Experience

Mona Shah & Associates Global
• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Attorney

  • Apr 2023 - Present


Malik & Popiel, P.C., A Law Firm Specializing In Immigration and Corporate Law

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Attorney

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2023

  •Specialize in complex corporate employment-based petitions including: H-1B, H-3, P-3, L-1A/B, E-2, EB-5, EB-1/AOS, P-3: - H-1B experience in leading matters from inception to completion including certified LCAs, drafting of requisite support letters and exhibits, dependent family H-4 and work authorization applications. - L-1A/B * Ensure applicant’s meet all regulatory requirement of an L-1A manager or executive. * Guide newly opened client offices - E-2 and EB-5 * Serve clients from foreign treaty countries to invest in or start new businesses in the U.S. •Led expansion of the L-1, E-2, H-3 and EB-5 services offered at firmwide, growing services from a minimal number of cases to the highest grossing service area of the firm. Show less



U.S. Department of Homeland Security

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• VSC - Intern for the Office of Chief Counsel with USCIS

  • Jan 2016 - Apr 2016

  - Drafted OCC briefs for the Board of Immigration Appeals, Adam Walsh Act legal sufficiency memoranda with legal opinions on the officer's draft denial of an application, and case summaries for Federal Court decisions used by the OCC staff - Successfully worked under the Deputy Chief Counsel in all matters relating to humanitarian, family, employment, naturalization and citizenship, and adoption based applications and petitions - Drafted OCC briefs for the Board of Immigration Appeals, Adam Walsh Act legal sufficiency memoranda with legal opinions on the officer's draft denial of an application, and case summaries for Federal Court decisions used by the OCC staff - Successfully worked under the Deputy Chief Counsel in all matters relating to humanitarian, family, employment, naturalization and citizenship, and adoption based applications and petitions



Amnesty International USA

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Legal Research Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  - Monitoring and updating case documents and legal proceedings on a specific Guantanamo case's under AI USA’s Security with Human Rights - Drafting a wide range of memos for AI USA's Police Brutality Report and other areas of legal research: *McCain-Feinstein Amendment (FY 2016 NDAA Amendment) outlining details on what the amendment addresses, its limitations, force, and impact specifically in correlation with torture in the United States and its effects if any in comparison to the Reparations Ordinance passed by the Chicago City Council, the Torture Act 18 U.S.C. § 2340-2340A and the failed Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act of 2012. Show less


South Royalton Legal Clinic
• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Student-Clinician

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014


HAWC Healing Abuse Working for Change

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legal Advocate

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  -Providing in-court support and information -Direct service advocacy specifically with 209A restraining orders and 258E harassment order -Providing in-court support and information -Direct service advocacy specifically with 209A restraining orders and 258E harassment order



Peace Corps

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Secondary school Language Arts Teacher

  • 2010 - 2012

  - Created cross-cultural awareness classes and discussions between Sierra Leoneans and the U.S. - Completed a U.S. Embassy grant to refurbish schools Home Economics Department. - District representative of Volunteer Action Committee. - Successfully completed a grant funding and overseeing of two week art camp for 11-14 year old girls focusing on healthy living, sanitation and art culminating in a mural by the girls of the skills they had learned at camp. - Created cross-cultural awareness classes and discussions between Sierra Leoneans and the U.S. - Completed a U.S. Embassy grant to refurbish schools Home Economics Department. - District representative of Volunteer Action Committee. - Successfully completed a grant funding and overseeing of two week art camp for 11-14 year old girls focusing on healthy living, sanitation and art culminating in a mural by the girls of the skills they had learned at camp.