Associate
T +1 858 793 1600
F +1 858 793 1686
11238 El Camino Real
Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92130
United States of America

Bar Admissions

  • California
  • Bulgaria

Education

  • University of San Diego School of Law
    ,
    LL.M.
    ,
    2000
  • Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridski" School of Law
    ,
    J.D.
    ,
    1998

Spoken Languages

  • Bulgarian
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Teodora Purcell

 An immigration attorney for eight years, Teodora handled numerous employment and family based immigration cases, as well as removal defense, naturalization and other special immigrant cases. She is also experienced in administrative and federal immigration appeals and has successfully argued before the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court. Currently, Teodora specializes in various immigration matters for both corporate and individual clients. Teodora is certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, certified by the State Bar of California, Board f Legal Specialization.

Representative Experience

Assisted numerous managers and executives of smaller and larger international companies obtain immigrant visas based under the highly scrutinized “multinational manager/executive” classification.

Advised a large, global telecommunication company on the immigration consequences of complex corporate reorganization, particularly on the affect on its intra company transferee employees.

Successfully represented individuals in their requests for humanitarian parole or immigrant visa waivers based on extreme hardship to their U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident relatives.

Successfully represented individuals in complex naturalization and derivative citizenship cases.

Professional Accomplishments

Memberships

Member, American Immigration Lawyer Association

Member, San Diego AILA Chapter, USCIS and Consular Corps Committees

Member, San Diego County Bar Association

Member, Lawyers Club of San Diego

Previous Member, American Bar Association

Awards

Wiley W. Manuel Award for pro Bono Legal Services, State Bar of California

Pro Bono

Provided services as a Volunteer Attorney for Casa Cornelia Law Center in San Diego, California for the preparation of VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) petitions for immigrant victims of domestic violence, and represented pro bono asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors in Immigration Court hearings. Also provided mentorship to volunteer attorneys on asylum cases.