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About the firm

Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC represents corporate and individual clients in complex and routine immigration law matters. The firm has a growing group of extremely talented lawyers and support staff who work closely with clients in the areas of business immigration, labor certifications, removal defense, waivers, federal court litigation, citizenship, and related matters. The firm’s Managing Partner, Cyrus Mehta, is an internationally recognized immigration attorney who is regularly invited to speak on immigration subjects by bar associations, non-profits and universities. Unlike many other firms that tend to specialize in one aspect of immigration law, the firm is unique insofar that it has developed equal expertise in representing large corporations regarding their immigration needs as well as representing individuals in business and family immigration, citizenship, removal or asylum matters. As a result of this broad expertise, the firm is able to provide comprehensive representation to a client in virtually every immigration-related matter. The firm is committed to providing exceptional services to its clients, often under complex and novel circumstances, whether the client is a corporation or an individual. The firm’s well trained and dedicated staff, who speak several languages, will make every effort to provide the most optimum, ethical and creative solutions to meet each client’s objective. The firm has also often succeeded where other lawyers have failed. Chambers USA 2024 has stated that the firm is “[r]enowned for its capacity to offer counsel on highly complex immigration cases, with recent work including complex H-1B and L visa evidence requests and the termination of removal proceedings against clients.” The 2023 guide has also quoted sources stating:

“Their strategic approach, meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment to client service sets them apart.”

“The team are excellent communicators, being incredibly responsive and helpful.”

Through the hundreds of articles on our website and blog, we also raise public awareness of immigration trends and assist people in their grassroots advocacy efforts. In this regard, we continue to inform the public about contemporary issues of national importance, as well as advocate about the positive impact of immigrants in the United States. The firm’s attorneys are regularly invited to speak at legal seminars and conduct workshops for bar associations, non-profit organizations and universities. We also write articles for newspapers, online publications and appear on television. The media regularly seeks our views on immigration and related issues. The firm’s present and past attorneys hold and have held high-level positions in bar associations, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Immigration Council, New York City Bar, the New York City Bar Justice Center and other prestigious non-profit organizations. The firm has successfully litigated claims on behalf of non-citizens in immigration court, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), federal district courts and courts of appeal, often on novel issues and cases of first impression. For example, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled favorably in a cancellation of removal case, Pareja v. Att’y Gen., 615 F.3d 180 (3d Cir. 2010). We have also had success in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on asylum cases, as in Karijomenggolo v. Gonzales, 173 Fed. Appx. 34 (2d Cir. 2006). CDMP’s attorneys also provided amicus support in an important federal district court decision establishing a broader definition for equivalent foreign degrees in employment-based immigrant visa petitions, Grace Korean United Methodist Church v. Chertoff, 437 F. Supp. 2d 1174 (D. Or. 2005). We have also had recent success at the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA), in Matter of Marlabs, Inc., 2013-PER-01125 (BALCA 2017), as well as in unpublished decisions of the BIA and AAO such as a 2017 BIA victory terminating removal proceedings and a 2015 AAO victory in a pro bono case regarding a waiver of inadmissibility under section 212(i) of the INA.

From the Chambers USA guide

The firm is deeply committed to representing clients on cutting edge immigration issues, often times on a pro bono basis. We were among the first to win gender-based asylum claims on behalf of women who were unable to seek protection from their abusive spouses from their home countries. The firm has conducted monthly pro bono clinics for a community-based organization, and has also supported the constituents of various non-profits in the area of immigration issues arising from domestic violence, persecution and HIV/AIDS. The firm has also assisted such organizations in obtaining visas for artists or their professional employees on a pro bono basis. The firm’s present and past attorneys have also been involved in leadership capacities with respect to finding ways to meet the unmet legal needs of the immigrant population. The firm’s attorneys have served as mentors for the Know Your Rights Project that provided pro bono advice to detainees whose cases are handled by the Varick Street, N.Y. Immigration Court. The firm’s attorneys have also travelled to remote immigration detention facilities and provided pro bono representation to detained immigrants and asylum seekers in their immigration proceedings. The firm has also housed two AILA – New York Pro Bono Fellows. The firm, through Mr. Mehta, is a select member of the prestigious Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), http://www.abil.com/, which is comprised of 20 top U.S. business immigration lawyers and their respective firms, who value great legal ability and provide high standards of care and concern. Its affiliate entity, ABIL Global, adds another 14 lawyers. ABIL now has over 150 attorneys (400+ total staff) devoted to business immigration in 37 major cities throughout the world, providing the most comprehensive, personalized coverage available.

