About us
Boris Palant is a graduate of the Buffalo School of Law, Class of 1983. Most of his 40 years career has been dedicated to practicing immigration and international Law. During this time he has represented thousands of clients from all over the world, specializing in immigrant and non-immigrant visa petitions for aliens of extraordinary and exceptional ability and asylum law. Among his clients are world-renowned scientists, performers, and artists, olympic champions in a range of sports disciplines, their coaches, business leaders, engineers, and other professionals whose accomplishments rise to the extraordinary or exceptional level.
Among his asylum clients are lawyers and human right leaders who faced persecution in their countries on account of their political opinion or association with a particular social group.... read moreBoris Palant
Boris Palant has been featured in numerous TV and radio programs in the United States and Russia, speaking on immigration and constitutional law. He has authored two books – Dura Lex, which is a collection of stories based on actual cases he handled and The Bill of Rights – a popular treatise on the history of the Bill of Rights and analysis of the US Supreme Court decisions pertaining to each of the first ten Amendments comprising the Bill of Rights. He has given lectures to foreign lawyers on various legal topics.
Boris holds an M.A. Degree in Linguistics from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo (1978), and he graduated with honors from Kharkiv State University (Ukraine) in 1974, having majored in English and French.
Since 2011 he has a title “Super Lawyer” awarded by Reuters on the basis of peer recognition.
Irina Lust handles a variety of employment-based and family-based immigration matters.
She counsels and represents employers, professionals, managers, executives, international entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary/exceptional ability and immigrant investors in a wide range of employment permanent residence applications (EB-1A, EB-2 National Interest Waiver, EB-5, PERM, I-140) and non-immigrant visa matters (H-1B, L-1, E-1, E-2, O-1, P-1, TN for Canadian and Mexican nationals).
Irina also represents clients in family-based petitions, including consular processing and waivers, obtaining legal permanent residency through marriage to the United States citizen, and fiancée/fiancé (K-1) applications.... read moreIrina Lust
She has successfully represented same-sex marriage clients and transgender clients. Irina also prepares and represents couples in marriage fraud interviews.
Over the course of her practice, Irina has represented clients from virtually every U.S. State as well as clients from all former Soviet Union countries, Poland, Bulgaria, Albania, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Greece, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ireland, Iran, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Guyana, Jordan, Thailand, Czech Republic, Hungary, England, France, Ireland, Italy, China, Netherlands, Mongolia, Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Ghana.
Irina provides face-to-face consultations to potential clients in her two offices in New York (Manhattan and Brooklyn) and Fairfield County, Connecticut. She is also available for consultation via phone, Skype, WhatsApp, and Viber.
In 2002 Irina obtained an undergraduate degree in business economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta and graduated with honors. In 2007, she earned her Juris Doctor degree at the New York Law School. Irina is currently admitted to practice law in the states of New York and Connecticut, the United States District Courts for the Southern & Eastern Districts of New York, Connecticut District Court, and the United States Supreme Court. Irina can practice immigration law in any state of the U.S. as her practice is limited to U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law.
In 2018 and 2019, Irina has been selected as Rising Stars in Business Immigration by Super Lawyers awarded by Reuters based on peer recognition.
Irina is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Having immigrated to the United States from Siberia, Irina is a native Russian speaker. Irina is fully dedicated to her clients and is passionate about her practice. Irina places emphasis on personalized service and zealously and thoroughly represents her clients.
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Our philosophy
With their combined 50 years of experience, Boris Palant and Irina Last have always strived to secure the best and most effective route to assist you and your relatives with the immigration process to the US. Our fair and honest assessment will help evaluate your chances of becoming a permanent resident (green card holder), secure protection from deportation or obtaining a visa.
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Westport, CT 06880
WhatsApp: +1 (203) 451-3240