Posts in CMaker - Immigration
Women Creating Change: Immigration Attorney Shweta Rathore Shares How She Embraces Compassion and Empathy in Her Journey

“I have learned to hold on to that hope and fight even if sometimes the cost is bidding goodbye to your home and memories of your lifetime!” Today’s woman dreamer, Shweta Rathore is an Immigration Law Clerk with expertise in Asylum and Removal defenses (Domestic violence clients and women persecuted under Caste and religious inclinations). A  2022 LLM graduate of University of San Francisco, CA, Shweta previously was an Attorney in India, where she worked for many Pakistani Refugee young girls and women entering India. Currently, she is working as an Immigration Law Clerk for a prestigious Immigration Law firm in San Francisco, California. She is shaping her career by working in her dream job sector and her motto stands clear “being compassionate and empathetic is futile if we don’t practice it in real life”

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Alka Mahajan on The Rise of Women in Immigration Law and The Pandemic’s Impact on Immigration and Family

“It is deeply rewarding to be able to make such a positive impact on someone’s life when they get their green card or when they are reunited with a family member.” Today’s woman dreamer, Alka Mahajan is a Boston-based immigration attorney. Inspired by her own experience of immigrating to the United States from India, she helps families navigate challenges, uncertainty and hardships that the U.S. immigration process can present, such as during the Covid pandemic. Today, Alka shares how more and more women are entering the field, and how Covid-19 has impacted immigration (travel bans, consulate closures, green cards). An inspiring woman dreamer, enjoy her story!

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How a Harvard-Educated Immigration Lawyer Confronts "Screen Blindness"

“It happened after a busy year of being buried in my computer late into every night. In 2017, I had developed a rare unknown vision disorder – severe sensitivity to artificial light.” From having to stay away from the computer to avoiding flourescant lights in grocery stores, today’s woman dreamer, Samia Chandraker, a Harvard-educated Immigration attorney and the founder of Samia Law, shares a powerful story of finding the silver lining in a dark digital cloud. Samia shares how she adjusted her lifestyle to fit the condition, and overcame the adversity. Further, she shares how her law firm has been helping Indians visit their families during these tough times, how Covid-19 has impacted travel, and her expertise on the ongoing changes to immigration law.

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