Attorneys

Christine M. Sarapu specializes in the field of immigration and nationality law, incluidng deportation and removal defense, family and employment-based adjustment of status, NACARA, asylum, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), naturalization, consular process, PERM, VAWA, and non-immigrant visas (H1B, H2B, Religious Workers, P/O visas, E-1/E-2 visas, L visas, and TN visas).  Ms. Sarapu's practice is limited to Immigration and Nationality Law. 
 
 Ms. Sarapu is a graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) Law School and is admitted to the California State Bar.  While in law school, Ms. Sarapu was involved in the Immigration Clinic and Domestic Violence Clinic at USC Law School, and clerked for the Immigrants' Rights Project (IRP) at Public Counsel Law Center in Los Angeles, California and at the Immigration Assistance Project in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  She also volunteered her time to various clinics including the Guardianship Clinic and Teen Legal Clinic through Public Counsel Law Center, and the Post-Conviction Clinic at USC Law School where she represented Mariel Cubans in their parole hearings at the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary in Lompoc, California. 
 
Ms. Sarapu graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Latin American Studies and worked on her M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
 
Prior to founding the Law Office of Christine M. Sarapu, Ms. Sarapu worked for small immigration firms in Fairfax, Virginia and Los Angeles, California where she successfully represented clients in many aspects of immigraiton law. 
 
Ms. Sarapu was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  She has lived in Japan, and has studied in Argentina, Chile, and Italy.  She has travelled extensively throughout the world, including Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia.  Ms. Sarapu is fluent in both English and Spanish.