With eight years of experience as an immigration specialist and paralegal, Gilda Avila offers on-demand guidance and extensive knowledge on complex immigration issues. She delivers analysis and recommendations to attorneys and clients based on data and industry benchmarking.
OVERVIEW
Gilda Avila
Immigration Coordinator
OVERVIEW
Gilda Avila
Immigration Coordinator
With eight years of experience as an immigration specialist and paralegal, Gilda Avila offers on-demand guidance and extensive knowledge on complex immigration issues. She delivers analysis and recommendations to attorneys and clients based on data and industry benchmarking.
- OVERVIEW
- EXPERIENCE
- Presentations
- INSIGHTS AND EVENTS
OVERVIEW
Gilda is responsible for a range of business immigration cases including but not limited to adjustment of status (AOS), Program Electronic Review Management (PERM), and PERM audit responses, request for evidence (RFE) responses, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, E-3, EB-5, O-1, Q-1, N-400, N-600, I-140, I-601 waivers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and TN status.
She also drafts and files employment-based immigration and non-immigrant petitions with a concentration on EB-5 cases, PERM recruitment, and I-9 audits.
Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Gilda was an immigration paralegal and specialist with Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP and Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, as well as with Rush University Medical Center.
Professional and Community Involvement
Member, Illinois Paralegal AssociationEXPERIENCE
Presentations
- The Immigration Paralegal Who, What, Why, and Golden Opportunities, Paralegal Knowledge Institute, May 13, 2015
INSIGHTS AND EVENTS
