration attorneys. You can search our immigration law directory by state, city, or zip code. Find a list of profiles for different attorneys in a particular city or state.
The profiles have information on the attorney's membership and leadership in legal organizations related to immigration law, speaking engagements at quality CLE seminars, and participation in specialty certification programs.
All of the listings in our directory are free to immigration attorneys. Furthermore, you can trust the results because we do not allow any paid listings or advertising by the attorneys.
Immigration law governs who may come in and out of the United States, how long they may stay, who may become a citizen. Immigration law is governed under federal law under the United States Immigration and Nationality Act. The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have jurisdiction over immigration matters.
Immigration lawyers represent people from other countries who wish to come to the United States, people who are in the United States who wish to stay here or people who seek citizenship. Lawyers focused on immigration law may represent foreign nationals and U.S. corporations that employ foreign nationals.
An immigration attorney might represent a person at a deportation hearing or help a person fill out the necessary paperwork for asylum. Immigration lawyers represent clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. Department of State.
Types of immigration law cases include:
Find a lawyer for green cards.
Find a lawyer for visas.
Many lawyers who work exclusively in the immigration field focus on either family-based, marriage-based, or employment-based immigration cases. The immigration system is extraordinarily complex with many difficult issues, so it is important that the attorney have an understanding of it.
As immigration laws change, the attorney must keep up with all of the new development.
Members of immigration law organizations, like the American Immigration Lawyers Association, have access to continuing legal education, publications, and other resources that help them keep up-to-date on immigration law and practices, as well as improve their skills and competency.
The AILA also maintains an immigration attorney directory of its members which is an effective tool for anyone searching for the right lawyer.
The AILA immigration attorney directory also allows the public to narrow their search to include only attorneys that speak a particular foreign languages such as Spanish, Russian, French, Hindi, Chinese, or Japanese.
Several states allow attorneys to become certified as a specialist in immigration law. Under the bar rules in several states, board certified lawyers earns the right to advertise himself or herself as a specialist in the field of immigration law.
Use our directory to locate the most qualified lawyer certified as a specialist in immigration law in California.
Use the directory on Lawyer Legion to find a board certified immigration and nationality lawyer in North Carolina.
At Lawyer Legion, we know that finding the right attorney for your case is a difficult task. We created our free online directory of immigration lawyers to help make the job easier.
