Bryce Erick Downer

As a partner at Novo Legal Group, I serve clients across the United States, representing them before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Department of State. I work closely with labor unions to assist their members with immigration issues, with a particular focus on workers' rights at the intersection of employment and immigration law.

I served as co-counsel with Aaron Elinoff on the firm's cannabis-immigration litigation, including the Oswaldo Barrientos case that generated national coverage. My warning that USCIS citizenship interviews can become a "trap" for immigrants in the cannabis industry has been widely quoted in national media and has helped raise awareness of the risks facing green-card holders in legal cannabis states.

In addition to my legal practice, I provide legal analysis on local news and radio programs covering immigration policy and cannabis-immigration developments. At Novo Legal, my practice centers on representing immigrants and workers — particularly union members and clients caught between state-legal cannabis employment and federal immigration enforcement.