Cyrus Mehta

Cyrus Mehta portrait

Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta represents corporations and individuals from around the world in a variety of immigration matters, including business, employment, entrepreneur and investor immigration, asylum and ethics. Based on over 30 years of experience in immigration law, he is able to comprehend all kinds of problems and provide effective and ethical solutions to clients. Mr. Mehta has successfully represented clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Administrative Appeals Office, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals, Department of Labor, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, DHS and EOIR Disciplinary Counsel and the federal courts.

Mr. Mehta is the Editor-in-Chief of the AILA Law Journal and conceived of the first ever AILA Law Journal Symposium in 2024. He is the immediate past Chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee. While on the Ethics Committee, Mr. Mehta initiated the AILA Ethics Compendium, which is now published as a book. Mr. Mehta is also an active board member of The New York Immigration Coalition and a board member of Volunteers of Legal Services. He is also special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Division, First Department, New York. Mr. Mehta is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches a course entitled Immigration and Work.

Mr. Mehta is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council, former Chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New York City Bar, former Secretary of the New York City Bar, and former Chair of AILA’s Pro Bono Committee. He has also served as a member on numerous national and local AILA committees in the past.

Mr. Mehta received the prestigious AILA 2018 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law, the AILA 2011 Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the immigration field and the AILA 1997 Joseph Minsky Young Lawyers Award for outstanding contributions in the immigration field. He has also received three AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010, 2016 and 2020. Mr. Mehta is ranked highly by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law and also by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in immigration law, among other rankings.

Mr. Mehta is also a member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), whose members have been recognized internationally in the field of business immigration, and are committed to the highest standards of professionalism. Newspapers, magazines and television constantly seek Mr. Mehta out for his expert opinions on immigration law and policy. Mr. Mehta is a very frequent speaker at AILA conferences on both a national and regional level. He is also a featured speaker at immigration seminars of the Practising Law Institute (PLI), and has been the Program Chair of PLI’s annual Basic Immigration Law program and the companion program entitled Asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Crime Victim, and Other Immigration Relief for many years. Mr. Mehta is also the author of several influential articles that have appeared in professional publications such as Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, Interpreter Releases, Immigration Briefings, AILA Law Journal and AILA’s Immigration Practice Pointers, as well as weekly posts that appear on the firm’s blog, The Insightful Immigration Blog, which is archived in the Library of Congress and has provided thought leadership in immigration policy. These posts are republished in LexisNexis Immigration News and Lexology, among other media.

Mr. Mehta graduated with a BA degree from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay University, and subsequently obtained law degrees from Cambridge University, England (BA in Law, MA in Law), and Columbia Law School, New York (LL.M). Mr. Mehta is admitted to the New York State Bar and is also admitted to practice law in India. He is admitted to the US Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals of the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

In his spare time, Mr. Mehta plays the violin and is a member of the Broadway Bach Ensemble.

Click here to view all posts by Cyrus Mehta on The Insightful Immigration Blog.

Speaking Engagements of Cyrus D. Mehta

Publications of Cyrus D. Mehta

David A. Isaacson

David Isaacson

David A. Isaacson is a Partner at Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners, PLLC where he works on immigration and nationality law matters. David’s practice includes a variety of family-based and employment-based applications for both nonimmigrant visas and permanent residence, as well as waivers, naturalization and citizenship matters, asylum cases, other removal proceedings such as those stemming from criminal convictions or denied applications for adjustment of status, and federal litigation.

David received his J.D. in 2004 from Yale Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, David clerked for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining the firm, David worked in the Litigation Department at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he devoted a significant amount of time to pro bono immigration matters involving asylum, the Child Status Protection Act, INA section 245(i), and the immigration treatment of adopted children.

