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Lawrence Gatei

4.2
Rating: 7.4

Licensed for 20 years

Immigration Lawyer at Waltham, MA
Practice Areas: Immigration, Criminal Defense, Business

411 Waverley Oaks Road, Suite 328, Waltham, MA

About Lawrence

Practice Areas

3

Practice Areas

Immigration 70%

Removal proceedings in immigration court, Defense from deportation, Family greencard application, Employment based visas and greencards, Investor based visas and greencards such as EB1-EB5, E, L, O, H-1B visas, Asylum applications, Appeals in Federal Courts, Mandamus in Federal Courts

21 years | 700 cases

70%
Criminal Defense 20%

Superior court, district court criminal representation of people with immigration issues. We represent people in criminal courts to avoid adverse immigration issues such as deportation, denial of greencard and denial of naturalization.

17 years | 100 cases

20%
Business 10%

We represent in incorporation matters, review of business plans for immigration purposes, non-profit incorporation and compliance issues, and contract review

17 years | 50 cases

10%

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Licenses

Licensed in Massachusetts for 20 years

State: Massachusetts

Acquired: 2005

Active

No misconduct found

Location

Law Offices of Lawrence Gatei

411 Waverley Oaks Road, Suite 328, Waltham, MA, 02452

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Lawrence Gatei's Reviews

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4.2 /5.0

5 Client Reviews

5 star (4)
4 star (0)
3 star (0)
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1 star (1)

Posted by Jerry | March 5, 2018 | Hired Attorney

This review is from a person who hired this attorney.

Best Lawyer

Great lawyers like Gatei are hard to find. In fact he is honest passionate caring and genuine. He is professionally wonderful. Just try him. His fee are moderate I really recommend him to all . There is no immigration issue that he can not handle. May you increase in knowledge of your profession Je...rry

Posted by Karla | June 22, 2017 | Hired Attorney

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Best Lawyer

Lawrence Is A Great A Lawyer Knows His Job Well He Has Helped My Family and I And I'm So Greatful For Him I Have No complains about him He Does A Wonderful Job My Family And Really Got Lucky on finding a Lawyer that Cares So Much And try to do the Best he can To help you Don't Regret him. Best Immigr...ation Lawyer

Posted by anonymous | December 22, 2015 | Hired Attorney

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Excellent Lawyering Skills

I had given up on my adoption process before i went into Lawrence's office. He did a wonderful job for my family- fast thinking , I found him very knowledgeable, a good a great listener. Thanks to him my family is all together.

Posted by Christina | September 25, 2014

Fast processing of Immigration Case

Following my marriage, my husband and I contacted Lawrence to process my sponsorship application. He kept us informed of the risks and benefits of the process. We completed an extensive Q&A preparation session with him. He even did additional background checks to make sure any possibilities were rule...d out. We found him to be very detailed. And our thorough presentation of our case to Immigration Authorities, enabled our application to be approved quickly. Many thanks for listening and exceeding our expectations.

Posted by ecualexus | May 10, 2012

Poor Legal representation

My file sat on his office for several months nothing was ever file in court I end up picking up my file and getting a different law firm. He wrote a letter to IMMIGRATION SERVICES but all the facts were incorrect.

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Experience

Rating:  7.4 (Very Good)

Work Experience

2008 - Present

Managing Partner, Immigration and Business Law Group, LLP

Associations

2004 - Present

American Immigration Lawyers Association

2004 - Present

American Bar Association

2004 - Present

Massachusetts Bar Association

Sample of Legal Cases

Pina v. Mukasey, 542 F. 3d 5 (1st Cir. 2008)

Court agreed with our argument and struck down a limiting 8 CFR regulation finding the government's definition of custody as being unconstitutional

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Education

2004

Boston College Law School

JD/MBA - Juris Doctorate and MBA

Languages

Spanish

Portuguese

Swahili

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