Why I Do This Work

I am proud and honored to be an immigration attorney. After many years of experience, I have learned how to navigate our byzantine immigration system and help my clients achieve their immigration goals. My happiest and most satisfying professional moments over the past 15 years have been each and every success - guiding a greencard holder through becoming a U.S. citizen, helping a client secure a greencard based on a marriage to a U.S. citizen, or winning an asylum claim and knowing my client will not be deported to a country where their life is in danger. As a former Asylum Officer at the USCIS, I was honored to have the authority to carry out the mission of the agency, finding and protecting refugees. I took great satisfaction in every I-94 card I stamped as “approved.” Being a part of the system and thinking like an adjudicator was invaluable and has made me a better advocate. 

 
 
 
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With respect to my process, after an in-depth consultation, if I identify a path forward, and we decide to work together, you will have my complete commitment to advocate for you. To the best of my ability, and within the confines of the law, I will fight for you to achieve your immigration goals. Throughout our work together, you will have consistent access directly to me. While I appreciate the challenge of a complex legal issue, my practice is about serving real humans who need my help, not a case or a legal issue.

 
 
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Attorney Rosenbaum is passionate about immigrant rights, working with immigrants and in immigration law, and has extensive immigration law experience. She has prevailed in cases at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has been honored as a “Super Lawyer." She has also succeeded in securing permanent resident status and citizenship for hundreds of clients over the course of fifteen years.

 

Premier legal publisher LexisNexis has published Attorney Rosenbaum's work, she has been an invited contributor to the ImmigrationProfBlog, and advises on immigration policy matters. She has edited essential immigration law treatises, and has been an invited speaker at immigration law and scholar conferences around the country. Attorney Rosenbaum also enjoys teaching Immigration Law and Appellate Advocacy at Golden Gate University School of Law, and Immigration and Citizenship at UC Berkeley. She is a former board member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), co-chair of the NLG Immigration Committee, and has held leadership positions with the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA).