Ms. Yunus is the Principal Attorney and Founder of Yunus Law. Her practice focuses exclusively on U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law. She represents clients from all over the country and abroad in employment based immigration, family based immigration, and also in removal defense before the U.S. Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals.
Ms. Yunus has obtained approvals for clients applying for PERM labor certification, E-2 Investor Visas, National Interest Waivers, H1b Visas, L1 Visas and employment-based U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence ("green card") for foreign nationals ranging from small business employees, student visa holders, and employees of multi-national corporations and educational institutions. Prior to founding Yunus Law, Ms. Yunus accrued extensive business immigration experience at a well-known local immigration firm in Chicago managing over 200 clients.
Ms. Yunus also has extensive experience with family based immigration applications and petitions to USCIS and the Department of State. She has successfully represented clients in applications for naturalization, adjustment of status, F1 and B change of status requests, and extensions of status in business immigration and family immigration matters. This includes applications for fiancé visas, petitions for spouses, children, and siblings of U.S. citizens, Requests for Humanitarian Reinstatement and Humanitarian Parole, and much more. Ms. Yunus also has a vibrant removal defense practice getting her clients asylum, cancellation of removal, and other forms of relief from deportation. She has successfully filed on behalf of her clients Motions to Advance, Cancellation of Removal for LPR and non-LPR clients, and Motions to Terminate removal proceedings.
Ms. Yunus believes in providing a full-service experience to her clients. Once hired, Yunus Law gives full service representation, including preparing and filing the applications, assisting with getting medical records, drafting affidavits for clients, and much more. She ensures all clients get a detailed briefing prior to any USCIS or embassy interview, attends interviews with her clients, drafts business plans, letters of recommendation, and forms business entities for her business immigration clients, assists clients in obtaining social security cards and benefits, and more.
She is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and Immigration Courts nationwide. She is an active member in good standing of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 2012, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers, and the Muslim Bar Association of New York.
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Languages: Urdu, Punjabi, English
