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Nikki Mehrpoo Jacobson
E-mail: Nikki@GreenCard4You.com
Nikki Mehrpoo Jacobson is a founding partner of Jacobson & Han LLP. She is an experienced attorney and immigration rights advocate. Ms. Jacobson has been practicing law since 1997 and has successfully represented hundreds of clients before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS – formerly INS), the United States Federal Courts and the Superior Courts of California.
Ms. Jacobson has extensive experience in Immigration Law; including, deportation and removal proceedings before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has successfully represented clients in political asylum, withholding of deportation, cancellation of removal, and criminal and fraud waiver cases.
Additionally, she represents clients from all over the world before the USCIS, U.S. Embassies, and Consulates assisting them with consular processing, visas, adjustment of status, citizenship, naturalization hearings, various waivers, corporate immigration and employment matters, labor certifications, non-immigrant visas, and permanent residency options.
Ms. Jacobson is a member and very active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association (Southern California Chapter: Immigration Court-EOIR Liaison), the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Executive Member of the Immigration Law Section), Culver Marina Bar Association and several other legal associations.
She is an active lecturer on various immigration topics and legal ethics. Her most recent seminars were entitled Immigration: From No Status to Citizenship and The Bottom Line: Ethics, Hiring and Utilization for Paralegal Work under B&P Code 6450 (Panel discussion related to Business & Professions Code 6450-6456 and its impact on attorneys, paralegals and other legal professionals in California). She is also a distinguished Associate Professor of Law at West Los Angeles College. In addition, Ms. Jacobson continues her immigration legal education by attending numerous classes and seminars each year.
Ms. Jacobson obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science (cum laude ) from California State University, Northridge in 1994. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1997. She was admitted to the California State Bar in 1997. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms. Jacobson’s second language is Farsi.
E-mail: Nikki@GreenCard4You.com
Featured Speaking Engagements:
05/29/2008: Los Angeles County Bar & American Immigration Lawyers Association “The Ins & Outs of the New Immigration Court Practice Manual for Immigration Attorneys and Their Staff Members”
04/15/2008 Culver Marina Bar Association “Naturalization Issues”
12/06/2007: Beverly Hills Bar Association "Evidence Before DHS and DOJ/EOIR Investor Visa Categories E-2 and EB-5"
2007: Beverly Hills / Century City Legal Secretaries Association “The ABC’s of Immigration Law”
2006: Paralegal Super Conference “The ABC’s of Immigration Law”
2006: California Youth Think Tank “Immigration in America”
2005: Orange County Paralegal Association -19th Annual Educational Conference "Who? Me, Land in Jail? Business & Professions Code Sections 6450-6456”
2005 Los Angeles County Bar Association & Los Angeles Paralegal Association “The Bottom Line: Ethics, Hiring and Utilization for Paralegal Work under Business & Professions Code 6450”
2003: Los Angeles Paralegal Association’s 27th Annual October Conference “Immigration Law: The Nuts & Bolts of Family Immigration”
11/30/2000: Los Angeles County Bar Association “Training for the Pro Bono Representation Panel Terminal Island Detention”
Media:
Spring 2005: RECAP The Official Publication of CAPA, California Alliance of Paralegal Associations, Inc. www.CAPAralegal.org