Wolf Kaufmann

Our law firm provides professional and yet personal service to our clients in all areas of United States Immigration and Nationality Law and related Federal and California Criminal Law. We are focused on providing full legal service to establish the business or family immigrant in her or his new home country by taking care of all steps towards a successful settlement: all visa and work authorization matters. To our business clients we provide efficient and professional service to bring your foreign employees to this country. We prepare and file all visa petitions and applications, labor certifications, labor conditions applications and requests for work authorizations.For those in the United States who encounter problems with the USCIS or other authorities, we provide representation in deportation (removal) and other proceedings, in immigration court and before the BIA or in Federal Court.We also represent immigrants as well as citizens in California criminal trial courts and during the postconviction relief stage (appeal, motion to vacate, habeas corpus). In criminal defense we always have the special situation of an immigrant in mind.Our typical caseload contains topics such as: Family based immigration, Business immigration, Work visa, Adjustment of Status, Investor visa, immigration court proceedings, deportation prevention, criminal defense in California and Federal courts, postconviction relief (appeal, habeas corpus etc.) Fluent in GermanWe also maintain an office in Arizona, where we exclusively handle matters of Federal Immigration Law. As the former Honorary Consul of Germany we also specialize in assisting clients with permissions to obtain dual citizenship (Beibehaltungsgenehmigung)