Rebecca Susan Swaintek-Green

Becca is a seasoned immigration attorney in the DMV area who specializes in removal defense, asylum, humanitarian relief, and family-based immigration. She is currently accepting work as a contract immigration, including: pre-hearing statements, BIA briefs, legal research including the immigration consequences of criminal convictions (crimmigration), coverage for EOIR hearings and USCIS interviews, ICE check-ins at Baltimore ERO, and other assignments as needed.

Becca completed the Department of Justice Attorney General's Honors Program and worked as an Attorney Advisor at the York and Baltimore Immigration Courts in the Executive Office for Immigration Review. She worked closely with Immigration Judges, advising them on complex cases and drafting judicial decisions. She handled all types of cases before the courts, including: asylum, withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture, bond proceedings, cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, humanitarian relief, and various types of immigration waivers. She focused on detained cases at the intersection of criminal and immigration law, including issues such as crimes involving moral turpitude and aggravated felonies. From there, Rebecca moved to the Office of Chief Counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) where she worked on Form I-130 Visa Petition Appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Her time with the federal government was invaluable as she gained critical insight into how the system works from the inside.

Becca attended Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude in 2020. While in law school, Becca served as the Executive Notes Editor of the Drexel Law Review and published her note: Protecting the Least Among Us: Using the Flores Agreement as a Model for an Alternative to Detention for the Mentally Ill in ICE Custody. She founded the Immigration Law Society and created and organized the Border Rights Project, through which she raised funds to send law students to the United States/Mexico border to provide pro bono legal services for migrants seeking entry. She won the Faculty Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Student for her work on the Border Rights Project. She also worked as a student attorney in the Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic where she won an LPR Cancellation of Removal case at the Philadelphia Immigration Court and filed appeals before the Third and Fifth Circuits and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She also worked at three boutique immigration firms in Philadelphia--as a secretary, paralegal, then law clerk--and as a clerk at the York Immigration Court through the Department of Justice Summer Legal Intern Program.

Rebecca is the granddaughter of Italian immigrants and the great-granddaughter of Polish immigrants who all came to the United States seeking brighter futures. She works tirelessly so her clients can have the same opportunities that her ancestors enjoyed.