Victoria Chen

Victoria Chen is an immigration attorney who practices exclusively in US Immigration and Nationality Law. Her work focuses on employment-based immigration matters, including National Interest Waiver, EB1-A, and other classifications. She studies approval and denial cases, Administrative Appeals Office decisions, judicial review opinions, and USCIS memoranda to evaluate case strengths and weaknesses. She personally reviews each case before filing and updates internal guidance when immigration laws, regulations, or agency policies change, supporting consistent and careful case preparation for clients today.

Victoria earned her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. During her final year of law school, she attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her legal studies at Michigan included focused research into the arguments, structures, and formats used in National Interest Waiver, EB1-A, and other employment-based immigration petitions. This academic and research background helped shape the structured approach she later applied when evaluating immigration cases and developing internal methods for assessing petition strengths and weaknesses effectively.

Victoria has devoted substantial attention to analyzing immigration decisions and developing structured methods for case evaluation. Her research contributed to the NIW Credential Test and EB1 Credential Test used by the firm to assess qualifications under specific immigration classifications. These tools are designed to identify case strengths and weaknesses and guide credential improvement when needed. She remains involved in meetings concerning immigration trends and regulations from USCIS and DHS and incorporates relevant updates into internal guidance and case preparation practices.

Victoria Chen is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association. She speaks English and Mandarin and continues to monitor developments affecting employment-based immigration matters. Before pursuing her law degree, she worked as a legal assistant to pro bono human rights attorneys and contributed to efforts involving death-sentence cases. Her profile reflects a sustained focus on immigration research, careful petition review, and adapting legal strategies to changes in agency guidance, regulations, and adjudication trends.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, North American Immigration Law Group
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Member, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• Michigan

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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