Attorney Eileen Chun-Fruto

Fong & Chun, L.L.P. - Los Angeles, CA

Eileen Chun-Fruto is a founder of Fong & Chun, LLP, a Los Angeles-based immigration law firm. She has had over 13 years of experience in immigration law with a special focus on employment-based applications including H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, O-1s, PERM, E visas and free trade visas: TN, H-1B1. Ms. Chun-Fruto has worked successfully with all industry sectors such as start-up companies, established engineering and software research and development companies, manufacturing, trade and distribution companies, public and private schools, and religious organizations. She has a special niche in working with start-up companies and individuals with more complex immigration issues, including individuals with background in the liberal arts seeking H-1B employment authorization. Ms. Chun-Fruto has also had experience with waiver applications for those who face unlawful presence bars and J-1 two year home residency requirements. Ms. Chun-Fruto is a graduate of UC Davis School of Law and UC Irvine. She was been named to Los Angeles Magazine's Southern California Rising Stars Listing in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011. No more than 2.5 percent of practicing attorneys under the age of 40 or who have been in practice for 10 years or less are named to the Rising Stars List. About Fong & Chun, LLPFong & Chun, LLP is a Los Angeles law firm with its practice devoted exclusively to immigration and nationality issues. The firm has been located in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles since 2002. Fong & Chun, LLP proudly represents foreign workers, corporations, families and individuals in all immigration related matters ranging from work authorization applications, family-based applications, and deportation defense.

Attorney Heather L. Poole

Heather L. Poole, P.C. – Pasadena, CA

Immigration Attorney Heather L. Poole primarily focuses on complicated family-based immigration law with special emphasis on waivers for unlawful presence, criminal acts, and misrepresentation, as well as conditional green card, marriage-based cases, and help for immigrant victims of crime and abuse. She regularly travels throughout the US for court appearances and CIS (immigration agency) green card, citizenship, and conditional green card waiver interviews to be by her clients' side and to protect their interests. As immigration law is all federal law, she is able to represent clients in every US state &  throughout the world.
 
Heather was named in Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine "Super Lawyer: Rising Star" for excellence in immigration law four times to date.  The Rising Star designation is an honor granted to only 2.5% of all Southern California Lawyers each year.  This is an exceptional honor, given that Southern California has the second largest population of lawyers in the US behind New York and less than 1% of immigration lawyers receive this honor.
 

She is a nationally published author and attorney trainer on immigration issues. Her articles on the  "V visa", conditional green card waivers, and modern marraige & immigration cases have been published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the pre-eminent, leading organization of immigration attorneys nationwide. Her articles have also been published in major bar association publications including Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine and The Orange County Lawyer Magazine. She is currently serving on the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Publication Board, overseeing scholarly writings and training material development for other immigration attorneys and is a speaker and trainer of other immigration lawyers for the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Los Angeles Bar Association's Immigration Section. Heather teaches Immigration Law at Fullerton College and is a regular community speaker on immigration issues to adult school classes, sexual assault crisis centers, and churches in her local community.  Heather regularly contributes to her blog: marriage-and-immigration-law.blogspot.com, which highlights special circumstances and laws related to marriage-based green card and citizenship cases. She can be reached at heather@humanrightsattorney.com or 877.HUMAN-rtS (486-2678).