Alcaraz Tocchini LLP is an immigration law firm focused on United States immigration and consular law. We help individuals and families who are foreign nationals find the best way to gain legal status to live and work in the United States. We also help U.S. employers who want to obtain legal status for their foreign national employees.

Our clients range from high-tech companies in the software and telecommunications sectors, to management consulting firms, and to hotels and resorts seeking seasonal labor. Our clients are located throughout the United States and the world.  Because immigration law is federal in nature, our firm is able to provide U.S. business immigration services to clients located anywhere in the United States and around the world.

We practice in all areas of immigration law, including deportation defense, business, employment and family-based immigration law, including green cards, work permits, naturalization, employer assistance, all visas and other related matters.   

ABOUT LILIA ALCARAZ

Lilia G. Alcaraz is a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California Department of Legal Specialization. She leads the firm's immigration and global migration practice group.  She represents clients in all areas of immigration law, including family, employment, and business immigration.  Her clients include established corporations, start-up companies, and individuals from a wide range of educational and cultural backgrounds.  

She assists individuals in obtaining legal immigration status through family or self petitions, including obtaining green cards through marriage for our clients. She also advises businesses on immigration compliance issues, coordinates I-9 audits, and lectures to managers on worksite compliance programs.    

Ms. Alcaraz defends clients from deportation before immigration courts across the United States.  She also represents individuals before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Alcaraz has obtained several favorable published opinions before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

She has served as an author for the AILA Annual Conference Publication and has served as a Lead Panel Discussion Leader for the AILA Annual Conference.

During law school, Ms. Alcaraz was a judicial intern for The Honorable Dean A. LeVay for the United States Immigration Court in Phoenix, Arizona.  She also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and she completed post-graduate legal studies in taxation at the University of Denver. 

CURRICULUM VITAE

LL.M. (Taxation), University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Juris Doctor, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Diploma, International and Comparative Law, Cornell Law School and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology and Spanish, University of Arizona

Bar Licenses: California, Arizona, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Memberships: American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Arizona and California Bar Associations, and Pima County Bar Association

Languages: English (U.S.) and Spanish

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