Immigration Attorney

Oguz Law•Walnut Creek, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We carry a heavy humanitarian and removal defense docket, alongside family-based and adjustment work, and need another attorney to take cases from start to finish.

Requirements

Active bar license in a U.S. state, in good standing.
Turkish at native level, English at professional level.
Willingness and ability to travel for in-person hearings and interviews.
Ability to manage a full docket without missing details.

Nice To Haves

Immigration experience preferred, but not required.
Newly admitted attorneys who want to build this practice are welcome to apply.

Responsibilities

Manage your own docket of affirmative and defensive protection cases, from consultation through decision.
Screen for humanitarian relief, withholding of removal, and CAT.
Handle I-589 filings, declarations, exhibit indexes, and country conditions.
Manage SIJS matters, including predicate order hearings in state court and the subsequent I-360 and I-485 filings.
Process adjustment, removal of conditions, and naturalization filings, and appear with clients at interviews.
Draft briefs, pre-hearing statements, motions, and responses to RFEs and NOIDs.
Represent clients in master calendar and individual hearings at EOIR, and handle appeals to the BIA.
Prepare clients and witnesses, including for cross-examination.
Direct paralegals on case builds.
Monitor critical dates such as the one-year filing bar, call-ups, biometrics, and the EOIR clock.