2/11/2012
Join some of the nation's leading experts on EB-5 including Ira Kurzban, Ron Klasko, Martin Lawler and Jan Pederson in this one day affordable continuing education seminar offered by the LA County Bar Assn. EB-5: Still the Gold Mountain is the organi...
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1/1/2012
For the ninth year in a row, Alice Yardum-Hunter has been named a "Super Lawyer" by Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics. Additionally, she was named to participate on their Blue Ribbon Panel of lawyers who vet other nominees. The "Super Lawyer" d...
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12/5/2011
SEVP has been recertifying schools, some of which have automatically withdrawn from SEVIS certification.

If this happens, CIS writes:

"Don't panic!
Contact your desigtnated school official about your options.
Finish the current semester/term ...
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Alice M. Yardum-Hunter, Certified Specialist since inception of the Immigration and Nationality program in 1989, and Former Commissioner, Board of Legal Specialization, California State Bar from 1993 - 1995, has practiced immigration and nationality law for more than 30 years. Alice is First Vice Chair of the L.A. County Bar Association, Immigration Section and also served as its Second Vice Chair, Secretary, Liaison with the Port of Los Angeles’, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services California Service Center, and U.S. Department of Labor.

She represents employers and aliens in employment based nonimmigrant and immigrant cases, with a focus on those who are extraordinary or in the U.S. national interest, specialty occupation, professional and skilled workers, family based immigration, citizenship by descent, and complex naturalization and removal matters including for criminal aliens. Her grandfather was an extraordinary immigrant inventor of 20 machines in the food manufacturing industry having invented, for example, the sugar cone for ice cream.

Ms. Hunter has been designated as a “Super Lawyer” by the Journals, Law and Politics and Los Angeles Magazine every year since inception from 2004 to 2011. In 2010 she was additionally awarded as a “Top Attorney” by Pasadena Magazine. She has served on the Distance Learning Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, for which she has been a speaker and editor of two books including Practice before the Department of Labor and California Chapters Conference Handbook. She has been a member of AILA since 1984. Ms. Yardum-Hunter also wrote a chapter in ilw.com’s 2009 Consular Post Handbook. She has delivered talks for ilw.com, the American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Assn., various county and ethnic bar associations, as well as several universities, business and human resources groups. In 2007, she was nominated as among the top 25 lawyers practicing among 9,000 in the San Fernando Valley.

Ms. Yardum-Hunter has served as an expert witness in personal injury litigation concerning the value of lost wages of an alien plaintiff and in divorce proceedings on the value of an alien’s future earnings relative to the issue of spousal support.

In addition to her own practice, earlier in her career she began as an Intern for the World Health Organization’s legal department in Geneva, Switzerland and for five years was Of Counsel with Mark A. Ivener, a Law Corporation where she focused on labor certification matters which are required for the bulk of employer sponsored immigrant cases.

Correspondence between Ms. Yardum-Hunter and William Ho-Gonzalez, General Counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, provided the “gold standard” of permissible inquiry about any job applicant’s immigration status nationally and was published in 70 Interpreter Releases, October 4, 1993. Also published by the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. was an unpublished decision of the Administrative Appeals Office, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service 1990 decision holding that the field of Purchasing Management is a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes.

She studied law at the Institute on Comparative and International Law which is associated with the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Salzburg, Austria and the University of San Diego School of Law. Also, she is a recipient of a grant from the Dana Foundation for her post-J.D. LLM studies in International Law. Ms. Yardum-Hunter received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hofstra University’s New College. She is licensed to practice in the State of California, the U.S. Central and Southern Districts Courts and the Supreme Court of the United States.

This website provides general information regarding immigration options to the U.S.It does not substitute for legal advice and does not form an attorney client relationship. For further information or to schedule an appointment call 818 609 1953 or fill out an initial consultation request on our homepage at: http://yardum-hunter.com/Main/Consultation.asp. Thank you for visiting our website.



    

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December 1, 2011

Thank you with all my heart for the professional services provided by Alice Yardum-Hunter, Attorney at Law. Each and every person in the group is highly professional. The firm's expertise, honesty, dedication, and responsiveness to my very unique and complicated immigration case,...
Israel Landau


09/20/11

When my then-future wife was whisked away at the Immigration/Customs counter at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, I was concerned, but not overly worried. After all, she had a 10 year Visa that allowed her to stay in the U.S. 6 months at a time - I knew that couldn't be the...
Bru & Aina Muller


August 20, 2011

Alice,
Thank you for your kind comments. I love your periodic newsletter - it is very informative and very professional. You are a wonderful friend to Canadian-Americans, and I don't hesitate to recommend you when there is an opportunity to do so.

David ...
David Carruthers


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