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Gianna Borroto

Gianna Borroto is a Senior Attorney with over fifteen years of experience successfully representing clients in complex matters before the immigration courts, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Board of Immigration Appeals, federal courts, and U.S. consulates worldwide. She specializes in humanitarian and international protection issues, including asylum, the removal of INTERPOL Red Notices, removal defense, unaccompanied children’s cases, family-based petitions, and T and U visas.

 

Gianna also advises business professionals and executives on navigating complex nonimmigrant visa matters and global mobility issues. Her experience navigating sophisticated cross-border immigration issues enables her to develop strategic solutions tailored to clients’ business and professional goals.

 

Prior to joining Grossman Young & Hammond, Gianna worked as a litigator with the American Immigration Council and the National Immigrant Justice Center, where she focused on impact litigation and class action lawsuits defending the rights of asylum seekers, immigrant youth, and separated families. Having litigated both in immigration court and before the federal courts, Gianna is skilled at representing clients in all stages of their immigration cases.

 

Gianna is fluent in English and Spanish.

 

 

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Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School
  • B.S., University of Florida

Admissions/Memberships

  • State Bar of Illinois
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)

Selected Representative Matters

  • Asylum Success: Secured a grant of asylum from USCIS for a prominent Venezuelan human rights advocate and international human rights attorney.
  • Family-Based Adjustment: Represented a Bolivian indigenous artist and musician in successfully obtaining spousal adjustment of status.
  • L-1A Visa Approvals: Secured complex L-1A intracompany transferee visas for Guatemalan corporate executives.
  • Deletion of Persecutory Interpol Red Notice: Successfully challenged and obtained deletion of politically motivated Red Notices issued against:

    • A Sikh activist targeted by India.
    • A political dissident targeted by El Salvador.
    • A former high-level government official from the Middle East.
  • Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA): Secured a $30,000 settlement in an FTCA case on behalf of a mother and her U.S. citizen infant expelled under Title 42.

Past Presentations / Media Mentions

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