Our Areas of Practice and Expertise

Rebecca Kitson Law has focused our practice to help you with immigration. Our entire office works together to provide the best legal strategies and service to each client. We have decades of experience serving immigrants. Our practice is bi-lingual.

Our Areas of Practice and Expertise

CITIZENSHIP

  • Naturalization
  • Acquired & Derived Citizenship

Lawful Permanent Residency (green cards)

  • Family-Based Immigration and Petitions
    • Married to a United States Citizen
    • Married to a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR or green card holder)
    • Parents of United States Citizen children
    • Adult Married and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of United States Citizens
    • Adult Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders)
    • Minor children, stepchildren, and adopted children of Lawful Permanent Residents and United States Citizens
    • Siblings of United States Citizens
  • Fiancé / Fiancée Visas – K visas worldwide
  • Consular Processing Worldwide
  • Adjustment of Status before USCIS

Humanitarian Relief

  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
  • Special Immigrant Juvenile Petitions (SIJS)
  • Self-Petitions for spouses, children, and parents under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) for Victims of Domestic Violence, Battery and Extreme Cruelty
  • Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
  • Affirmative Asylum applications
  • Relief for Victims of Violent Crime – U visas
  • Relief for Victims of Human Trafficking – T visas

Immigrant Defense - Non-Detained

  • Representation in Removal Proceedings in Immigration Court*
    • Adjustment of Status in Proceedings
    • Cancellation of Removal for LPRs and Non-LPRs
    • Defensive Asylum, Withholding, and Relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT)
    • Contested Charges
    • Other Defenses to Removal (212(c) and 237(a)(1)(H) waivers)
  • Waivers of Inadmissibility
    • I-212 Waivers of Inadmissibility
    • I-601 Waivers of Inadmissibility
  • Immigration Consequences of Crime
    • Expert Advice to Criminal Law Practitioners
    • Individualized Representation for Immigrants Facing Consequences of Crime

*We currently only take a limited number of cases before the Immigration Court.

Immigration Appellate and Court Proceedings

  • Representation in the New Mexico State Court (limited Family Law matters)
  • Representation before the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO – DHS)
  • Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA – DOJ)
  • Representation before the Federal District Court
  • Representation before Federal Circuit Courts (5th Circuit Court of Appeals) *