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Aviva helps clients hire and retain talented employees, enabling them to grow and meet their business goals. She represents corporate and private clients in all aspects of U.S. immigration, including nonimmigrant visas, permanent residence and citizenship. She provides counsel on all major employment-based temporary and permanent visa categories. Aviva also works with individuals and families on a variety of matters, including family-based green card applications, naturalization, investor visas, and more.
As Aviva counsels corporate clients across different industries, she is skilled at developing customized processes to meet their immigration needs. Specifically, she represents the immigration interests of clients in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, non-profit, financial services and art and design sectors.
Working with corporate clients enables Aviva to tackle a variety of challenges, sometimes due to extenuating circumstances. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her clients depended on Aviva’s guidance to continue to deploy the right talent to the right destination as quickly as possible.
Education
- Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D., 2008
- Princeton University, B.A., 2002
More from Aviva
Admissions
Bar Admissions: New York, California (Inactive)
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
Awards
Named to Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, 2026
Granted the “Community Ambassador Award” by Year Up, 2016
Professional accomplishments
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Experience
Assisted professionals in a wide variety of industries to obtain permanent residence through the labor certification process.
Represented investors of small businesses in obtaining nonimmigrant investor visas.
Assisted employees of multinational companies to obtain nonimmigrant and immigrant visas as intracompany transferees.
Represented hotels and resorts in obtaining work visas based on temporary need.
Publications and lectures
Speaker, “Immigration Info Session for Advanced Degree Holders in STEM.” The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, April 2018.
Speaker, “Immigration Info Session.” Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2017.
Contributor, “New Security Requirements for Foreign Business and Tourism Travelers.” New York Law Journal, Vol. 255, No. 13 (Jan. 2016): n. pag. Print and web.
Aviva’s insights
August 21, 2025 | Awards
June 6, 2024 | Conference
October 23, 2023 | Webinar
