Jennifer is an Associate in the Immigration Practice Group. Her practice focuses on employment-based petitions and applications on behalf of employers and foreign workers seeking temporary and permanent employment in the United States. She also advises and represents individual clients on family-based immigration matters, immigration self-petitions and citizenship applications.  Jennifer is a frequent panelist on national teleconferences regarding the representation of foreign medical graduates and has been named among the “Legal Elite” in the practice of immigration law by Virginia Business magazine.   She sits on the Healthcare Professional/Physicians Committee of the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association and is a member of the Foreign Medical Graduate Taskforce.

Jennifer's practice includes:

• J-1 Waiver Applications for foreign medical graduates
• H-1B, L-1A, L-1B and O-1 Nonimmigrant Petitions
• TN Applications for Mexican and Canadian citizens
• Labor Certification Applications under the PERM regulation
• Other Immigrant Petitions for employment-based and family-based clients
• Consular processing of immigrant and non-immigrant visa applications
• Naturalization Applications for Lawful Permanent Residents seeking citizenship
• Self-Petitions under the Violence Against Women Act

Articles, Publications and Appearances:

• “Getting the Green Card on the Five Year Plan:  National Interest Waivers for Clinical Physicians,” in Immigration Options for Physicians (3rd edition, 2009).
• Co-author, “Clinical J-1 Waivers – A Primer,” in the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook (2009-2010 edition).
• Panelist, 2009 National Conference of the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association, on the topic of J-1 clinical waivers for foreign medical graduates.