Associate
David F. Mancia Orellana
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Languages
- English
- Spanish
Contact information
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
800 NW 62nd Avenue, Suite #590
Miami FL 33126
United States
David is an Associate at Fragomen’s Miami office, where he represents corporate clients and individuals on immigrant and nonimmigrant visa matters, such as L-1A, L-1B, EB-1A, EB-1C, O-1A visas and family-based petitions.
After law school, David worked for a national law firm where he assisted a diverse range of corporate clients in various sectors, including technology, engineering, medicine and poultry, with immigrant petitions and nonimmigrant visas. He then returned to his hometown in Arkansas to strategically manage corporate immigration programs for small to international construction and agricultural operations, focusing on H-2A, H-2B and TN nonimmigrant visas, as well as EB-3 (unskilled) immigrant visas. David also counseled corporate clients on the effects of corporate reorganization; the process of recruiting, hiring and employing foreign nationals; and immigration compliance. He has experience successfully responding to USCIS Requests for Evidence and IRS compliance issues related to matters concerning foreign national workers.
David served as a Clinic Fellow at University of Maimi School of Law’s Immigration Clinic. He has provided pro bono work to TPS beneficiaries (TPS renewals) and unaccompanied minors (SIJS) from El Salvador.
David speaks English and Spanish.
Education
- University of Miami School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2022
- Florida State University, B.S., cum laude, 2019
More from David
Admissions
Bar Admissions: Arkansas
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
Awards
CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Immigration Clinical Fellow, Fall 2021
Professional accomplishments
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Member, Arkansas Bar Association
Director, Northwest Arkansas League of United Latin American Citizens Council, Education Committee
Member, Salvadoreños Unidos Para Arkansas
Experience
Led a team of clinic student-attorneys in a complex Asylum, Withholding of Removal and Convention Against Torture matter as well as a Prosecutorial Discretion request for a mentally ill Mexican mother held in upsetting jail conditions.
Assisted a Libyan political asylum seeker at his USCIS asylum interview who was granted political asylum.
Publications and lectures
Speaker, “Pida trabajadores de otros países para laborar aquí.” Univision Arkansas, 26 September 2023.
Featured, “10 to Watch: Students and Recent Graduates to Keep an Eye On.” University of Miami School of Law Magazine, 20 February 2023.
Quoted, “Immigration Clinic Students Win Release of Mother Held in Shocking Jail Conditions.” University of Miami School of Law News, 30 March 2022.
