What the role is

Your own docket, your own consultations, and your own merits hearings.
Removal defense and crimmigration alongside family and business petitions.
Supervising paralegals and legal assistants on your cases.
A path to running a practice group as the firm grows.
Benefits available after 90 days.

What we are looking for

Admission and good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
Immigration experience, and EOIR practice in particular.
Consultations you have run and clients you have signed at the end of them.
Spanish, Arabic, Haitian Creole or Portuguese at a client-facing level is a real advantage.
Immigration is the only law you will practice here.

Why work with us

One area of law, done properlyYou will not be splitting your attention across practice areas. Everyone here goes deep on the same body of law, which means the person at the next desk has seen your problem before.
Federal court work most immigration firms never touchHabeas petitions, petitions for review, APA suits. Most immigration practices stop at USCIS and the immigration courts. Ahmad is admitted in multiple federal circuits and takes cases there when the administrative road runs out.
Work that is read, not just processedAhmad personally reviews every case before the consultation, and reads every application to this firm — including this one.
A practice that actually speaks its clients’ languagesEnglish, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese are all spoken on this team, and Haitian Creole is wanted. If you are multilingual you will use it every day rather than listing it on a résumé.
Seats that lead somewhereThe legal assistant role is where we promote paralegals from, and the contract attorney role is how attorneys become full-time here. Both are deliberate, not a consolation.

About the firm

American Dream Law Office, PLLC is an immigration law firm based in Tampa, with offices in St. Petersburg, Orlando, Miami, New York City and Washington, D.C., representing clients across Florida, New York, D.C. and internationally.

We do one thing. Immigration is not a department here — it is the whole practice: removal defense and crimmigration, asylum and VAWA self-petitions, family and business petitions, and federal court litigation when a case has run out of administrative road.

The firm was founded by Attorney Ahmad Yakzan, who is admitted in Florida and in multiple U.S. federal circuit courts, is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, was named a SuperLawyers Rising Star in immigration from 2017 through 2020, and has held Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating since 2019. He hosts The American Dream Podcast and keeps a library of educational immigration videos in English, Spanish and Arabic.

Offices: Tampa · St. Petersburg · Orlando · Miami · New York City · Washington, D.C.

This work is not quiet. Clients call frightened, sometimes from detention, and deadlines are set by the government rather than by us — the firm commits to answering every client within 24 hours. If you want a slow desk, this is not it. If you want the kind of work where getting the details right changes where a family lives, it is.

Applying

The application takes about five minutes. Every answer is read by Attorney Ahmad Yakzan.

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