Members in the News

Matt Maiona, an immigration attorney in Boston and spokesperson for the American Immigration Lawyers Association speaks to The Independent about the arrival of Venezuelan asylum seekers on Marthas Vineyard.

Read it here: https://t.co/UjLKa6YFay

Attorney Rachel Self’s message is clear: “[t]o the people who find themselves plane wrecked on our island, I have a message for you. You are not alone. We have your backs. We got you. If the intention of those who perpetrated this horrendous act was to create a crisis, they have failed.”

Watch it here: Immigration lawyers say Mass. migrants given misleading information in Texas – YouTube

The Boston Globe quoted Jill Seeber, Esq., founder of the Mabel Center and an AILA NE Asylum liaison, about the Biden administration’s attempts to expedite families’ asylum claims at the expense of due process.

Read it here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/20/metro/rocket-docket-redux-still-bad-idea/

Attorney Annelise Araujo was interviewed for a WGBH article, reporting on Boston’s asylum office and their low grant rate. Boston’s asylum office has the second lowest grant rate for asylum seekers in the country. In the interview, Annelise focused her remarks on the consequence of a denied asylum.

Read it here: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/03/23/boston-immigration-office-has-second-lowest-grant-rate-for-asylum-seekers-in-the-country

Think Immigration published AILA member Peter Rees’ article on the National Interest Waiver on February 16, 2022.

Read it here: https://thinkimmigration.org/blog/2022/02/16/did-the-national-interest-waiver-just-get-easier/

AILA New England Chair Annelise Araujo’s letter to the Boston Globe editor was published yesterday. In her letter, Attorney Araujo stressed the point that our current US labor shortage could be mitigated, in part, by timely adjudication of the pool of over 650,000 pending with USCIS. She states: “The waiting time for many applicants is now over 12 months — for an application that USCIS estimates takes just 12 minutes to adjudicate.” 12 minutes! Great point, Annelise.

Read it here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/16/opinion/immigration-labor-shortage/#bgmp-comments

bostonglobe.com-Immigration and the labor shortage

Annelise Araujo publishes “Immigration Bias in Family Court” in the Family Advocate/ABA Magazine

Read it here: Immigration Bias in Family Court Article

Our very own Mahsa Khanbabai was quoted in Ms. Magazine in “Feminist Wishes for 2022: “We Were Never Meant To Do This Work Alone”!

Boston Magazine released their first ever Top Lawyers List. Of the 35 lawyers given the honor, 34 are AILA NE members! Our Chapter continues to excel! Here is a complete list of the honorees:

Adriana Lafaille, Alan Pampanin, Annelise M.J. De Araujo, Anthony Drago, Anthony M. Marino, Audrey Meredith Robert-Ramirez, Beata I. Weiss, Bennett Savitz, Christina A. Corbaci, Daniel P. Harrington, Edward R. White, Ellen B. Sullivan, Heidi L. Snyder, Joseph Molina Flynn, Julio Cortes Del Olmo, Leslie Tuttle Ditrani, Lisa S. Locher, Mary E. Walsh, Matthew J. Maiona, Meredith Stewart, Michelle Gergerian, Miki, Kawashima Matrician, Philip C. Curtis, Prasant D. Desai, Punam Singh Rogers, Richard Iandoli, Robin O’Donoghue, Russell B. Swapp, Sara Ward, Scott J. FitzGerald, Shiva Karimi, Susan B. Church, Vincent W. Lau, William L. Coffman, William E. Graves.