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Lecture and Q & A with immigration attorneys Ceridwen Koski and Amanda Goodman.
Free admission.
Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue @ 12th St.
Restaurant is closed in July, but the bar is open from 5.30pm. (Finnish HUVILA beer available!)
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Ceridwen J. Koski specializes in business and family immigration, assisting in
visa processes on behalf of all-sizes of corporations, start-up
companies, investors, and individuals. Ceridwen attended law school
in Arizona and came to New York in September 2006 to work in one of
the world's largest global immigration practices. She has experience
assisting in immigration matters for a fortune 50 company and more
recently, in a boutique firm, has focused on visa
matters for individual investors, start-up companies, and US branches
of global companies in a broad range of sectors and industries.
Ceridwen is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers
Association serving on the Corporate Practice and Department of Labor
Committees in New York and she has also assisted in asylum, TPS, and
removal cases pro-bono.
Having worked in the field since 2004, Ms. Goodman has extensive experience in the areas of business and family-based immigration. She represents clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with regard to non-immigrant visa applications, extraordinary ability, national interest waiver, and professional worker petitions, family based immigrant visa petitions, and applications for naturalization. She practices before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, representing clients in removal proceedings with regard to asylum claims, applications to adjust status to permanent residence, cancellation of removal, and other forms of relief.
Ms. Goodman is licensed in the State of New York and holds memberships with the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), American Bar Association (ABA) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She is a Committee Member on Immigration and Naturalization with both the NYSBA and ABA and a Consultant for the International YMCA. Ms. Goodman has also worked with the Justice for Neighbors Legal Clinic providing legal services to asylum seekers and provided Haitian TPS Application Assistance through the City of New York Citizenship Now project. Equally notable, she has volunteered her services for AILA’s Citizenship Day since 2004 and is actively involved in providing relief to the AIF victims of immigration fraud.
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