More than 50 years of immigration law under the Oltarsh name.
We handle immigration and nationality matters for individuals, families, and companies, from our office in Midtown Manhattan.
What we do.
Much of our work is bringing key employees to the United States for international companies and foundations, and sponsoring permanent residence for workers and for the relatives of U.S. citizens and green card holders.
We also represent several foreign consulates in the legal matters of their nationals in the U.S.
When a case needs it, we go past USCIS: to the Administrative Appeals Office and the Board of Immigration Appeals, and to federal court, where we sue over unlawful delays, file habeas petitions for clients held by ICE, and take cases to the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
Our office is at 494 Eighth Avenue, at the corner of 35th Street. Between us we speak Spanish and Italian, and we work with translators for other languages.
Our team at 494 Eighth Avenue.
Every client has a lead attorney and a case manager.
Milestones.
William H. Oltarsh graduates summa cum laude from Hobart College and is elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He earns his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
He is admitted to the New York bar and to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
He is admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
He founds Oltarsh & Oltarsh in New York.
He co-authors “Palmer Raids Revisited” in The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Jennifer Oltarsh earns her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and is admitted to the New York bar.
She is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
She founds Oltarsh & Associates.
She is named to Super Lawyers for the first time, and every year since.
Our attorneys.
Jennifer Oltarsh
Jennifer’s practice covers business immigration, family petitions, and removal defense. For business clients, she has overturned improper applications of the intracompany transferee rules.
Early in her career she challenged the Immigration Service’s use of dental exams to estimate the age of young asylum seekers, work recognized in The Oregonian’s Pulitzer Prize winning series. She won gender-based asylum cases, including FGM and honor killing claims, while that area of law was still taking shape.
William H. Oltarsh
William specialized in immigration law and international business for more than 40 years. He served as secretary of the Immigration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as treasurer of the New York chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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