Susan Thorn
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Dec 1 @ 8:34 am for Susan Thorn About Susan Thorn
Susan Thorn is an immigration attorney based in New York City with over 19 years of immigrant and refugee rights advocacy experience in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Prior to establishing her solo practice in 2018, Susan practiced U.S. immigration law with two well-established New York-based immigration law firms as an Associate and several large nonprofit immigration legal service providers in New York City as a Staff Attorney.
She has assisted and counseled thousands of immigrants on a wide range of matters before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection), U.S. Department of State, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and in Immigration Court and New York Family Court.
Susan has represented individuals with diverse educational, professional, cultural, and criminal backgrounds in removal/deportation proceedings, at marriage fraud interviews, and on applications for naturalization, derivative citizenship, adjustment of status (“green card”), removal of conditions (I-751), asylum, and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) abused spouse classification, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and appeals, and consular/embassy cases including matters requiring extreme hardship waivers (I-601/I-601A).
BAR | COURT ADMISSIONS ~
New York Bar, 2006; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2015.
MEMBERSHIPS ~
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), 2007-Present; New York City Bar Association; Asian American Bar Association of New York.
LANGUAGES ~
English (native);
Vietnamese (proficient);
Italian (proficient).