About
Lakshmi Nayar was born in 1975 in Kerala, India. At the age of 6, her family migrated to Perth, Western Australia, in which she resided till moving to Dallas in 1998. Lakshmi graduated from Murdoch University, Western Australia in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Politics and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) with Honors. In 1999, Lakshmi earned her Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lakshmi’s interest in U.S. immigration regulation originated from her own reviews as an immigrant to the US. After reading U.S. immigration regulation on the University of Michigan, she started out her profession inside the immigration subject in 2000 with the aid of volunteering at local non-earnings businesses that offer immigration assistance to low income immigrants. In 2001, she joined a small immigration corporation in Dallas and helped to develop it into one in all the most important complete-carrier immigration regulation workplaces inside the kingdom of Texas. Prior to starting her very own immigration regulation practice, Lakshmi turned into the managing legal professional of this firm.
During the route of her 10+-yr career in immigration regulation, Lakshmi has successfully dealt with a big range of U.S. immigration and nationality subjects. She has big revel in with deportation protection (such as cancellation of removal, 212(c) and 212(h) waivers for crimes, adjustment, de novo TPS claims, and bond hearings), circle of relatives-primarily based immigration (along with adjustment of fame and consular processing), waivers (for fraud, crimes, fitness-associated bars and prior deportations), citizenship and naturalization, nonimmigrant visas, asylum, NACARA, and humanitarian remedy (which includes temporary included repute and parole). She also has a special interest in supporting immigrant survivors of home violence and different crimes reap prison status inside the United States.
Lakshmi is admitted to exercise in New York and the Northern District Court of Texas. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Project. She is fluent in Malayalam.
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Languages
- Malayalam: Spoken
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Nayar & McIntyre, LLP
2009 - Managing Lawyer
Reina & Bates
2001
Educations
Graduation year: 1998
Graduation year: 1993
Graduation year: 1993
