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Sofía Alvarez
Founding Attorney
Sofía started her career as a staff attorney at a Houston legal aid organisation, where she carried a docket of removal defense and humanitarian cases for clients who had nowhere else to go. She opened this firm in 2018 to do the same work with the time and resources those cases actually require.
She handles the firm's family-based petitions, naturalization matters, and complex waiver cases, and she supervises every file that comes through the door. Her practice is conducted in English and Spanish without an interpreter.
She speaks regularly at community know-your-rights sessions across Harris County, and she'll tell you plainly that the most valuable thing she does there is talk people out of paying notarios for work only a licensed attorney can legally do.
Credentials
- Admitted: State Bar of Texas, 2012
- J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2012
- B.A. in Political Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- Former staff attorney, Houston-area legal aid organisation, 2012–2018
- Languages: English, Spanish
- Focus
- Family petitions, naturalization, waivers, humanitarian relief
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Direct
- (713) 555-0172
Daniel Okonkwo
Associate Attorney
Daniel joined the firm in 2021 and carries most of its removal defense docket. He appears regularly before the Houston Immigration Court and has handled bond hearings, merits hearings, and appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
He came to immigration law from the other side of it — his own family went through the process, and he has said more than once that the paperwork was the easy part compared to not knowing what was happening for months at a time. That's the reason this firm sends status updates every thirty days whether or not there's news.
He also handles the firm's employment-based work, including H-1B and TN petitions for Houston's energy and medical employers.
Credentials
- Admitted: State Bar of Texas, 2019
- J.D., South Texas College of Law Houston, 2019
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2015
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- Volunteer counsel, Houston-area detention project
- Languages: English, Spanish, Igbo
- Focus
- Removal defense, bond hearings, BIA appeals, work visas
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Igbo
- Direct
- (713) 555-0172
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Thirty minutes, English or Spanish, no obligation. You'll speak with an attorney — not an intake coordinator reading from a script.