I have extensive experience with family-based immigration and naturalization cases, non-immigrant visas, deportation defense, and appellate work. I obtained my Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.  I earned my J.D. from Villanova Law School in 2006, During my time at Villanova, I participated in the Clinic for Asylum Refugee and Emigrant Services Clinic (CARES). Through CARES, I had the opportunity to travel to Malta to prepare and represent unaccompanied minors from the Horn of Africa for asylum hearings before the Maltese Refugee Commission. I am admitted to both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Bars. I am also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the District Court of New Jersey, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.  I am the past Chairman of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).