Varsha M Kayi

Varsha M Kayi

5.0
Rating: 6.7

Licensed for 13 years

Immigration Lawyer at Washington, DC
Practice Areas: Immigration, International Law, Domestic Violence

1140 3rd St. NE, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC

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Licenses

Licensed in Maryland for 13 years

State: Maryland

Acquired: 2012

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Location

Alight Legal PLLC

1140 3rd St. NE, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC, 20002

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Varsha M Kayi's Reviews

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27 Client Reviews

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Posted by Eshetu | November 20, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Immigration

Appreciation

If you are serious about your immigration case and looking for dependable immigration lawyer, then you should have Varsha M Kayi. She looks and reviews your case seriously and provides quality service. I am very happy to have her as a lawyer and she helped me a lot to close my case successfully. I s...trongly recommend her and her firm for everybody who looks for reliable and committed immigration lawyer.

Posted by Kibrom | April 06, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Immigration

One of my brilliant decisions of my life is hiring Varsha as my immigration lawyer.

Varsha M Kayi has been my Immigration Lawyer since November 2015 until, finally , my asylum case was granted in late 2017. She had worked on my case with great passion and brilliant expertise. Around 60 of the emails had been answered within 24 hours , all of my requests for a meeting had been gran...ted and all of my inquiries had been answered properly. I am very grateful for Varsha on how she encouraged me to build a strong case and gather as much evidence as I can. She did a very great Job on creating a blue print and road map of my case that greatly helped me to better grasp the picture of the process as whole. Her way of handling the case neatly and Methodically is astonishing. As a result we were able to complete and submit my case within short period of time. How ever, more than just a lawyer , Varsha is a very compassionate and humane professional who not only understands the story but feels the intensity. I feel grateful to appreciate her dedication and her willingness to go above and beyond to build my case and attempt to expedite it to an interview. After my interview I had to wait for my result for an unknown time. During this time Varsha not only stood by my side to encourage me but also followed my case until she made sure I was granted my asylum. Thank you Varsha! you are definitely a unique lawyer.

Posted by Mo | March 19, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Immigration

Very professional, honest lawyer

I went to Kayi & Wilkes PLLC for Consultation at the beginning because I want to apply for Permanent Residency (Green Card) for my mother. And I want a lawyer who I can trust especially I was about to get deployed and I would not be in DC for a long time. After I met with Varsha, Varsha Kyi's honesty..., proficiently and knowledge convinced me to hire her to handle my mother case. Varsha Kyi know what she is doing and she doing and she did it in the best way. Varsha level of communication with us during the case was fast and effective even when I had my concerns as a result of the President's new executive orders at that time and how that may affect my mother case since my mother from one of the countries listed on the executive order, she addressed my concerns the best that she could and she kept me informed and update. She showed compassion and sympathy towards my mother case, a mother of a U.S. citizen who is an active military member would have her case held up solely because she was born in Sudan. But thank God, the efforts she made to expedite my case were efficient and successful, my mother had her green card in less than a seven months since the case has opened. Thank you so much Varsha Kayi

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Kaitlyn O'Shaughnessy

Immigration lawyer | Jan 26

Relationship: Worked together on matter

"Varsha is an excellent, detail-oriented attorney. I have worked with her on several matters, and she always has thoughtful and creative ways of approaching her cases. I regularly rely on her expertise for tricky consular processing cases."

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Kaitlyn O'Shaughnessy

Immigration lawyer

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David Saffold

Immigration lawyer

Experience

Rating:  6.7 (Good)

Work Experience

2013 - Present

Attorney & Managing Partner, Alight Legal PLLC (formerly Kayi & Wilkes PLLC)

2013 - 2014

Associate Attorney, Law Offices of David R. Saffold

2012 - 2016

Pro bono an, Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition

2011 - 2011

Legal Intern, Catholic Charities Immigration Services

2011 - 2011

Judicial Law Intern, U.S. Dept Of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

2011 - 2011

Law Clerk, Trow & Rahal

Associations

2014 - 2018

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Member

2013 - 2018

Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Member

Sample of Legal Cases

Affirmative Asylum

Granted

Defensive Asylum

Granted

Defensive Asylum

Granted

VAWA Petition

Approved

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Education

2008

George Washington University

BA - Bachelor of Arts

N/A

University of Maryland School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

N/A

Oxford University

International Human Rights Program

Languages

English

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