Immigration Attorney

Oguz Law; Walnut Creek (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oguz Law is seeking an Immigration Attorney to manage a full docket from intake to decision. You will handle humanitarian relief, family-based and adjustment matters, including I-589s, SIJS, and EOIR hearings.

In-person work is preferred at our Walnut Creek office, with hybrid or remote options considered. Strong Turkish language skills and an active U.S. bar license are required; travel for hearings and interviews is expected.

Qualifications

• Active bar license in a U.S. state, in good standing.
• Turkish at native level and English at professional level.
• Willingness to travel for in-person hearings and interviews.
• Newly admitted attorneys are welcome to apply to build this practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage your own immigration docket from start to finish.
• Screen for humanitarian relief, withholding, and CAT.
• Prepare I-589 filings, declarations, exhibits, and country conditions.
• Handle SIJS matters including predicate orders and I-360/I-485 filings.
• Oversee adjustment, removal of conditions, naturalization filings, and client interviews.
• Prepare briefs, pre-hearing statements, motions, RFEs, NOIDs.
• Coordinate master calendar and EOIR hearings; handle appeals to the BIA.
• Prepare clients and witnesses for hearings, including cross-examination.
• Direct paralegals on case builds and manage deadlines.

Skills

Bar license

Docket management

Travel ready

Turkish-English bilingual

Education

Active U.S. bar license

Job description

Immigration Attorney

We carry a heavy humanitarian and removal defense docket, alongside family-based and adjustment work, and need another attorney to take cases from start to finish.

The work

• Your own docket of affirmative and defensive protection cases, consultation through decision


• Screening for humanitarian relief, withholding of removal, and CAT


• I-589 filings, declarations, exhibit indexes, country conditions


• SIJS matters, including predicate order hearings in state court and the I-360 and I-485 filings that follow


• Adjustment, removal of conditions, and naturalization filings, and appearing with clients at those interviews


• Briefs, pre-hearing statements, motions, RFE and NOID responses


• Master calendar and individual hearings at EOIR, appeals to the BIA


• Prepping clients and witnesses, including for cross


• Directing paralegals on case builds


• Watching the dates: the one-year filing bar, call-ups, biometrics, the EOIR clock

You need

• Active bar license in a U.S. state, in good standing


• Turkish at native level, English at professional level


• In person preferred, hybrid or remote considered


• Willingness and ability to travel for in-person hearings and interviews


• The ability to run a full docket without dropping details


• Immigration experience preferred, not required. Newly admitted attorneys who want to build this practice are welcome to apply.