Criminal Law

• Misdemeanors
  Have not been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor, three or more other misdemeanors, and do not otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety.

Employment Law

• Employment Litigation
  The Immigration Law Office of Isabel Machado has been practicing immigration law for over 15 years with a focus on complex removal and family immigration cases. Our office provides experienced and professional immigration law services for clients in the United States and abroad. Our attorneys have been highly successful in resolving family and employment issues for individuals, families, employers, and business professionals.

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization
• Family Immigration
  U.S. citizens can petition their foreign-born spouses as immediate relatives, which means the spouse will have a visa (green card) number made immediately available to her/him. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) can also petition their spouses, but there is no visa number immediately available. Rather, petition falls into the second of several family immigration preference categories, which means the spouse must wait to be able to immigrate. There is a limit on the number of visas given each year in each category. However, unlike immediate relatives, spouses of LPRs are also eligible to immigrate certain children as derivative beneficiaries of of their spousal petition.
• Employment Immigration
  Like her clients, Isabel Machado is herself an immigrant. Her first language is Portuguese. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 6 as a derivative beneficiary after her U.S. citizen aunt (also Isabel) submitted a family-based petition on behalf of her brother, Ms. Machado’s father. A legal permanent resident throughout her childhood, Ms. Machado filed her application to become a naturalized U.S. citizen on her 18th birthday, the first day she became eligible to do so. She acted as interpreter for her parents throughout her childhood and even accompanied her mother to her English and citizenship classes. Later, after graduating college and spending two years in her home country, she immigrated her husband, who she had met while living abroad. In other words, Ms. Machado was exposed to the immigration process and has had first-hand experience since long before she became an immigration lawyer. Ms. Machado concentrates her practice in the areas of family- and employment-based immigration, including inadmissibility waivers and deportation defense. She has a vast family immigration practice and possesses considerable experience in preparing and defending employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions and permanent resident applications through labor certification. She has also handled many citizenship matters, including automatic acquisition and derivation for children born outside the United States.
• Green Cards
• Business Immigration
• Family Visas
• Work Visas
  Unlike other law firms that include immigration as just one of many areas of practice, the Immigration Law Office of Isabel Machado focuses exclusively on U.S. immigration law. We assist clients from all over the world to obtain a variety of temporary work visas, such as H-1B (skilled workers), L-1 (intracompany transferees), E-1/2 (treaty traders/investors), and TN (skilled workers from Mexico & Canada). We also work with employers and employees seeking permanent resident status (green card) through employment labor certification (PERM).
• Investor Visas
• Removal Defense
  Attorney Machado is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), practices exclusively in the area of immigration law with a focus on family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, and complex deportation and removal defense.