Annamaria focuses her practice on business immigration, corporate compliance and global immigration matters, representing multi-national corporations and companies, as well as individual clients. She has experience with all areas of employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions, particularly individual L-1, blanket L, O-1, J-1, E-1/E-2 petitions, as well as outstanding researcher petitions. Annamaria leads the firm’s Global Visa Team and regularly assists clients with global immigration matters, including business and work visas to countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. As part of the firm’s global immigration practice, she also represents clients in Canadian business immigration matters, including applications for work permits, temporary resident visas, and temporary resident permits.
Annamaria also has experience representing clients in family-based immigrant visa petitions, adjustments of status, removal of conditions, as well as naturalization applications.
Annamaria has a JD from the American University’s Washington College of Law, and an LL.B from the University of Ottawa in Canada.
She is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and Ontario, Canada. She is also designated a Special Legal Consultant within the DC Bar.
She received a B.A. in Political Science and French with Honors from McMaster University in Canada. Annamaria spent her junior year studying abroad at the Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble, France. She is fluent in French, Romanian and Hungarian. Annamaria is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Canadian Bar Associations (CBA), and the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA). She limits her practice U.S. and Canadian Immigration law.