Lynn Garfinkel

After more than 15 years advocating and fighting for foreign nationals with full-service contracts, Lynn Garfinkel, has restructured her practice to serve more clients. She is now consulting, on an hourly basis, as needed to guide clients that are working on their own cases. Ms. Garfinkel will review forms, discuss and suggest evidence, and provide tips and guidance on immigration cases. She has experience with temporary and permanent visas (green cards), family and work/employment  based petitions, naturalization issues, waivers, asylum, and deportation defense (also called removal proceedings or immigration court). Ms. Garfinkel has also successfully represents foreign national survivors of abuse petitioning for benefits under the Violence Against Women Act clients and to obtain religious, political, and gender-based asylum for nearly a decade. Ms. Garfinkel has also been helping. Finally, Ms. Garfinkel also successfully represents foreign national survivors of abuse petitioning for benefits under the Violence Against Women Act.

For three years, Garfinkel served as Chair of the Asylum Office Liaison Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, DC Chapter. She is also a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars. She previously served as the Vice Chair of the AILA Washington Immigration Court Liaison Committee. Ms. Garfinkel has engaged in volunteer human rights advocacy work for Amnesty International's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. For five years, she served as the Representative to the Special Initiatives Grant Committee.

Previously, Ms. Garfinkel completed her undergraduate studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Having studied abroad in France and South Korea, she self-designed her undergraduate degree in international development. After working at national organizations advocating for low-income families, she earned her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Massachusetts. During law school, she was a teaching assistant and participated in a prisoner's rights and death penalty cert. clinics. As part of her school’s program, she interned at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and the Office of the Federal Public Defender for DC.