Meet Andrea Rodriguez
Andrea Rodriguez has over 15 years of experience in Immigration legal services. She works in family-based immigration, consular processing, humanitarian relief, deportation defense, naturalization, and related legal counseling for anyone in need of an immigration expert.
Andrea earned her J.D. at the CUNY School of law in 2002. While there, she was the recipient of several public interest fellowships that led to working at organizations on the areas of voting rights, poverty law, and civil rights. Following law school, she became an Equal Justice Works Fellow working in Environmental Justice issues in New York City.
Her career in immigration law was rooted during her work at the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), a non-profit organization that has provided immigration-related services to Latino families in the D.C. area for over 30 years. During her years there as the Director of Legal Services, she helped thousands of people obtain permanent residency, U.S. citizenship and other types of legal status.
Throughout her career, she has worked for the immigrant and legal community in education and outreach, organizing immigration workshops, trainings for pro bono attorneys and law students, and has spoken at several events at universities, public schools, and at non-profit organizations.
She is admitted to practice law in the Bar of New York, is a member of the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association (AILA), and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Immigration Law Section of The Federal Bar Association.
Andrea is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants. She is intimately familiar with the complexities of US. immigration law and is a competent, compassionate attorney who knows how to deliver results.
In The Media
Throughout her work in Immigration, Andrea has shared her expertise with different news sources within the community.
She provides a weekly Facebook Live session on Immigration with media personality, El Chele Gonzalez.
Andrea has also provided information on immigration with other news sources such as Univision, Telemundo, CNN Español, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, El Pregonero, and Washington Hispanic, and many more.
You can find her in the news here:
Univision TV interview on Scams targeting immigrants
On Telemundo discussing ICE crackdowns
https://www.facebook.com/WZDCTelemundo/videos/1743252705704708/
On Univision discussing immigration court backlogs
https://noticiasya.com/washington-dc/2017/05/18/retrasos-en-cortes-de-inmigracion-en-ee-uu/
Article in Washington Post about Central American women seeking asylum
Washington Post Article about DACA and TPS people not able to travel
EFE/ San Diego Tribune article about DACA and its limitations
CNN Español interview on new Naturalization Form
http://www.1src.com/video/t_JhRA5OKHtVQ
Think progress article on surge of children fleeing Central America
WAMU radio story on people with TPS
http://wamu.org/story/12/02/24/salvadorans_seek_a_golden_ticket_to_us_residency/
Scripps Howard Foundation Fellowship news wire article on child migrant surge
http://www.shfwire.com/node9326/
El Pregonero articles on TPS
Article in El Salvador.com ( Salvadoran national news)
Radio Primerisima interview on TPS and drunk driving charges
http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/144523/salvadorenos-pierden-tps-por-conducir-borrachos
Univision TV interview on TPS
http://www.holaciudad.com/Permisos-TPS-salvadorenos-extienden-automaticamente_0_281371880.html