Eliud Magdiel Zavala

Eliud Zavala is the founder and managing member of the Zavala Law Firm, PLLC - an immigration law firm based in Houston. As an immigrant himself, Mr. Zavala knows the difficulties of going through the complexities of the U.S. immigration system. As an experienced immigration attorney, Mr. Zavala  provides the most attentive, caring, and efficient representation to help his clients navigate the immigration system with ease and success.

Mr. Zavala is a former associate immigration attorney of FosterQuan, LLP later Foster, LLP - the nation's largest minority-owned and preeminent global immigration law firm. He has assisted in the preparation and filing of cases before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals, Administrative Appeals Office, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and U.S. consulates throughout the world. Mr. Zavala also specializes in Family Immigration such as family petitions, permanent residence, K-1 fiance(e) visas, K-3 spouse visas, and consular process; and permanent residence through employment for outstanding researchers and professors, for people with extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, education, business, or athletics, for multinational managers or executives, for those seeking a national interest waiver, for skilled workers, professionals; and for religious workers. Mr. Zavala has also represented clients in the preparation and filing of immigrant investor petitions pertaining to EB-5 investments. Mr. Zavala also represents clients seeking nonimmigrant visas such as TN – Mexican and Canadian professionals; E1 and E2 – Treaty Visas; L visas – Intracompany managers, executives, or specialized knowledge; H-1B – Specialty Occupation visas; R-1 – Religious visas..

Mr. Zavala graduated from the University of Houston-Downtown with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with concentration in accounting. He is a graduate of South Texas College of Law where he participated in the law school's Immigration/Human Trafficking clinic representing underprivileged individuals and victims of human trafficking. Mr. Zavala is a member of the State Bar of Texas, American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association.