Washington’s preeminent boutique immigration law firm.
Maggio & Kattar’s strategic vision and mission are shaped by our respect for our clients, their important role in our society, and the responsibilities with which they have entrusted us.
Maggio & Kattar is Washington's preeminent boutique immigration law firm, as well as its largest. Under the leadership of John Nahajzer and Jim Alexander -- and following the best traditions of its founder, the late Michael Maggio -- the firm represents individual foreign nationals and a select group of Fortune 500 and other companies as well as non-profits, universities and diverse institutions across the nation and around the world. We have employ more than 25 immigration professionals, twelve of whom are attorneys, and administrative staff.
Our clients shape our vision and our commitment to legal excellence.
Maggio & Kattar’s strategic vision and mission are shaped by our respect for our clients, their important role in our society, and the responsibilities with which they have entrusted us. We believe immigrants still define and invigorate our nation’s economic and cultural life. We are committed to helping foreign nationals, their employers, and families strengthen America through their risk-taking enterprising spirit, cultural diversity, and quest for a better life.
As a boutique firm with a limited number of institutional and individual clients, we achieve our commitment to legal excellence and the highest ethical standards and level of client service. We act as an extension of our clients’ human resources and legal departments, by facilitating the hiring and retention of the best and the brightest workers, and ensuring compliance with increasingly complex and frequently changing immigration laws.
We educate our clients and serve our community.
Educating our clients and our community also is essential to our mission. It is our view that immigration lawyers are teachers. We help our clients understand U.S. immigration law and procedure by providing ongoing client education. We also teach those in government who decide our clients’ cases. We help them understand what the law says, how our clients comply with the law, and why our clients qualify for the immigration benefit sought.
Community service also has been a consistent mission of our firm. Our attorneys do vast amounts of pro bono work. We are active in immigrants’ rights organizations, and we routinely teach immigration law to immigration and other attorneys.