$ 500-700 per hour
Steven D. Heller is the Founder and Director of Heller Immigration Law, Ltd., a UK limited company providing expert advice on US immigration and nationality law. He has been practicing US immigration law since 1992.
He began practicing with a small Washington, DC firm. He then joined the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in New York, and later Newark, before returning to legal practice with the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA), a New York-based non-profit organization. He subsequently returned to the government, taking positions with US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) headquarters in Washington, DC. In 2006, he relocated to the UK where, after a brief foray into private client representation with the Brighton solicitors firm of Burt, Brill & Cardens, he rejoined USCIS as an adjudicator at the US Embassy in London. He left USCIS to join the London firm of Gudeon & McFadden, before establishing his own practice on the south coast of England.
Steven has experience in representing individuals and businesses in matters ranging from family- and business-based immigration to inadmissibility waivers and protection issues, as well as citizenship and naturalization.
A 1991 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and a member of the New York Bar, he has spoken on US immigration matters before various groups and associations, including the American Bar Association, the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and community groups.
He has been quoted in UK media and appeared on CNN as an expert in US immigration law. He has published articles on US immigration including articles in Benders Immigration Bulletin, Immigration Briefings, AILA’s Immigration Today, and the Solicitor’s Journal (UK). He is also the co-author, with Cheri Sicard, of US Citizenship for Dummies.
Steven D. Heller is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association(AILA) and the New York City Bar Association.
Heller Immigration Law, Ltd.
St. Anne's House
111 High Street
Lewes, East Sussex
BN7 1XY
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1273 434609
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Practice Areas
33 years | 1,000 cases
32 years | 200 cases
$ 500-700 per hour
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Posted by anonymous | February 08, 2017 | Hired Attorney | Immigration
E2 Visa approval after denial
I wanted to make quite apparent that Steven Heller is hands down the finest attorney I've dealt with thus far. I approached Steven quite distrought after facing a 214b denial on my E2 application in 2016. In the initial consultation I explained my case and why the officer at the US Embassy thought a ...
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2015
Best for Visa Waiver Program, Acquisition International-
2014
Business Immigration Attorney of the Year - UK., Acquisitions International
2008 - Present
Director, Heller Immigration Law, Ltd.
2007 - 2008
Associate, Gudeon & McFadden
2006 - 2007
Adjudications Officer, USCIS-US Embassy, London
2004 - 2006
Asylum Officer, USCIS-Headquarters
2003 - 2004
Adjudications Officer, USCIS-Headquarters
2000 - 2002
Supervising Attorney, NYANA Legal Services
1994 - 1994
Temporary Litigation Support, Debevoise & Plimpton
1994 - 2000
Asylum Officer, Immigration & Naturalization Service (Ins)
1992 - 1993
Attorney, Law Office of Irena I. Karpinski
1991 - 1993
Fellow, Center for International Environmental Law
1987 - 1988
Reporter, Gannett Westchester Newspapers
2015 - Present
American Immigration Lawyers Association (New York City Area chapter)Member
2008 - Present
American Immigration Lawyers Association (Rome District chapter)Member
2000 - Present
American Immigration Lawyers AssociatrionMember
2014 - 2015
American Immigration Lawyers Association (Rome District chapter)USCIS/CBP Committee Chair
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Success
1991
JD
1987
BA
2017
Waivers of Inadmissibility (Immigrants)
2016
Waivers of Inadmissibility
2016
Waivers of Inadmissibility
2015
Intercountry Adoptions
2013
2013
Addressing Visa Denials
2008
Waivers of Inadmissibility
2003
Intercountry Adoptions
2002
Special Immigrant Juveniles
2016
2016
2008
2003
English
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