Immigration Law.

Status is dignity: the right to work, to stay, to bring family, to build a life without looking over your shoulder. We file petitions built to be approved and fight removals that should never have been brought, alongside our employment and labor colleagues when hiring crosses borders.

1,200+Petitions and applications filed for individuals and employers
98%Approval rate across employment-based visa categories
72hResponse window on urgent travel and status emergencies

Overview

Immigration law rewards precision and punishes assumption. A missed deadline, a wrong category, one inconsistent form — any of them can cost a person years. We treat every petition as if it will be audited, because someday it may be.

Employment visas and green cards, family petitions, investor and entrepreneur routes, naturalization, asylum, and removal defense. For employers we build compliant sponsorship programs; for families we build cases that hold together under the hardest scrutiny.

Multinational transfers and relocations are run from our Chicago headquarters, with our London headquarters and associated counsel in Singapore managing destination-country filings on the same instruction. One team carries the person, the family, and the paperwork across the border together.

Travel documents laid out for review, the first step of every petition we file

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The Immigration Law team

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L. Darrow

Senior Partner · Lead, Immigration Law
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Sofia Ellery

Partner · Business Immigration
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Marcus Deverell

Counsel · Family & Humanitarian
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C. Frost

Associate · Removal Defense
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What the record says

Every request for evidence was answered before I even knew it existed. My case sailed through.
Client survey, 2025
They brought my mother over in eleven months, after another firm said it could not be done.
Family client, 2025

Recent work

Matters we're proud of

Business

Blanket petition program built for a 300-employee technology firm

Family

Hardship waiver approved, reuniting a family after a prior denial

Investor

Investor visa granted for a manufacturing founder and key staff

Defense

Removal proceedings terminated and status fully restored

Latest articles and knowledge

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