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Amanda Rizzo

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Amanda Rizzo

Senior Attorney

Amanda is a Senior Attorney and has extensive experience in family-based immigration, consular processing, naturalization, humanitarian relief, extraordinary ability petitions, and federal litigation. She has been working in the immigration legal field since 2011.

Before joining the firm, Amanda practiced employment-based immigration as well as deportation defense. She represented employers of all kinds, from small local businesses to international multi-billion dollar corporations, in securing nonimmigrant visas, PERM certifications, and green cards for their employees. She also practiced before the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals on various removal defense cases, including asylum, cancellation of removal, and adjustment of status. Thanks to her broad experience, Amanda can comprehensively counsel her clients in multiple aspects of immigration law.

Amanda is particularly passionate about her practice with musicians of extraordinary ability, achieving F-1 to O-1B change of status and EB-1A petitions. Amanda also supports her clients in immigration delay cases in federal court, including appeals of naturalization denials.

Knowledgeable in complex humanitarian relief, Amanda advocates for her clients who were the victims of crime, trafficking, labor abuse, and domestic violence to seek relief and safety in the United States.

Languages
  • Italian
Education
  • B.S., conferred cum laude, Indiana University, 2008
  • J.D., conferred cum laude, DePaul University College of Law, 2013
Admissions
  • State of Illinois, 2013
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2022
Professional Associations and Memberships
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
    • AILA Diplomatic & Government Committee, current member
    • AILA Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, former member
    • AILA Detainee Legal Services Committee, former member
  • National Immigration Litigation Alliance
Pro Bono
  • Amanda has been providing limited pro bono legal services to the students of Fugees Family since 2023.
  • Former Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

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