Professional Profile

Aisling Ryan is primarily involved in assisting large multinational financial services clients in immigrant and nonimmigrant employment based visas.  Her work involves all aspects of preparing and strategizing visa petitions, with a focus on a variety of legal issues.  Ms. Ryan has represented clients in obtaining approval in H-1B, L-1A, L-1B and E-3 visa petitions as well as TN applications under the North America Free Trade Agreement, and E Treaty Trader/Investor visas.  She has also assisted corporate clients in obtaining J-1 and H-3 training visas for management associates and other corporate trainees. Ms. Ryan has considerable experience in assisting business persons of extraordinary ability in O-1 and EB-1 extraordinary ability petitions, as well as I-140 petitions for multinational managers. She has also guided clients through the PERM labor certification process, and EB-2 and EB-3 green card applications.

As well as being admitted to the New York Bar, Ms. Ryan is a qualified Solicitor in Ireland, and previously practiced immigration law in Dublin.  There, she assisted individual clients in their business immigration needs, and represented Asylees before the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and in judicial review proceedings in the Irish High Court. She was a Board Member of the Irish Refugee Council from 2003 until 2006.  In New York, she undertook professional career training with Human Rights First, where she worked with Asylees in the Refugee Protection Program.  She has also provided pro bono representation to clients in New York in immigration petitions under the Violence Against Women Act.

Memberships and Affiliations

American Immigration Lawyers Association
New York State Bar Association

Articles, Publications and Lectures

"Guests of the Nation: Residency Rights for Non-Nationals", Law Society Gazette, 2004 

“Not in my Backyard: A look at the Undocumented in Ireland”, Irish Examiner USA, April 2006

Law Society of Ireland, Refugee Law Tutor, 2003 to 2006

Law Society of Ireland Conference Speaker: Migrant Workers and Human Rights Law, 10/2005

Terence Lyons & Co. Seminar: Developments in Immigration Law, Organizer and Speaker 9/2003

Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, Immigration Law Conference 2/2006

Professional and Community Involvement

Origin Theatre Company, Board of Directors, New York

Education

Master of Equality Studies, University College, Dublin, 1996
Bachelor of Civil Law (Law Degree), University College, Dublin, 1995

Bar Admissions

New York
Ireland (Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2003)