LaKenya Franklin-Robinson

LaKenya is a Staff Attorney in the Dallas office of BAL, where she advises clients on all U.S. nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters. LaKenya has expertise in employment visa matters, including H-1B, L-1, E-3, and I-140 petitions. She began her legal career as a law clerk at BAL. In addition to her experience in business
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Snigdha R. Ravulapati

Snigdha is a Staff Attorney in the San Francisco office of BAL, where she advises clients on all nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters. Snigdha has expertise in L-1, PERM, H-1B, TN, and EB-1 multinational manager immigrant visa petitions. She has also represented clients in deportation defense matters, including affirmative/defensive asylum applications and family-based immigration petitions.
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April C. Soto

April is a Staff Attorney in the Houston office of BAL, where she advises clients on all employment-based immigration matters. April works with corporate clients with a variety of immigration matters including preparing employment-based visa petitions and assisting foreign national employees through the process. April also has experience representing clients in family-based adjustments, PERM, U
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Chiwon “Ash” Chang

Chiwon is an Associate in the New York office of BAL, where she advises multinational clients on employment-based immigrant visa petitions. Chiwon has experience representing multinational companies and individual clients in a  broad range of immigration matters, including L-1s, H-1Bs, E-2s, J-1s, 212(d)(3), I-601A waivers, cancelation of removal, and VAWA. She has also counseled individual
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Alex Landivar

Alex is a Staff Attorney in the New York office of BAL, where he advises clients on all immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters. Alex has experience representing a wide array of corporations and organizations in immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters, including employment-based immigration. He has also represented clients in pro bono immigration cases. Alex is
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Ella Leviyeva

Ella is an Associate in the New York office of BAL, where she advises clients on all employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant matters, including compliance, program management, and corporate reorganizations. Ella has specialized experience representing clients in international transactional and compliance matters. Fluent in English and Russian, she focused on immigration advocacy during law school when
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Phillip Pullig

Phillip is an Associate in the Houston office of BAL, where he advises clients on all employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant matters, including petitions. Phillip has wide expertise in employment-based visa matters, and is versatile in French and Spanish. During law school, he focused on immigration advocacy, interning at the Legal Aid Justice Center on removal
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Cody Gecht

Cody is a Staff Attorney in BAL’s New York office where he guides clients and employees through the immigration process and prepares immigration filings, evaluates cases and provides strategies and solutions.  Cody focuses on EB-1s, O-1s and responding to Requests for Evidence (RFEs). He assists with the preparation of complex written projects for immigration cases,
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Gergana “Gerry” Tzekova

Gergana is a Senior Associate in the Dallas office of BAL, where she advises clients on all immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters. Gergana has experience representing multinational corporations on a wide array of immigration matters, including STEM, Extraordinary Ability/Outstanding Researchers, Multinational Managers, National Interest Waivers, compliance, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. She is versatile in
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Simon Craven

Simon is an Associate in the New York office of BAL, where he advises multinational clients on all immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters. Simon has diverse experience representing clients across the financial, manufacturing, creative, and religious sectors, in both corporate and family immigration matters. Dedicated to advocacy and versatile in English and French, Simon also
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