Kevin L. Dixler

Mr. Dixler limits his fifteen year old practice to immigration, visa law, citizenship and related matters. Many clients are family immigration clients, because he encourages family visas over employment-based visas. Others are foreigners or permanent residents with criminal arrests or convictions. Criminal attorneys contact him about the immigration consequences of a criminal record to foreign clients. He has significant experience with waivers of inadmissibility for crime, fraud and unlawful presence and lectures on this topic. Mr. Dixler successfully defends clients at both the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals.  He has filed successful lawsuits against the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in Federal Court to challenge unreasonable delays with adjudication and name checks. He is functionally bilingual in Spanish.

 Gazala Momin

Ms. Momin is the office's Senior Legal Assistant.  She has nearly three years of experience with the firm, but over ten years of experience in the field of immigration law.  She has spent most of her life in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago within the Indian Community.  She formerly worked for Mark Anvaripour and Associates before joining our office.  She looks forward to completing her studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  She is fluent in both Hindi and Urdu.

Accomplishments

Chicago Branches of Fortune 100 ® Companies, among others, depend upon the Law Office of Kevin L. Dixler for business, entertainment-related and I-9 compliance related immigration matters. He has represented asylees from a number of nations in turmoil with a recent emphasis on Pakistan and Sudan. He was selected as a commentator on immigration law for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Fox News, Telemundo and WBEZ, among other news organizations.

Firm History

Mr. Dixler has remained a member of the private immigration bar in Chicago for nearly fifteen years. However, he previously worked as a licensed prosecutor and assistant with both the Cook County States Attorney and the Law Department of the City of Chicago. He was also part  of the Law Offices of Richard S. Cohan. In 1998, his practice took over limited professional responsibility for immigration clients formerly represented by the Law Offices of T.V. Weber of Aurora, Illinois. He also serves of counsel to Mark Anvaripour and Associates in Chicago, among other immigration and visa law firms, nationwide.

Client History

Approximately 95% of his clients have a family member in the Chicago area or the State of Illinois. They depend upon him for his candid advice on visa processing and the role of an attorney in the process. Persistent attorneys often spend unreasonable amounts of time with the adjudications branch at the district and regional level.  The Chicago District Office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is a large office that is often administratively challenged in its effort to determine who merits permanent resident status. Often, proper levels of funding are not spent to adequately train and staff the Chicago office. Mr. Dixler has also worked with and traveled to the border, U.S.C.I.S. district offices and various immigration courts across the nation to represent his clients.

Memberships

Mr. Dixler regularly attends and participates in numerous national, regional, and local immigration law conferences and roundtables as a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association [AILA]. He also served on the AILA National Waivers Committee from 2006-2007 and helped edit its upcoming 2007 AILA Waiver Handbook for Attorneys. He assists renowned speakers, lectures colleagues, and assisted other attorneys on immigration matters. He served as a member of the AILA's National Admissions and Removal Committee during the 2001-2002 term. Such a commitment allows us to give our clients the advice needed to make the right decisions.