Associate
Michelle Yang
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Languages
- English
- Mandarin Chinese
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Michelle is an Associate at Fragomen’s New York office, where she primarily assists multinational corporate clients with a wide range of U.S. immigration matters, including employment-based petitions for nonimmigrant visas, family-based petitions and applications for permanent residence. Her clients range from global Fortune 500 companies to boutique clients in the financial services, wealth management services, fashion, fragrances, entertainment, manufacturing and nonprofit sectors.
Michelle has completed more than 600 hours of pro bono service through the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her service focused on providing asylum law assistance and she supported clients fighting removal from the United States and/or seeking to regularize their legal status through family ties, employment, asylum or pursuant to specific federal categories such as Violence Against Women Act, Special Immigration Juveniles and Temporary Protected Status. As part of her experience at the clinic, Michelle also prepared documentary and testimonial evidence, and drafted and argued motions and briefs on substantive, evidentiary and procedural issues in proceedings before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.
Michelle speaks English and Mandarin.
Education
- Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, J.D., 2023
- Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 2017
Bar Admissions
- New York, 2024
- New Jersey, 2024
More from Michelle
Admissions
Bar Admissions: New Jersey, New York
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
Awards
White Plains Bar Association Ethics and Professionalism Award, May 2023
Professional accomplishments
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Member, Asian American Bar Association of New York
Member, New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)
Member, NYSBA Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee
Publications and lectures
Co-Author, “Bridging Fields: How Policy Changes Open Doors to Hire International Workers in STEM Fields and Cultivate the Future of Agriculture.” AgCareers.com, 28 June 2024.
