We represent clients throughout the world to advocate affirmative and defensive immigration related claims. We are committed to providing the utmost quality of professional representation.

Since 1997 the firm has been devoted to both simple and complex immigration problems, and is globally recognized as an expert firm on immigration law in the United States. Our attorneys have represented clients in landmark decisions that changed the immigration law throughout the country.

Attorney Macarius came to the United States as an immigrant himself and is fluent in Arabic. Attorney Botros is the daughter of immigrants and reads French and understands Egyptian Arabic. Our office also assists clients in Spanish and Portuguese.

What we handle

Family-based visas and petitions Employment-based visas Religious worker visas Labor certification (PERM) Asylum and withholding of removal Special immigrant juvenile status Adjustment of status and green cards Removal defense in Immigration Court Motions to reopen Naturalization and citizenship

Landmark decisions

El Moraghy v. Ashcroft

1st Cir. 2003 The First Circuit sharply criticized an Immigration Judge’s asylum denial and remanded the case to the Immigration Court.

Succar v. Ashcroft

1st Cir. 2005 Established the right of arriving aliens to adjust status while in removal proceedings; the Attorney General later changed the regulation nationwide.

Chedad v. Mukasey

1st Cir. 2008 After en banc review and Dada v. Mukasey, the First Circuit agreed that filing a motion to reopen withdraws voluntary departure.

Da Silva Neves v. Holder

1st Cir. 2010 Remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court on a Writ of Certiorari; cited in Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook.