Sara Judith Bartos

Sara Judith Bartos

5.0
Rating: 7.9

Licensed for 24 years

Immigration Lawyer at Chicago, IL
Practice Areas: Immigration

300 W. Adams Street, Suite 500, Chicago, IL

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Immigration 100%

Specializing in all areas of immigration law including family-based immigration, removal defense, and appellate advocacy.

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Licenses

Licensed in Illinois for 24 years

State: Illinois

Acquired: 2001

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Immigration Attorneys, LLP

300 W. Adams Street, Suite 500, Chicago, IL, 60606

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Sara Judith Bartos's Reviews

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85 Client Reviews

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Showing 1 - 5 of 5 reviews | Asylum

Posted by anonymous | February 17, 2026 | Hired Attorney | Asylum

Best immigration attorney

She pays meticulous attention to detail and the updating. Sara Bartos has been an extremely successful experience, provide guidance and support to her clints, answering all their questions, her expertise has provided us with comprehensive guidance through the asylum process.

Posted by anonymous | July 11, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Asylum

Asylum and Marriage visa

We hired Ms. Bartos for our asylum and Marriage visa cases. We would 10/ 10 recommend her to our family and friends just like how she was recommend to us. She was extremely diligent, informative and responsive in all of her work.

Posted by anonymous | August 19, 2022 | Hired Attorney | Asylum

Immigration cases Expert and detailed oriented Lawyer

My case is Asylum, previous to Sara I hired another attorney that made a lot of mistakes in the application, then I was so lucky to meet Sara so she saved the case and made all possible revisions to rectify the application properly. Furthermore, Sara is taking care of all the small & tiny details tha...t others may not see them important, and she build a solid case based on these tiny evidences to get it finally granted, that is an actual fact happened in my case. Absolutely recommend for any immigration type of cases. Also, Sara at the personal level is so kind person and a perfect listener to all the story details. So lucky to meet Sara to complete my case successfully and professionally.

Posted by David Daray | February 16, 2022 | Hired Attorney | Asylum

The Best Lawyer Ever!!

To say that Sara J. Bartos is one of the top and best immigration attorneys would be a HUGE understatement. She is the best of the best, and I can easily say that because I applied for asylum in 2016 with a different attorney from a different firm and all that attorney did for me and my family wa...s taking our money, submitting our application and all we did was wait and never heard from him. After years of frustration, we were referred to Sara J. Bartos and decided to switch attorneys. It was easily the best decision I EVER made for me and my family. What a difference, from day one after engaging Sara she got straight to work! She first reviewed our application previously submitted on our behalf by another attorney and found mistakes that would have been detrimental to our case. She immediately addressed all errors and spent so much time discussing our case with us until she fully understood every aspect. Her ability to listen and take in an enormous amount of information is astonishing, but more than that, her ability to tell our story clearly and fully in writing sparing no details is even more impressive. The process with Sara is, for the lack of a better word, brutal, and I mean that in a good way, as she does not believe in shortcuts and does not leave any stone unearthed until she builds a very strong application with all the supporting documents for the best possible outcome. With that said, Sara spent a lot of time with us, she always set the right expectations, and she would call, text, and e-mail us as many times as it took until she had all the facts she needed and felt 100% satisfied that she clearly captured all necessary and quite frankly crucial information to make our case complete. Her knowledge, experience and expertise in this field combined with her attention to detail is unheard of and her level of patience is clearly what makes her the best in the business. Sara did for us 1,000 times more in one (1) year than the attorney we started with did for us in five (5) years. Inside of this one (1) year after engaging Sara, things felt like they were finally starting to move along. Again, she spent so much time with us to make our application and file filled with all the needed information and at the same time she was doing all she could to get us scheduled for our interview, and sure enough, that day came and we were finally scheduled for our interview which went very well especially with the help of Sara intervening where needed and at the conclusion of the interview she gave a statement about me and my family to the interviewing officer to ensure everything was reiterated verbally by her and noted in our files. Sara, my family and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we feel Blessed and fortunate that we were referred to you! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Posted by Tim | March 24, 2020 | Hired Attorney | Asylum

Truong

I highly recommend Stephen Berman and Sara Bartos, and their firm, Immigration Attorneys, LLP, for help with immigration. I came to Stephen when my relative had recently been granted asylum but had no documentation of his status from the court. Both Stephen and Sara came with me in person to... USCIS to help get the documents we needed, and then helped get my relative his green card. I believe Stephen and Sara are extremely knowledgeable, experienced, caring, and creative. I recommend them for help with immigration.

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Sara Judith Bartos's Lawyer Endorsements

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Gregory Petit

Immigration lawyer | Apr 02

Relationship: Fellow lawyer in community

"Attorney Bartos is a tireless advocate for the rights of her clients. I thoroughly endorse this lawyer. I have been impressed with her knowledge, skill and expertise. A+"

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Sharon Hwang

Immigration lawyer | Jul 13

Relationship: Co-worker

"I worked with Sara for many years and found her to be brilliant, diligent, and hard working. She gives 110% to each and every client. She is also very approachable and happy to answer questions in an understandable, thoughtful manner. I highly recommend her!"

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Brian Sather

Immigration lawyer | May 08

Relationship: Co-worker

"Sara Bartos is a top-notch immigration attorney. She is totally devoted to her clients, who benefit every day from her impressive intellect and knowledge of immigration law and procedure. She leaves no stone unturned in her zealous pursuit and execution of strategies and tactics directed at solving her clients’ legal problems and, whenever necessary, protecting her clients from the government. As much as I like Sara, I admire her even more."

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Kathryn Reeves

Immigration lawyer | Apr 03

Relationship: Supervised lawyer

"Sara Bartos is an excellent attorney. In addition to her expertise in the area of immigration law that she brings to each and every case, she also brings a high level of compassion. She is responsive and available and she confronts case challenges head on. I endorse Sara Bartos for all work in the area of Immigration & Nationality Law."

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Heather Bjella

Immigration lawyer | Dec 02

Relationship: Fellow lawyer in community

"I endorse this lawyer. Sara is incredibly smart, diligent, and a superb advocate for her clients."

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Kristine Michel

Immigration lawyer | Dec 01

Relationship: Co-worker

"Sara is a very passionate and knowledgeable immigration attorney. She works diligently to assist her clients achieve success with their cases."

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Vanya Hession

Immigration lawyer | Nov 14

Relationship: Co-worker

"Sara is one of the hardest workers I know - she cares deeply for her clients and strives to achieve the best results for each and every one of them!"

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Experience

Rating:  7.9 (Very Good)

Work Experience

2011 - Present

Attorney, Immigration Attorneys, LLP

2001 - 2011

Attorney, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

1998 - 2001

Law Clerk, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

1987 - 1998

Engineer, Tellabs, Ltd.

Education

2001

John Marshall Law School

JD

1992

University of Illinois, Chicago

MA - Masters

1986

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

BS - Bachelor of Science

Languages

English

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