David is a graduate of Princeton University, where he earned an A.B. in Economics, summa cum laude, and also received certificates in Finance, German Language and Culture, and Political Economy. He is the author of Correcting Anomalies in the United States Law of Citizenship by Descent, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 313 (2005), reprinted in 26 Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev. 515 (2006), and Waiving Goodbye to Unappealable Decisions: Indirect AAO Jurisdiction, or Why Having Your Appeal Dismissed Can Sometimes Be a Good Thing, 20 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 831 (Aug. 1, 2015).

David is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey; in Ontario, Canada; in the U.S. Supreme Court; in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits; and in the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, the District of Connecticut, the Eastern District of Michigan, the District of New Jersey, the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York, and the Western District of Pennsylvania. He is co-chair of the Federal Litigation Committee of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and a past co-chair of the CBP Committee of the New York Chapter of AILA, and has spoken on panels at the AILA Annual Conferences in 2021, 2017-2019, 2012-2015, and 2010, as well as other AILA events, regarding family-based immigration, citizenship issues, ethics, criminal immigration issues, removal proceedings and federal court review. He is included in Chambers USA, and the 2020-2024 editions of Super Lawyers, regarding immigration law in the New York area. (These listings are not approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.) He was counsel for the petitioner in Pareja v. Att’y Gen., 615 F. 3d 180 (3d Cir. 2010).

Click here to view all posts by David A. Isaacson on The Insightful Immigration Blog.

Publications of David A. Isaacson

Waiving Goodbye to Unappealable Decisions: Indirect AAO Jurisdiction, or Why Having Your Appeal Dismissed Can Sometimes Be a Good Thing, 20 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 829, 831-836 (August 1, 2015).
Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio: Does the Dark Cloud Have a Silver Lining?, by Cyrus D. Mehta, David A. Isaacson & Gary Endelman, 19 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 1019, 1021-1027 (September 15, 2014).
Dadaism—Navigating the New Era of Withdrawable Applications for Voluntary Departure, 11th Annual AILA New York Chapter Immigration Law Symposium Handbook (2008 edition)
Correcting Anomalies in the United States Law of Citizenship by Descent, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 313 (2005), reprinted in 26 Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev. 515 (2006).
For other online articles on contemporary immigration issues, see www.cyrusmehta.com and The Insightful Immigration Blog, http://blog.cyrusmehta.com .

Speaking Engagements of David A. Isaacson

Kaitlyn Box

Kaitlyn Box is a Senior Associate at Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC.. She works with corporate and individual clients in a wide variety of immigration and nationality matters, including labor certification, EB-1 petitions, nonimmigrant visa petitions (H-1B, TN, L, O, E-2, etc.), adjustment of status, consular matters, naturalization matters, waivers, family petitions, asylum, cancellation of removal, and TPS. She regularly represents clients during I-130, adjustment of status, and N-400 interviews before USCIS. She also assists with ethics matters for immigration lawyers.

Ms. Box earned her J.D., cum laude, from Penn State Law, where she served as the Managing Editor of Research for the Journal of Law and International Affairs and earned several CALI awards, including for her coursework in immigration law. She was also a member of the nationally recognized Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (CIRC), and provided research assistance to CIRC’s Director and renowned immigration scholar, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia.

Ms. Box graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science and French from Drury University in Springfield, MO. She is the author or co-author of several articles in publications like the AILA Law Journal, Frontiers, and Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, co-authored an ethics article for AILA InfoNet, and is a frequent co-contributor to the Insightful Immigration Blog. Ms. Box is admitted to practice in New York. She speaks fluent French and has a working knowledge of Spanish. Ms. Box is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the New York State Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association.

