Work History:

The Tungol Law Offices, Woodbridge, VA (Concentration in Immigration Law)
Of Counsel

Specializes in business immigration, PERM labor certification, and employment-based working visas (H-1B, H-2B, R-1) and immigrant petitions (I-140, I-485, I-765) for clients in the fields of healthcare, education, science, and technology.

Consistently successful in assisting clients apply for naturalization, adjustment of status, F-1 student visa, extension of nonimmigrant visas, and family-based petitions (I-129F, I-130, I-485, I-765, I-751).

Handles pro– and low-bono cases regarding application for waiver, asylum, and relief from removal. Recently successful in obtaining a favorable outcome for a detained client’s aggravated felony removal case, resulting in client’s release on bond and non-detained application for cancellation of removal of LPR. (Five percent of my time is spent on clients in immigration court.)

Regularly deals with and have developed contacts at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Dept. of Labor, and U.S. Dept. of State, specifically the U.S. Embassy in Manila and the National Visa Center.

Represents employee clients filing complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); creates documents and forms for estate and trust laws; assists corporations and nonprofit organizations obtain their lawful status; and creates affidavits and power of attorneys.

Writes, edits, and posts news articles, videos, and links to The Tungol Law Office website; blogger at Fil-Am Ako; and guest columnist at the Migrant Heritage Chronicle.

Regular speaking engagements at legal clinics and informational seminars about immigrants’ rights for church and civic organizations, nonprofit groups, and other grassroots coalitions.

Madigan and Getzendanner, Chicago, IL, Executive Assistant to IL Speaker of the House

Served as personal assistant to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and responsible for preparing letters of correspondence, setting-up meetings, and scheduling conference calls.

Organizations & Languages:

Member: Illinois State Bar, American Bar Association, & AILA

Legal Advisor: Migrant Heritage Commission and Circulo Boholano of Illinois

Pro Bono/Volunteer Attorney: Catholic Charities (Hogar Hispano) in Northern Virginia

Native speaker of Tagalog and Visaya (dialect in Southern Philippines) and conversational in Spanish and French

Knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, RSS, Adobe, social networking, media monitoring, and different editorial style guides (i.e., AP, Blue Book, Chicago)

Education:
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL

Decisive Utterance School Newspaper,  Editor-in-Chief

Phi Alpha Delta, Chapter Treasurer

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Honors) Double Majors: Broadcast Journalism and Political Science