Ms. Rami Lee is an experienced US Immigration Attorney with a sincere passion for excellence in immigration law. Ms. Lee’s passion for excellence in immigration law derives from her own family’s first-hand immigration experiences.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Lee and the Lee Family arrived in the United States in 1986 and finally became US Citizens in 1998. Raised in a traditional Korean-American first generation immigration family,  Ms. Lee’s father’s unwavering devotion in raising his four children and the experiences and sacrifices he made so that each of his children can achieve the American Dream has made Ms. Lee a more honest, hardworking, and compassionate immigration attorney.   Each case Ms. Lee works on she sees her own family’s immigration experiences, hopes, and dreams.  Being an immigrant herself, Ms. Lee sincerely understands each one of her client's immigration goals and works effectively to help each client achieve the American Dream.

Immigration Experience
Ms. Lee practices in all areas of business immigration, health care immigration, and family immigration.  Ms. Lee manages the immigration practice at Weisel, Xides & Foerster located in Pittsburgh, PA and she also maintains an immigration practice in Princeton, NJ. Ms. Lee is licensed before the NJ Supreme Court and because the practice of US Immigration Law is purely federal (national) in scope, she can effectively represent clients nationwide.   She currently represents various individual clients, start-up companies, foreign researchers, doctors, businessmen, and multinational companies and executives within the US and internationally.

Ms. Lee has significant hands-on processing experience filing hundreds of successful immigration applications, specifically in the areas of PERM, H1B Visas, Schedule A Nurses, Alien of Extraordinary Ability Petitions, National Interest Waivers, L1 Intra-Company Transferees, Multinational Manager Green Cards, Conrad Waivers, J1 Visa Waivers, Outstanding Researchers, Extreme Hardship Waivers, Fraud Waivers, Battered Spouse Petitions, Asylum Applications, Consular Processing, Deportation and Removal Proceedings.

Ms. Lee also has extensive immigration litigation experience.  She has filed various Motions, Appeals, Writs of Habeas Corpus, Petitions for Rehearing, before the Board of Immigration Appeals, Administrative Appeals Office, USCIS, various federal and district courts. Ms. Lee appeared before the US Immigration Court during deportation/removal proceedings and attended marriage interviews, US Citizenship interviews, and family-based green card interviews.

Legal Work Experience

• Pittsburgh immigration boutique law firm (August 2005-August 2007, Supervising Attorney; December 2004-July 2005, Law Clerk)
• Pittsburgh Regional Immigration Assistance Center (May 2004-November 2004, Legal Intern)
• Ford Institute for Human Security (April 2004-April 2005, Graduate Assistant, Comparative Immigration Policy & Corporate Social Responsibility Project)
• Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius (November 2000-June 2001, Intern, FDA Group in the Antitrust Department)
• GWU Jacob Burns Legal Clinic Federal Appellate Clinic (September 1998-June 2001, Research Assistant) and the Small Business Clinic (April 2000-August 2000)

Education

• JD, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• MPIA, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
• BA, George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs as a junior, with senior standing.

Licenses
Ms. Lee is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of New Jersey and various federal courts.

Honors and Awards

• Graduate Honoree, University of Pittsburgh's Honors Convocation (2006)
• University of Pittsburgh School of Law Community Service Award (2005)

Associations

• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA-New Jersey and Pittsburgh Chapters)
• Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA)
• Asian Attorney Committee (ACBA)
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA)
• Business Referral Network (Pittsburgh South Side Chapter)

Languages
Ms. Lee speaks Fluent English, Fluent Korean, and Basic Spanish.