Vicki Yudenfriend, Of Counsel

Vicki Yudenfriend, of counsel to Masliah & Soloway, is a graduate of Boston University School of law and has practiced Immigration law for over twenty years.  Her practice has focused on business and family immigration.  She has represented corporations ranging from hospitals to engineering firms as well as individuals including artists, professionals and skilled workers.  She has also represented individuals in family immigration.  Ms. Yudenfriend   has spoken  at AILA meetings on topics such as IMMACT 90 and issues relating to the employment of foreign nurses.  Her interest in immigration law was sparked by her advocacy work in the 1980s and 1990s with people in the former Soviet Union who were denied permission to leave the country.  After traveling to Russia on two occasions, she lectured frequently at universities and civic organizations.  Even after many years working in the field, Ms. Yudenfriend continues to enjoy her work immensely because of the challenge and excitement of helping people make new beginnings.  

Masliah & Soloway Opens Los Angeles Office

We are excited to announce the opening of our Los Angeles office, located at 8436 W. Third Street, just east of La Cienega Boulevard. With the addition of this new office, Masliah & Soloway is better positioned to provide immigration law services to clients in southern California as we continue to grow and establish ourselves as a national immigration law firm.

To schedule a consultation with our Los Angeles office please e-mail info@Masliah-Soloway.com or call 323-556-9720.

Noemi Masliah Selected by SuperLawyers as "Seriously Outstanding"

Seriously Outstanding

only 5% selected each year

This month Noemi Masliah was selected as on of the few "seriously outstanding" attorneys in the field of immigration and nationality law in the New York metropolitan area.

Jorge Campos, Fabrice Van Michel Join M & S

This year we welcomed two recent LLM graduates to the firm. Both have sat for the New York Bar exam and both look forward to applying for admission to the bar soon. Together they represent a diverse background of life experiences, education and employment histories. They are now hard at work as law clerks alongside the attorneys in our office working on issues ranging from employment and family based immigration to asylum applications.

Jorge Campos has been engaged in detailed analytic international law issues for more than eight years. Between 2001 and 2005, Jorge served as an attorney for Grupo ICA in Mexico City, providing legal advice in connection with international financial transactions and labor law. Between 1996 and 2001 he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Mexico City as an in-house counsel providing legal advice on a broad range of issues including immigration and labor law, employee benefits, tax and corporate law. In 2006, he received his LLM from Fordham University in Information Technology and Intellectual Property. Prior to that he received his MBA from Thunderbird, the International School of Business Management in Glendale, Arizona. In 1999 he received his masters in Labor Law from Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico in Mexico City and was admitted to practice in Mexico in the same year, Jorge Campos received his law degree in 1997 from Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico in Mexico city He is fluent in English and Spanish.

Fabrice Van Michel is a native of Belgium but was raised in Germany and France. With a focus on immigration, he obtained a law degree at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, a Master’s degree in European studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, and a second Master’s degree in Human Rights at the University of Louvain. For several years thereafter he practiced immigration and asylum law at the Conseil d'Etat, the highest administrative court in Belgium. Fluent in French, German, English, and Spanish, he co-authored the publication "Freedom of Movement of Persons", a discourse on worker immigration throughout the European Union, a subject he further explored while volunteering with the NGO "Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants" (PICUM). In 2008, Fabrice completed his LL.M at Columbia Law School in New York City as a Fulbright scholar.

Lobbying for Immigration Reform

On April 3, 2008, I participated in the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association’s National Day of Action by going to Washington DC and visiting the legislative counsel or assistants of some New York State Congressional delegations. As I do every year on that day, I, together with AILA members from around the country, lobbied for our country’s Senators and Representatives to fix the devastatingly broken immigration system. My group visited the offices of Representatives Vito Fossella, Michael McNulty and Jerrold Nadler. I joined another group in speaking to Senator Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Counsel and a Legislative Fellow. At each stop, we pushed for increases in the quota numbers for family- and employment-based immigrant visa categories. We described the need for additional highly skilled foreign workers and for a reinstatement of the previous benefits which had been available to the once approved H-2B workers. We suggested a special immigrant category for nurses in light of the dire shortage felt by all the hospitals around the country. Passage of the Dream Act, that no brainer of statute, was again encouraged. Not missing the opportunity, I again impressed each of our listeners of the importance of enacting the Uniting American Families Act and of repealing the HIV ban from the immigration law. Of course, we all agreed that the passage of a comprehensive reform package where all of these ameliorative changes would be included was the ideal but not one of these offices seemed optimistic that such a package could pass at this time. Each of them seemed to think that a piecemeal approach had more possibilities in the near future.

Something tells me that I will be back to lobby Congress next year.

Noemi Masliah

Masliah & Soloway Joins Protest In Support of Pakistani Lawyers

The lawyers of Masliah and Soloway joined hundreds of their colleagues a public rally today in front of the New York Supreme Court at 60 Centre Street to express solidarity with our beleaguered colleagues at the Pakistani bar. In protesting Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf’s November 6, 2007 declaration of a state of emergency and his unilateral suspension of the country’s constitution, many Pakistani lawyers have been arrested, including the President of their Bar Association. The violent repression of lawyers anywhere cannot go unnoticed.