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Rocio L. Palacios
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Rocio is an Associate at Fragomen’s San Francisco office, where she focuses her practice on employment-based nonimmigrant visas, including drafting comprehensive responses to Requests for Evidence. She also has experience handling Adjustment of Status applications.
Prior to joining Fragomen, Rocio served as a Law Clerk at a San Francisco-based corporate immigration firm, where she assisted clients with H-1B petitions, Requests for Evidence, E petitions, national interest waivers, provisional waivers and U visas.
Rocio’s pro bono work includes participation in the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights’ Asylum Program and the Pathways to Citizenship Initiative’s Naturalization Clinic.
Rocio speaks English and Spanish.
Education
- Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D., 2015
- Academy of Art University, BFA, 2005
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Bar Admissions: District of Columbia
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
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555 Montgomery St, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94111
United States
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555 Montgomery St, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94111
United States
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