What the role is
- An independent contractor engagement, worked on U.S. Eastern time.
- Chasing the paperwork a filing is waiting on, and knowing exactly what is still missing.
- Getting documents named, filed and findable before anyone has to ask.
- The seat we promote paralegals out of.
What we are looking for
- No legal experience required — we train.
- High proficiency in English, in writing as much as on the phone.
- Spanish, Arabic, Haitian Creole or Portuguese is worth real weight.
- Care with detail and follow-through, because nobody is in the room to check.
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.
- A foreign law degree counts for something hereTwo of the people preparing cases are attorneys qualified outside the United States — in the Dominican Republic and in Colombia — and a third holds a Nicaraguan law degree. If that is your background, it is an asset in this firm rather than something to explain.
- Remote is how this firm already runsThe team works from Nicaragua, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Spain and the U.S. You would not be the experiment, and nobody here needs convincing that the arrangement works.
- 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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