About Shifa Soressa

Dedicated to the highest quality legal service — delivered in a timely manner.

The Law Office of Shifa Soressa is an immigration practice based in Midtown Manhattan with more than twenty years of experience representing clients before USCIS, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. The practice serves individuals, families, and employers across the full range of immigration matters — from asylum and removal defense to permanent residence and nonimmigrant visas.

Representation has included asylum seekers, clients with criminal convictions, national interest waiver applicants, and immigrants of extraordinary ability — including leading scientists, outstanding researchers, and some of the world's best-known athletes. Cases are handled personally, with the attention and preparation that immigration law demands.

Credentials & Bar Admissions

• Admitted to practice in the State of New York
• Admitted to the United States District Court, Southern District of New York
• Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)

Philosophy

Immigration law is not transactional. Each case is a person, a family, a future. The work demands careful preparation, honest counsel about both opportunities and risks, and the steady, patient advocacy that complex cases require. Clients deserve to understand exactly where their case stands — and what comes next — at every step.

Commitment to Clients

We make ourselves accessible to all our clients. Office policy is to return phone calls the same day. Strategy is discussed openly, fees are quoted in advance, and the work is done by the attorney engaged to do it — not handed off. After more than twenty years of practice, that approach has not changed, and it will not.