Milton P. Buffington is an attorney who has lived immigration law. In 1970 He married a woman from the Middle East (with whom he is still happily married) and had his first taste of the US immigration legal system as a student of law at the University of Texas, Austin when he applied for his wife's green card.
Milton P. Buffington has been practicing law since 1974 when he joined a law firm in the Middle East in order to provide contract preparation and negotiation services for major infrastructure projects.He has handled a wide variety of immigration issues from immigrant and non-immigrant visa filings to the representation of clients before immigration courts throughout the US.
He continued his legal studies at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, obtaining a Diploma in Comparative Law, and then practiced law for 4 years in the Middle East where he was involved with transactional and contract issues for major infrastructure projects. After returning to the US in 1979 he began practicing immigration law on a full-time basis while continuing his commercial practice including mergers and acquistions for a publicly-traded company.
He is a member of the DC Bar and the American Immigration Lawyer's Association and he has written for Middle East Insight, Middle East Economic Digest and Silk Road.He served as an advisor to the Georgetown University Law Center international negotiations seminar and was formerly Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
Upon his return to the US in 1978, Mr. Buffington began practicing immigration law in addition to other commercial work. Immigration law has become increasingly complex and subject to frequent change as America seeks to find a balance between its need for individuals who can contribute to its continued growth and vitality and the need to ensure that future generations can expect a standard of living equal to or better than that which exists today.