Priscilla J. Cortez
Priscilla Cortez has devoted her practice exclusively to immigration, primarily business immigration matters, for more than 15 years. Over the course of her career, Ms. Cortez has represented both large and smaller employers engaged in the high technology, automobile, freight forwarding, academia, arts and numerous other fields, in successfully obtaining both nonimmigrant (temporary) work visas and immigrant (permanent residence) visas for their highly skilled employees.
Ms. Cortez graduated from University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and is admitted to the State Bar of California. She is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
After spending many years in a big-firm environment, with Graham & James LLP and subsequently Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., she relocated to the beautiful Sierra foothills and has opened her own practice.