Publications of Kaitlyn Box

Wage Transparency Laws Add Extra Layer of Complexity to Labor Certification Recruitment by Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box, PLI Chronicle: Insights and Perspectives for the Legal Community, March 2023.
United States v. Hansen: Supreme Court Once Again Agrees to Hear Constitutionality of a Smuggling Statute That Could Impact Immigration Lawyers by Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box, AILA Infonet AILA Doc. No. 23032400, March 23, 2023.
Immigration Relief for Ukrainian Refugees: What the United States Is Currently Offering by Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box & Jessica Paszko, PLI Chronicle: Insights and Perspectives for the Legal Community, April 20, 2022.
The Facebook Settlement Resolving Claims of Discrimination Against U.S. Workers Only Adds to the Contradictions in the Labor Certification Program by Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, March 15, 2022.
CSPA Triumphs in Cuthill v. Blinken: Child of Parent who Naturalizes Should Not be Penalized by Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, October 15, 2021.
The Ethics of Representing a Client In Person During the Pandemic by Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box, AILA InfoNet AILA Doc. No. 21031137, March 11, 2021.
COVID-19 and Immigration: Reflections From the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, by Kaitlyn Box & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Migration in the Time of COVID-19: Comparative Law and Policy Responses, November 17, 2020.
ITServe Alliance v. Cissna A Victory—Perhaps Temporary—for H-1B Beneficiaries and Petitioners, by Kaitlyn Box, AILA Law Journal, October 2020.
Critique of 1989 Department of State Country Reports,” Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, July 1990.

Dominic Kong

Dominic Kong Mr. Kong is an Associate Attorney at Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC. He has over 25 years of experience working exclusively in the area of immigration and nationality law. His primary field of endeavor is in employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant visa petitions, including H-1B petitions, L-1 petitions, E-3 applications, TN applications, labor certification applications, national interest waiver for exceptional ability aliens, and extraordinary ability alien immigrant visa petitions. He has represented multi-national companies, businesses, schools, and individuals in various industries, including high-technology, medical, allied health care, restaurants and hospitality, education, construction, and architectural and interior design. Mr. Kong has also represented small business employers in I-9 employer sanctions investigations, litigation and settlement negotiations. His extensive experience in immigration law also includes E-1/E-2 Treaty Trader and Treaty Investor visa applications, R-1 religious workers visa applications, family-based immigrant visa petitions, K-1/2 fiancée, K-3/4 spouse and children of U.S. citizens, V-1/2 spouse of lawful permanent resident nonimmigrant visa petitions, and naturalization applications. He is fluent in English and Cantonese Chinese.

Mr. Kong received his Juris Doctor degree (Cum Laude) from New York Law School in 1996. He is a member of the Bars of New Jersey, New York, District of Columbia, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and U.S. Court of International Trade.

Mr. Kong is also a Solicitor of England & Wales, United Kingdom (regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority).

Additionally, he is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York City Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association.

Jessica Paszko

Jessica Paszko is an Associate at Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC where she works on an array of employment and family based immigration matters. She helps corporate clients obtain nonimmigrant and immigrant visas for temporary and permanent employees, including H-1B, O-1, L-1, EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-5 and TN visas. She also helps individual clients with adjustment of status, change of status, and fiancé visa applications.

Jessica graduated with a B.B.A. in Marketing Management from Baruch College in 2018. She then earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2021, where she served as Chair of the Brooklyn Law Immigration Society and Associate Editor of the Journal of Law and Policy. Jessica received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for having written the highest scoring brief in Deportation Defense: Workshop as well as the BLS Silver Pro Bono Award for having completed over 600 hours of pro bono work.

Jessica is admitted to practice in New York State. She is a recurring co-contributor to the Insightful Immigration Blog and speaks fluent Polish.

Manjeeta Chowdhary

Manjeeta Chowdhary is an Associate at Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC where she works on non-immigrant visa cases such as H-1B, L-1A, L-1B and immigrant visa cases such as EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 and Adjustment of Status applications.

Prior to joining Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC, Manjeeta worked as an attorney and as a law clerk at top-tier immigration law firms, where she reviewed and prepared a high-volume of nonimmigrant visa cases and immigrant visa cases, including employment-based adjustment of status applications and family-based adjustment of status applications.

Manjeeta graduated with an LL.M from Fordham Law School in New York and an LL.B from Government Law College in Mumbai, and is admitted to practice in New York State. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and enjoys helping people in pursuing their American dream.

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