Law Office of Emily Love, P.C.

The Law Office of Emily Love, P.C. helps individuals and employers with United States Immigration and Nationality Law. As a full-service Immigration law firm, we handle all types of cases involving employer sponsorship, family sponsorship, naturalization, deportation defense, and political asylum. The Law Office of Emily Love, P.C. represents and advocates on behalf of immigrants from all over the world and those who wish to sponsor them, and all communications with the office are strictly confidential.

Petitions

Family-Based Petitions:
We assist U.S. Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents who wish to file petitions to help their family members immigrate to this country. In many cases where the sponsored family member is already in the U.S., we prepare the applications which allow the family member to remain in the country and work legally while they await their permanent residence ("green card"). We then prepare the applicant and sponsor for their interview at the Immigration & Naturalization Service and accompany them to represent them and resolve any legal issues which may arise there.

If the family member is outside the U.S., we prepare all the paperwork so they can obtain their immigrant visa at the U.S. Consulate. In cases where an immigrant visa may not be immediately available, we file the visa petition to establish a "priority date," getting the relative a place in line to eventually immigrate and become a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident.

Employment-Based Petitions:
We represent employers who wish to sponsor non-U.S. workers to work for them, as temporary workers on H-1B, L-1 and TN visas or as Lawful Permanent Residents. We also assist foreign professionals and other workers seeking these non-immigrant visas or Lawful Permanent Residence ("Green Cards") through Labor Certification, as Multinational Executives or Managers, Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researchers and Professors, or as Aliens of Exceptional Ability with National Interest Waivers.

Naturalization

In some cases, a person born outside the United States may already be a United States citizen because of a parent's birth or naturalization in the U.S. We help people determine their citizenship by considering all the relevant factors. If someone appears to be a U.S. citizen, we help them prove it and apply for the appropriate documents which will allow them to benefit from their United States Citizenship.

If an applicant has been a Lawful Permanent Resident long enough to qualify for U.S. Citizenship and is otherwise eligible, we prepare and file the Naturalization application and accompany the applicant to their interview at the Immigration & Naturalization Service.

In cases where the person is ineligible for citizenship or where an application for citizenship might jeopardize their Lawful Permanent Residence, we advise them of this instead of filing an application.

Deportation

Removal/Deportation Defense

Emily Love represents people from throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, and Northern Indiana before the Immigration Court in Chicago, Illinois. She has defended people facing deportation or removal from the U.S. since she began practicing immigration law in 1993, both by contesting their deportability or presenting their defense from removal to the Immigration Court.

Emily Love has successfully defended Respondents facing deportation to countries throughout the world. She has won numerous cases in Immigration Court and at the Board of Immigration Appeals by successfully proving that someone was not deportable, or by successfully presenting an application for relief from deportation or removal.

Examples of some of the types of cases she has won include the following: Adjustment of Status based on family or employer sponsorship; Political Asylum; Cancellation of Removal; and Suspension of Deportation. She has successfully obtained waivers for applicants previously barred from immigration or subject to removal based on entry without inspection; visa overstays; criminal convictions; and misrepresentation/fraud.

Asylum

Emily Love has successfully represented people fleeing persecution in their home countries and seeking asylum in the United States. She has represented asylum-seekers from around the world, including Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, both before the Immigration & Naturalization Service and before the Immigration Court.

Among her other asylum cases, Ms. Love has successfully represented women from Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe seeking asylum after fleeiong from gender-based persecution in their home countries. In 1994, the Harvard Women's Law Journal published an article by Ms. Love entitled -"Equality in Political Asylum Law: For a Legislative Recognition of Gender-Based Persecution."