Associate

Lisa Sotelo focuses her practice on Corporate Immigration. She counsels corporations, educational institutions, and individuals on a variety of business immigration issues. Ms. Soltelo's previous experience includes working at full-service immigration firms, where she represented clients not only in employment-based cases but also in federal litigation, international adoption, family matters, and immigration court proceedings.

• Employment-based nonimmigrant petitions for specialty workers, intracompany transferees, NAFTA workers, trainees, individuals with extraordinary ability, treaty traders and investors, and religious workers
• PERM labor certification process for skilled workers, professionals, and educators
• Other permanent resident options including: extraordinary ability, multinational managers/executives, outstanding professors/researchers, Schedule A nurses, religious workers, and national interest waivers
• Waivers for grounds of inadmissibility and deportablity
• Nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions for athletes, entertainers, and executive chefs
• Removal defense in immigration proceedings

Education

J.D., Loyola Univerity New Orleans School of Law, 2004
A.B., Princeton University, 2001

Bar Admissions

State Bar of Texas

Court Admissions

Texas Supreme Court

Professional Affiliations

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
• Dallas Bar Association
• Dallas Hispanic Bar Association
• Texas Bar Association
• Texas Young Lawyers Association

Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP

Reina & Bates Immigration Law Group