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Eileen Chun-Fruto

echun@fongandchun.com
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Phone: (323) 769-8187
Fax: (323) 856-5808

6255 Sunset Blvd, Suite 915
Los Angeles, California 90028

I can answer any employment-based immigration question including questions about PERM labor certifications, H-1B skilled workers, L-1A multinational managers or executives and L-1B specialized knowledge, R-1 and I-360 religious workers, investor cases (E Treaty Trader and E Treaty Investors and EB-5 "million dollar investors") and O-1 extraordinary ability cases.

I can also answer any questions regarding family-based immigration, such as adoptions, waiver cases, consular processing (using foreign consulates to enter as an immigrant), marriage and fiance/fiancee cases, 245(i) cases, VAWA (Violence Against Women's Act), battered spouses, and Child Status Protection Act (CSPA).

I have over 12 years of experience in business and family immigration. I was a former law clerk for the Executive Officer for Immigration Review (the immigration courts) in San Francisco and I current serve as the California Service Center's (CSC) liaison on behalf of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. I represent individuals and corporations alike, ranging from professionals in the high tech, science, liberal arts fields. I have a special niche in working with start-up companies and individuals with more complex immigration issues.

My typical business clients can range from a start-up company, established engineering and software research and development companies, manufacturing, trade and distribution companies, public and private schools, and religious organizations. Family clients include spouses, parent-child petitions, siblings, naturalization, and most especially, representation of abandoned and neglected children viewed as orphans under the immigration law. I have represented many clients who relied on special provisions of the immigration law to preserve or "grandfather" benefits to family members in limited (and complicated) circumstances, to avoid re-application fees and longer waiting times.

Education

JD, UC Davis – King Hall SOL, 1997
US Dept of Justice, Judicial Extern, Executive Office for Immigration Review (1997) Journal of International Law and Policy, Articles Editor Public Interest Law Scholar, UC Davis Immigration Clinic Law Clerk (1995-1997) President, Asian Pacific America Law Students Association (1995-96)

BA - Social Sciences, UC Irvine, 1994
Asian American Studies Program, Director Search, University of California, Irvine
1993-94

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Supreme Court of California , 1998
9th Circuit, 1998
United States of America Supreme Court, 2008

Professional & Bar Association Memberships

American Immigration Lawyers Association
Speaker, Young Lawyers Division: Topics in H-1B Visa Processing

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Member – Executive Committee, Immigration Section
Speaker/Moderator: O-1 Professional Visas, Religious Worker Visas California Service Center Liaison Programming Committee Co-Chair: Advanced Issues in Family-based Immigration, O-1 Professionals

SuperLawyers.com
Rising Star: Immigration law, 2005,06,07,08

Languages

English and Cantonese