Aviva is an Associate in Fragomen's New York office. She represents individual and corporate clients on 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 as well as family-based permanent residence applications.
Prior to joining Fragomen, Aviva worked as an Associate at boutique immigration law firms in New York and Chicago. She represented individual clients as well as small and medium-sized organizations on a wide variety of employment-based and family-based immigration matters.
Aviva speaks English and Dutch.
Education
Santa Clara University School of Law | J.D., 2008
Princeton University | B.A., 2002
Awards
Granted the “Community Ambassador Award” by Year Up, 2016
Professional Accomplishments / Memberships
Bar Admissions: New York, California (Inactive)
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
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.