Experience

JEELANI LAW FIRM, PLC

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Attorney

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  My primary experience is in asylum, humanitarian parole, naturalization, family-based adjustment cases, including consular processing, K-1 Fiance(e) visa, U-visas, VAWA, FOIA requests with USCIS, EOIR, and CBP, EOIR cases, and federal litigation dealing with delayed adjudications as well as appellate matters before the U.S. Federal Courts, U.S. Immigration Courts, USCIS and the BIA. My primary experience is in asylum, humanitarian parole, naturalization, family-based adjustment cases, including consular processing, K-1 Fiance(e) visa, U-visas, VAWA, FOIA requests with USCIS, EOIR, and CBP, EOIR cases, and federal litigation dealing with delayed adjudications as well as appellate matters before the U.S. Federal Courts, U.S. Immigration Courts, USCIS and the BIA.



Cheng, Cho, & Yee, Immigration Lawyers

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Attorney

  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  My primary focus was on consular processing and family based applications. My primary focus was on consular processing and family based applications.



DePaul University College of Law Asylum Clinic

• Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Student Attorney

  • Aug 2019 - May 2020

  Year long asylum clinic though DePaul University College of Law, working on both affirmative and defense removal asylum cases. Year long asylum clinic though DePaul University College of Law, working on both affirmative and defense removal asylum cases.



DePaul University College of Law

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant to Professor John F. Decker

  • Jun 2019 - Apr 2020

  Researched and wrote summaries of Illinois judicial opinions focusing on substantive criminal issues for inclusion in the 2020 Annual Supplement to the Illinois Criminal Law (Lexis Law Publishers, 6th ed. 2018). Researched and wrote summaries of Illinois judicial opinions focusing on substantive criminal issues for inclusion in the 2020 Annual Supplement to the Illinois Criminal Law (Lexis Law Publishers, 6th ed. 2018).



Circuit Court of Cook County

• Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Judicial Extern to Hon. Ronald F. Bartkowicz

  • May 2019 - Aug 2019

  Researched substantive and procedural issues including requirement for MSJ, Motions to Convert Respondents in Discovery to Defendants, Interlocutory Orders, Forum Non Conveniens, researched and analyzed pending motions, wrote bench memoranda and drafted judicial orders. Researched substantive and procedural issues including requirement for MSJ, Motions to Convert Respondents in Discovery to Defendants, Interlocutory Orders, Forum Non Conveniens, researched and analyzed pending motions, wrote bench memoranda and drafted judicial orders.