Services

The Law Offices of Lea McDermid, LLC provides legal
representation to noncitizens and has extensive
experience in the following areas:

Family-Based Immigration Issues

• Adjustment to permanent resident status
• Visa petitions
• Affidavit of Support issues
• Waivers for fraud, unlawful presence, and medical grounds of inadmissibility
• Consular processing
• Derivative citizenship for children of United States citizens
• Form I-751 Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence
• K visas for spouses and fiancés of U.S. citizens and their children

Domestic Violence Immigration Issues

• Battered spouse and children cases
• Crime victim (U visas) and trafficking victim (T visas) cases
• Removal of conditional status for marriage-based green cards including waivers based on domestic violence or divorce

Employment-Based Immigration

• Nonimmigrant visas (e.g. TN, H1-B visas)
• Labor Certification
• Employment-Based Adjustment of Status to obtain lawful permanent resident status (green card)

Removal and deportation defense

• Waivers for criminal grounds of removal
• Cancellation of removal
• Adjustment of Status
• Fraud waivers
• Asylum
• Termination of proceedings
• Motions to reopen and motions to reconsider final orders of removal and administrative denials of certain immigration applications
• Voluntary departure

Immigration Custody and Bond Issues

• Release from immigration custody
• Requests for reduced bond
• Bond redetermination hearings

Other Immigration Issues

• Diversity visa lottery
• Naturalization
• Asylum
• NACARA
• Temporary Protected Status