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Gabriella is an Associate at Fragomen’s San Francisco office and has been practicing immigration law within prestigious universities, a renowned national laboratory and a full-service immigration firm she established prior to joining Fragomen. She focuses on visas and green cards for highly skilled professionals, higher education institutions and for-profit and corporate entities. Gabriella is skilled at filing Conrad 30 (also known as State 30) waivers for foreign physicians, J-1 waivers based on exceptional hardship and Interested Government Agency (IGA) waivers.

Gabriella held various faculty positions, including Assistant Director, Faculty and Staff Immigration Services at University of Michigan and Assistant Director, International Employment Services at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Gabriella has provided pro bono assistance on R-1 visas for religious clergy.

Gabriella speaks English and Hungarian.

Education

  • Western Michigan Thomas M. Cooley Law School, J.D., 2005
  • Michigan State University James Madison College, B.A., 2002

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Admissions

Bar Admissions: Michigan, Illinois (inactive)

Court Admissions: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law

Experience

Successfully prepared and filed an exceptional hardship J-1 waiver for a foreign physician whose U.S. citizen wife suffered from debilitating anxiety and stress.

Received approval for a Nunc Pro Tunc H-1B extension for a foreign scientist out of status for 18 months.

Created an outbound immigration program for a major organization, allowing U.S. researchers to work abroad in Europe.

Publications and lectures

Author, “Take It to the Limit: Advanced H-1B Issues for Academics and Researchers.” Immigration Options for Academics and Researchers, 2012.

Presenter, “I-9 Enforcement: What Does Sonny Bono Have to Do with Immigration Law?” Texas Higher Education Human Resources Association (THEHRA) Winter Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 23 January 2012.

Presenter, “Give Me Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Be Free, or How About All Those NIVs.” 6th Annual Texas Tech Law School Faculty Update for Legal Services Attorneys, Public Interest Practitioners, and Pro Bono Attorneys, 2 December 2011.

Presenter, “An Immigration Check Up: Pre-and Post-Residency Planning.” Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, May 2011.

Speaker, “I-9 Enforcement: What Does Sonny Bono Have to Do with Immigration Law?” CUPA-HR Rio Grande Chapter, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 2010.

Presenter, “Medical Immigration Primer.” Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, August 2010.

Presenter, “Navigating Through the Immigration Maze.” Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Odessa, Texas, February 2010.

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