Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Immigration

Prominent Assignments

• Immigrant and nonimmigrant status for multinational executives and intracompany transferees, foreign professionals, Treaty investors and traders, and accompanying family members
• Employment-based immigration
• Work-related visas and employment authorization
• Nationality and naturalization issues
• Admission of nonimmigrant professionals, intracompany transferees, Treaty traders and investors, and business visitors under the North American Free Trade Agreement
• Counseling on establishment of facilities and operations in the United States and related immigration issues
• Alien labor certification and adjustment of status
• Visa processing at U.S. Consulates worldwide

Education

• J.D., Wayne State University Law School, 1980
• M.A. in Government (International Relations), Texas Woman?s University, 1977
• B.A. in Political Science, Barnard College, 1976

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1980
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1980
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1980
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1992

Professional and Community Involvement

• Successfully challenged Michigan statute on constitutional grounds, and secured equal rights of aliens to purchase pistols (1996)
• Assisted American Citizens for Justice in the Vincent Chin Federal Civil Rights proceedings (1983-1984)
• Mediator, Oakland County Circuit Court and Michigan District Courts (1981-1994)
• Board of Directors (1989-1991), Chinese American Educational and Cultural Center of Michigan
• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Oakland County Bar Association
• Founding Member of the Asian American Bar Association of Michigan
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

Acknowledgments

• Trailblazer Award, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (1998)
• Headliner Award, Wayne State University (1990)
• Certificate of Appreciation, American Citizens for Justice (1985)