Shannon McKinnon

Shannon McKinnon is an immigration attorney representing clients in healthcare, higher education, family-based, and humanitarian immigration matters. Her practice includes removal defense, asylum, crimmigration, family petitions, and immigration benefits for noncitizens. She helps clients understand complex procedures, prepare filings, and respond to government action. Her work supports individuals, families, employers, and institutions seeking lawful solutions in difficult immigration matters and proceedings.

Shannon earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She also earned a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her education supports legal research, writing, courtroom advocacy, and client counseling. She uses that background to analyze immigration options, prepare arguments, review criminal issues affecting status, and guide clients through removal defense, humanitarian relief, family immigration, and employment-related matters.

Shannon has built her career through immigration litigation, public interest advocacy, legal services leadership, and teaching. She served as Legal Director at Immigrant Justice Corps, where she led an in-house team providing affirmative and defensive immigration representation. She also practiced with immigrant rights programs in New York and New Jersey. Her experience includes adults, juveniles, detention matters, removal proceedings, crimmigration issues, and local policy advocacy.

Shannon McKinnon helps clients and legal teams address immigration problems with strategy, analysis, and clear advocacy. Her work supports people facing deportation, asylum claims, family immigration needs, criminal immigration consequences, or humanitarian relief questions. She also trains future immigration attorneys through practice-based teaching. Through litigation, legal education, and careful case review, she helps clients pursue informed decisions and stronger immigration outcomes.

Law Office Affiliations

• Senior Counsel, FordMurray Law
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association

Licensed State

• New York

Education

• New York University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of California at Los Angeles
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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