Melanie is a Senior Associate with the firm’s nonimmigrant and permanent residency practice groups, focusing on H-1Bs, E-1/E-2s, and PERM- and family-based green cards.

Melanie has been practicing business and family immigration since 2007 at boutique immigration law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Melanie possesses exceptional expertise in obtaining nonimmigrant and immigrant visas for individuals with unique qualifications across a diverse range of fields, including technology consulting, marketing, graphics design, accounting, investment, solar, energy, biotech, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, virtual reality, robotics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, fiber optics, telecommunications, athletics, entertainment, business, and management.

Melanie advises multinational executives and entrepreneurs to obtain E-2 Treaty Investor and E-1 Treaty Trader visas, O-1/EB-1 Extraordinary Ability and Outstanding Researcher visas and Permanent Residence, J-1 foreign exchange visas, and P visas for entertainers. Her extensive experience enables her to identify innovative solutions and strategies to meet the needs of startups and multinational organizations through a broad range of business nonimmigrant visa petitions and applications, such as H-1B, TN, E-3, and H-1B1 visas for highly skilled professionals, B-1 visitor visas, and L-1 intracompany transferee visas.

Additionally, Melanie utilizes her attention to detail and a compassionate approach when providing guidance and assistance for family-based immigration, naturalization, and related applications.

Honors & Awards:

• Judicial Extern for the Honorable Julie Tang of the San Francisco Superior Court
• Volunteer, Family Law Self-Help Center at the San Francisco Superior Court

• State Bar of California
• American Immigration Lawyers Association

• B.A., University of California, Davis
• J.D., Golden Gate University School of Law