Erin Hwang

Erin is an Associate in BAL’s Chicago office, where she advises corporate clients and their foreign national employees on immigration matters. She is experienced in a wide variety of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa cases, including H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, O-1, TN, R-1 and J-1 petitions, as well as EB-1 multinational manager, EB-1 outstanding researcher, EB-2 national interest waiver and adjustment of status filings. Erin also handles complex immigration matters involving requests for evidence, corporate blanket registrations, cross-border mobility and family-based dependent applications.

Prior to BAL, Erin practiced immigration law at both a full-service law firm and a boutique immigration law firm, representing multinational employers and foreign nationals in a broad range of immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters. During law school, she served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Heidi M. Pasichow of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and worked with Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute, where she helped counsel prepare for oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. Through Georgetown Law’s Street Law program, Erin taught legal advocacy to students at School Without Walls High School in Washington, D.C. She also gained public interest experience with Legal Aid of Northwest Texas and worked pro-bono internships with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California and Colorado’s Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel.

Erin is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In her free time, she enjoys volleyball, Pilates and musical theater.