Professionals

Owais Qazi, Esq.

Being from an immigrant family himself, Owais Qazi understands what it means to fulfill the American dream.

Owais Qazi has been practicing immigration law for close to 20 years. His focus has been on business immigration which includes employment and investment immigration to the United States. Over the years, he has represented hundreds of corporate and individual clients in their pursuit of E-2, H-1B, labor certification, and employment based immigration petitions such as EB1 extraordinary ability applicants, advanced degree professionals (EB2), and skilled workers (EB3).

Owais Qazi, Esq.

Owais also possesses years of experience in other EB categories such as EB4 and EB5. He has worked extensively with IT professionals, architects, engineers, designers and various other professionals. Owais has handled some of the most complex employment based immigration cases requiring requests for evidence, successor in interest scenarios, company’s ability to pay issues, and effects of mergers and acquisitions on immigration petitions. 

Aside from business immigration, Owais also possesses a deep understanding of family based immigration issues such as consular processing of immigrant visas, adjustment of status, waivers, removal of conditions and battered and abused spouse cases under Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA). Owais is also experienced with appellate work in the federal court system having represented cases before the District Courts and appearing before the United States Court of Appeals before the 9th Circuit.

Languages

  • Urdu
  • Conversational Spanish

Education Admissions

  • Supreme Court of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. Court Of Appeal for The Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for The District Of Colorado

Education

  • Whittier Law School
  • University Of California Riverside

Sarah Jane Tumlayen – Paralegal

Sarah is our firm’s principal paralegal and our clients who have worked with her are well familiar with her friendly devotion to her clients and her diligent attention to their cases.