Melissa Oklan

Melissa Oklan is an Associate Attorney at the Ranchod Law Group. Ms. Oklan joined Ranchod Law in the Fall of 2012, having previously practiced immigration law at a prominent firm in Miami, Florida, as both an Associate and then later as a Supervising Attorney. During her time in Florida, Ms. Oklan represented clients before USCIS, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in cases involving asylum, withholding of removal, the Convention Against Torture, cancellation of removal, waivers of the grounds of inadmissibility, and applications for advance permission to return to unrelinquished domicile, among other areas of immigration law.

Ms. Oklan also has experience in preparing a variety of business immigration visas and green cards including but not limited to H-1B Specialty Occupations, L-1A Intracompany Transferee for Executives and Managers, and O-1 Individuals with Extraordinary Ability / Achievement. She has also successfully prepared a variety of immigrant petitions including employment based preferences 1 through 5 with and without National Interest Waivers.

Currently, Ms. Oklan focuses her work on cases requiring persuasive legal briefs like provisional unlawful presence waivers, waivers of inadmissibility, and j waivers based on hardship and persecution.

Ms. Oklan is admitted to the Florida Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States District Courtfor the Southern District of Florida.