Attorneys at Law
Immigration
We are qualified to handle US Immigration Cases from anywhere in the country.
Office: 703.933.0266
We focus on Business Immigration Law.
After Hours/Emergency Line: 703.898.0448
Our Immigration Lawyers handle all areas of Immigration law. We represent employers and employees for nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions, including the H-1b visa, L visa, PERM and employment based green cards. We also represent individuals with family based visa petitions including the K3, K1 (fiancé visa) and family based green cards. Other important immigration matters we handle include asylum claims, investment visas, VAWA petitions (Violence Against Women's Act) and citizenship cases, among others.
About Terpak & Shakil:
Our mission is to provide prompt, high quality legal services to benefit the lives of our clients. From complex immigration or personal injury matters to simple traffic cases, our attorneys understand that communication is a key to success. You need confidence that your lawyer understands your problem and is working with you to achieve results. Call us to find out how we provide superior service to our clients.
If you need a Washington DC Immigration Attorney or an Northern Virginia Immigration Attorney, we have offices conveniently located to serve your Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. location. At Terpak & Shakil, we strive to build a partnership for success with every client.
Our clients range from individuals to large corporations, and we regularly appear in state and federal courts. Based in Arlington, Virginia, a few miles from Washington D.C. and Maryland, we accept personal injury and traffic cases in Virginia and we handle U.S. immigration cases worldwide.
Memberships:
Virginia State Bar, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Our Northern Virginia Location:
943 S. George Mason Drive, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22204
Immigration Practice Areas
Permanent Residency / Green Cards
Our Immigratin Lawyers explore all routes to permanent residency. Options may include a family based green card, an employment based green card, a green card through asylum, a national interest waiver, or a green card through the lottery.
Work Visas
Our clients often seek temporary and permanent residence in the US based on employment or investment. We represent employers sponsoring highly skilled workers, including software engineers, lawyers, educators and doctors. Call our offices with basic or complicated questions regarding H visas, L visas, E-1 (Treaty trader), E-2 (Treaty Investor).
PERM Cases
Are you an employer or employee with questions about PERM? A successful PERM application is often the first step to an employment based green card. However, PERM cases are complex. We have obtained PERM certifications for highly technical occupations including economists, civil engineers, teachers, lawyers, architects, computer programmers and computer systems analysts.
Family Based Nonimmigrant Petitions
There are various nonimmigrant visas which allow U.S. citizens to bring their spouses, children and fiancés to the United States. Our Immigration Lawyers can help you explore the K-1 and K-3 options.
Citizenship
Before filing for citizenship, it is important to review your case for problems. The best time to deal with an issue is before the case is submitted to the government.
Asylum
Are you unable or unwilling to return to home country because of persecution or a well founded fear of persecution based on religion, race, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular group? If so, we may be able to help you stay in the United States.
Immigration News
US Supreme Court Affirms State's Right to Penalize Businesses for Immigration Violations:
May 26, 2011: States may require employers to verify the eligibility of new workers through a federal database and revoke the business licenses of those who have violated the law.
Source: AP
Over 130 in Custody after Northern Virginia Immigration Sweep:
March 23, 2011: Some of those picked up had been convicted of rape, assault, burglary and drug possession, but they had served their time and been released before immigration officials launched programs such as Secure Communities, which enables local jails to submit fingerprints of everyone arrested to a nationwide immigration database, or the 287(g) program, which gave federal immigration authority to local departments. Some were in the country legally, some were not. Even those with legal status can forfeit that status if they commit crimes of “moral turpitude” or receive sentences of a year or more.
Source: Washington Post
If you have questions about the status of a worker, or if you would like to sponsor a foreign worker, call our Virginia Immigration Lawyers for a confidential evaluation. We can usually determine in a few seconds whether a person is eligible to work in the United States.
Family of Immigrant Killed by Maryland Police Awarded Millions:
March 17, 2011: The wife and son of a man killed by a Prince George’s County police officer were awarded $11.5 million by a jury on March 16, 2011 after it found the officer liable in the fatal shooting. The jury of five women and one man found that the officer intentionally violated the immigrant's constitutional rights, that he acted with malice, that he did not act in self-defense, and that he assaulted and battered the immigrant before wrongfully killing him. The officer peppered sprayed the victim and beat him with his fists and a metal police baton before shooting him, according to court testimony and evidence. Jurors deliberated for 3.5 days.
Source: The Washington Post
Press Release:
On Monday, June 11, 2007, Moona Shakil Ali presented an overview of immigration law to the Family Law Section of the Fairfax Bar Association. Ms. Shakil answered questions on a wide range of issues, including the conditional green card and VAWA (Violence Against Women Act of 1994). Ms. Shakil was asked to make the presentation to help explain immigration elements of domestic relations cases.(Click here to read Full Press Release)