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Attorney Ellen Lee has worked for the Law offices of Carl Shusterman for over 15 years and has been practicing immigration law since 1975. She specializes in family based and marriage cases as well as naturalization matters. Over the years, Ms. Lee has successfully helped a vast amount of people obtain marriage visas, fiancée visas and assisted many permanent residents in becoming U.S citizens.
Ms. Lee has also served on the national Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), was the Chairperson of AILA, Southern California Chapter, and is active in various AILA activities.
Her hard work and commitment in immigration law, have helped her earn the highest rating (“AV”) in legal ability and ethics from the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory. She has also organized innovative seminars including a three-day conference in which various U.S. Consuls from posts in Asia, Canada and Mexico made presentations and answered questions. In addition she has also organized seminars on waivers of excludability and deportability and others which featured the U.S. Consul from Guangzhou, China and the Consul representing the People’s Republic of China.
Ms. Lee has also taken the role of Editor-in-Chief of a major AILA publication and has spoken at various AILA Conferences on the national, state and local levels. Not to mention that she is a member of the national Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Law Foundation.
She testified before the President’s Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy; served on the Executive Committee of the Immigration Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; participates in numerous liaison committees with the Los Angeles District Office of USCIS; and is a volunteer legal advisor to the Chinatown Service Center.
Year after year, she has been voted as a Super Lawyer in Southern California by her colleagues in the bar.
Her fluency in various Chinese dialects has helped establish closer relationships with some of our clients, therefore making Mrs. Lee a wonderful asset to our office.
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Acquired: 1975
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600 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1550, Los Angeles, CA, 90017
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Posted by Farhan | March 13, 2018 | Hired Attorney
Ms.Lee is the best lawyer one could have. She was very patient, calm and meticulous with our citizenship case. She outlined the naturalization process and it happened exactly the way she drescribed . My wife and I got our citizenship in the exact time frame presented to us. She will fight for your ca...
Posted by Samuel | March 4, 2018 | Hired Attorney
Immigration Attorney Ellen Ma Lee was assigned to my case; an F4 category which she handled flawlessly and in the most professional manner. The process had some roadblocks due to my sponsor's change of status but Lee was always knowledgable and her advice and professional support was always correct ...
Posted by Stephen | February 22, 2018 | Hired Attorney
I am a commercial litigation attorney with 40 years of practice experience, so I thought I could handle my wife's immigration case myself. Wrong! I really screwed it up and she was denied a green card! OMG! What to do? Fortunately, somebody referred me to Ellen. We retained her and she straightened e...
Posted by WJC | January 18, 2018 | Hired Attorney
Attorney Ellen and paralegal Ana Cruz are awesome. Both were very dedicated and responsive throughout the greencard process. Highly recommended them.
Posted by Sally Alsouz | January 7, 2018 | Hired Attorney
My husband and I are very thankful to attorney Ellen and paralegal Ana Cruz for their diligence and hard work on our immigration case. They both worked on our case for two years until my husband got the green card. Attorney Ellen is very knowledgeable and professional, yet warm and caring. Both were ...
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Immigration lawyer
Immigration lawyer
2013
Chambers USA Guide, Chambers & Partners
2012
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2011
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2009
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2006
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Super lawyer,
1999 - Present
Attorney at Law, Law Offices Of Carl Shusterman
1977 - 1981
Staff Attorney, Executive Director, One Stop Immigration Center
1974 - 1977
Staff Attorney, Long Beach Legal Aid
Member
Chairperson
Board of Governors
Board of Trustees
Executive Committee, Immigration Section
1974
JD - Juris Doctor
Chinese, Min Nan
Chinese, Hakka
Chinese, Wu
Chinese, Jinyu
Chinese, Xiang
Chinese, Gan