Elaine Yi Ming Cheung

Elaine Cheung, Esq. is President of the Law Offices of Elaine Cheung, LLC. In 2001, Ms. Cheung graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation, she relocated to San Francisco, California and worked as a legal assistant specializing in wills and trusts and elder abuse litigation before entering law school at the University of California, Hastings.

At UC Hastings, Ms. Cheung was elected Student Body President of her law school, was a legal research & writing teacher's assistant for first year law students and was nominated for the distinguished moot court award of David E. Snodgrass Best Oralist. She has been the recipient of academic scholarships at every level of schooling from high school through law school.

Ms. Cheung was a law clerk and summer associate for the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco and Carlson Calladine & Peterson, a complex civil litigation firm in San Francisco. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she chose to return to her hometown to practice immigration law. As the daughter of immigrants, Ms. Cheung is devoted to helping her clients through the complex immigration process that many members of her family and close friends have experienced. Ms. Cheung was Senior Associate Attorney at the Law Offices of Tahir Mella before opening her own practice specializing in immigration law.

Ms. Cheung has been admitted to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, New Jersey Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and she may practice in the Executive Office of Immigration Review: Immigration Courts in all 50 states. Her other professional memberships include the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Philadelphia and American Bar Associations, and the Delaware Valley Asian-American Bar Association.

Ms. Cheung is fluent in Spanish and the Chinese dialect of Fuzhou, and she is proficient in French and Mandarin.

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