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Areas of Experience
Immigration
Professional Summary
Michael Mandel practices exclusively in the area of business and family-based immigration law. He advises individuals and businesses in connection with a variety of immigration-related matters, including nonimmigrant (temporary) and immigrant visa petitions, labor certification applications, family-based petitions, and adjustment of status and citizenship applications. Mr. Mandel has also litigated asylum, removal and deportation cases. He writes and lectures on a variety of immigration-related topics.
As a member of the Advocacy Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s New York chapter and AILA’s national Family Immigration Law Committee, Michael works closely with immigrants, community-based organizations, non-profits, religious groups and others to lobby Congress for positive immigration reform and improve the day-to-day lives of immigrants. He is also a member of AILA NY’s Pro Bono Committee and a volunteer attorney with the New York City Immigrant Advocacy Initiative, which organizes monthly legal clinics for immigrants.
Prior to law school, Michael worked for two years with City Year, an AmeriCorps national service organization, in Chicago.
Education
J.D. (Law & Social Policy), Northwestern University School of Law, 2001
B.A. (English), University of Michigan, 1996
Admissions
New York
Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers Association, Member
American Immigration Lawyers Association, Member, Family
Immigration Law Committee (National)
American Immigration Lawyers Association, Member (and past Co-Chair), Advocacy Committee (New York)
American Immigration Lawyers Association, Member, Pro Bono Committee (New York) | 