Professional Profile

Filomena Lepore focuses her practice on corporate immigration counseling of Fortune 500 corporations, international financial institutions, small and emerging private companies, artists and individuals.  She regularly assists those clients in the strategizing and preparation of a wide range of visa petitions to facilitate both long and short term temporary work assignments, as well as permanent residence sponsorship and naturalization.  She advises corporate clients on ongoing immigration policy development and workforce compliance efforts.  In addition, Ms. Lepore practices family-based immigration, counseling and aiding U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and eligible family members in the acquisition and retention of U.S. immigration benefits. She has extensive experience representing employers and individuals in immigration matters with the U.S. Department of Labor, United States Citizenship & Immigration Services and U.S. Department of State consular posts abroad.

Ms. Lepore is also particularly active in pro bono representation of indigent foreign nationals including victims of human trafficking, abandoned or neglected juveniles, victims of domestic violence and deportees and detainees who risk separation from U.S. citizen family members.

Memberships and Affiliations

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, New York Law School, 2004
B.S., cum laude, History, Colgate University, 2001

Bar Admissions

New York
New Jersey

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey