The Law Office of Susan Fortino-Brown, Chicago, Illinois, Immigration Business Employment Visa, Law Lawyer Attorney

SUSAN FORTINO-BROWN
sfortinobrown@sfortinolaw.net
Susan Fortino-Brown has practiced in the field of Immigration Law since 1987. Ms. Fortino-Brown is a past chair of the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She currently serves on the AILA National Liaison Committee to the US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) at Lincoln, Nebraska and previously served on the USCIS Benefits committee for AILA National, and AILA's Ethics committee. Ms. Fortino-Brown is presently on the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Law Foundation, is Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the National Immigrant Justice Center of Heartland Alliance and is a Liaison to the Board of Directors of Heartland Alliance. Ms. Fortino-Brown has also served as past-chair of the Chicago Bar Association Immigration & Nationality Law Section, has been a contributing author for past Immigration & Nationality Law Handbooks and speaks frequently at regional and national Immigration Law conferences. Ms. Fortino-Brown conducted a weekly radio program on Immigration Law and has appeared on national and local television as an expert on the topic. She has been recognized by the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, receiving the "2001 Women with Vision" award. She has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Lawyer Magazine. Ms. Fortino-Brown speaks Italian and is fluent in Spanish.

FATIMA G. MOHYUDDIN
fmohyuddin@sfortinolaw.net
Fatima G. Mohyuddin specializes in employment-based immigration, family-based immigration, waivers of inadmissibility, and political asylum. Ms. Mohyuddin joined the firm in 2009. Before joining the firm, she practiced immigration and nationality law at another law firm in Chicago and prior to that she was practicing in St. Louis. She was awarded a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship after graduating law school to participate in a work/seminar program in Germany with the Federal Justice Ministry in Berlin and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sub-Office in Nuremberg. Ms. Mohyuddin graduated from American University‘s Washington College of Law in 2001, and received a B.A. in Political Science and German Studies, magna cum laude from St. Louis University in 1998. Her publications and recognition include: "Now is the Time for Employers to Prepare to Beat the Fiscal Year 2008 H-1B Cap," The Globe Newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association‘s Section on International and Immigration Law (Jan. 2007); "Alternative Options for Employers to Consider in Light of the H-1B Visa Cap," The Federal Lawyer (May 2007); "AAO Finds Extreme Hardship, Grants Application for Waiver of Inadmissibility," Interpreter Releases (May 2007); and "United States Asylum Law in the Context of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Justice for the Transgendered?," Hastings Women‘s Law Journal (Summer 2001). Ms. Mohyuddin is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Muslim Bar Association, and the Pakistani-American Bar Association. She speaks Urdu/Hindi and German.

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