Law Office of Joshua E. Bardavid, Esq.

an immigration practice for your needs




Profile



The Law Office of Joshua Bardavid is a full service immigration practice. We provide affordable and effective representation to individuals and businesses, including visa processing, permanent resident applications, citizenship and naturalization, asylum applications, deportation defense, appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and federal circuit courts, and habeas corpus petitions.


Meet the Attorneys



Joshua Bardavid, the principal attorney, has years of experience in immigration practice. He has successfully litigated hundreds of immigration cases, and has been lead counsel in several precedent setting appeals. Prior to working as an immigration attorney, he worked as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Click HERE to read some of our office's past cases.

Joshua was editor-in-chief of New York International Law Review and graduated cum laude from St. John's University School of Law. He has lived in Washington D.C., West Africa, and the Middle East. He currently lives in New York City.

Joshua is admitted to practice in the following courts:

New York State Court
Immigration Court (EOIR)
Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
First Circuit Court of Appeals
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

NON-ATTORNEY STAFF:

Zachary Slapsys has been involved in immigration work since 2001. He is a May 2006 graduate of the City University of New York School of Law (CUNY) who passed the July 2006 New York State Bar Examination. He is currently awaiting admission to New York's Second Department.

While at CUNY Zachary was a member of the New York City Law Review, where he served both a staff member and executive articles editor. In the fall of 2006, Zachary's law review article was published in the New York City Law Review Journal, titled The Chinese Dilemma: Practical Solutions to Irresponsible Immigration Reform and the Ensuing Circuit Court Traffic Jam , 9 N.Y. City L. Rev. 183.
See a copy of this piece HERE.

During the 2005-06 academic year, Zachary was a member of CUNY's nationally recognized Immigrant & Refugee Rights Clinic, where he served as a student lawyer for Main Street Legal Services. Here, Zachary was part of a legal team which prepared and filed two separate discrimination lawsuits in federal court against well known New York City eateries as part of a campaign to aid low-wage and immigrant workers.


Some Unrelated Photography



Joshua has taken many photographs of his travels.
To see a sampling of some, please visit this website