Lilia Alcaraz

LILIA ALCARAZ has over 20 years of experience in immigration and tax law. She is licensed as an attorney in Arizona and California and has been certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California. Her work today brings her before federal courts and administrative agencies across the United States, at US ports of entry, and to US diplomatic missions worldwide.

While growing up in an immigrant community as the first member of her family to be born in the United States, Lilia bore first-hand witness to the struggles immigrants face when trying to adapt and live in a new country. Her work, today in immigration, is not just a career—it has been a passionate way of life for her for as long as she can remember.

Ms. Alcaraz helps her clients obtain treaty trader and investor (E-1 and E-2) visas, employment (H-1B and L-1) visas, TN visas for employees under the USMCA and NAFTA, and visas for people in the sciences, education, business, performing arts, and sports (O and P visas). She has extensive experience with pursuing permanent resident status in the United States for people through business (EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, and EB-5) immigration programs, family-based adjustments of status or consular processing (K visas) through marriage or other personal relationships, and national interest waiver applications with the US Department of Homeland Security.

Lilia Alcaraz advises companies on immigration compliance issues during corporate mergers and acquisitions and advises foreign nationals with pre-immigration tax and estate planning in the United States. She also coordinates and defends against ICE Homeland Security Investigations Form I-9 audits and raids. Finally, she helps managers design, implement, and evaluate worksite labor compliance programs.

Her trial work and legal arguments have been noted and adopted in several published opinions by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.