Knowledgeable. Practical. Compassionate.
Ian Campbell is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Texas at Austin practicing immigration and nationality law.
With nearly a decade of experience, Ian has handled thousands of successful immigration cases. Immigration is a calling for Ian, who went to law school with the goal of becoming an immigration attorney, and has focused his career on the field ever since.
Ian takes pride and personal satisfaction in knocking down barriers to visas and green cards, whether those barriers are complex processes, erroneous government actions, or simply the high cost of immigration fees.
All clients will work with Ian directly throughout their case.
Ian represents individuals and employers with all of the following:
Industry experience for employment-based visas includes: Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Semiconductors, Chemicals, Aerospace, Climatology, Manufacturing, Finance, IT, Arts, Business, Law, Etc.
I'm a lifelong fan of technology (I've maintained a list of what I consider "the most important inventions in history" since I was very young). One of my goals in going into immigration law was to eventually handle a visa application for someone who created a major, globally prominent invention. Unsurprisingly, a lot of those people are in fact immigrants to the U.S. It was an honor to be a small part of this process.
Because of this person's prominence, I gathered evidence and wrote this application within a few days based only on publicly available information, without any input from the (very busy) applicant. When he read the draft application, he was impressed, telling my supervising attorney that it contained a lot of information and arguments about his extraordinary ability that even he was not aware of. He asked her if our firm had a research team. She said, "No, I just have an associate who went to Harvard."
As was common during the Trump administration, my friend had received a tough RFE on her initial application, with very probing questions and high standards from the officer. My friend brought me onto the case solely to help prepare a response to the request. This was one of my favorite cases to work on, not only because I got to help a friend who deserved to get the visa, but because when you're a lawyer, working on a case where you have to respond to challenging demands from the government is exciting. Her case was approved. Years later, I heard that this friend told someone else at a party that I was the reason she was still in the U.S.
This man had spent more than 20 years in prison in the U.S. for committing a crime. But then, a court found that the DNA evidence on which his criminal conviction was based was legally inadequate, and he was released from prison.
As soon as he was released, he was picked up by ICE immigration officers and put into deportation proceedings, because he had no lawful immigration status. We asked the immigration judge not to send him back to his home country because of the risks he faced there. The immigration judge initially denied this application and ordered his removal from the U.S. However, the Board of Immigration Appeals overturned the immigration judge. They found that the judge had not addressed all of the arguments in our legal brief, which I had worked very hard to develop. The man was released from immigration custody and allowed to stay in the U.S.
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