Sheila Snyder

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Snyder Immigration, PLLC is a Washington, DC law firm specializing in US immigration law, with a focus on employment-based and family-based cases.
* Employment-based nonimmigrant classifications
* Employment-based immigrant (“Green Card”) classifications
* Family-based classifications

Snyder Immigration PLLC
209 Douglas St NE
Washington DC 20002
Tel: 202 269-0384
Fax: 202 269-0385
E-mail: info@snyderimmigration.com

Ms. Snyder is an attorney working exclusively in US immigration law. She is a member of the New York Bar, and as such, she is licensed to practice US immigration law throughout the United States.

Ms. Snyder has extensive experience in a wide array of immigrant and nonimmigrant classifications, as well as family-based and naturalization cases. Specifically, her nonimmigrant experience includes the following classifications: E-2 (treaty investors), E-3 (Australian professionals), H-1B (professionals), H-3 (trainees), J-1 (trainees/interns), L-1 (intracompany transferees), O-1 (extraordinary ability workers), Q-1 (cultural trainees), and TN (Canadian and Mexican professionals). Her immigrant classification experience includes EB-1 (Extraordinary Ability, Multinational Manager, Outstanding Researcher), EB-2 (National Interest Waiver and Master’s PERM), EB-3 (PERM), and family sponsorship.

Prior to starting her own firm, she was an Associate Attorney at Egan LLP, affiliated with Ernst & Young, where she worked with the US team in servicing major multinational corporations. At Egan LLP, she assisted with one of the top 20 largest H-1B programs in the US, and worked on numerous different types of petitions and applications, including L-1s and E-2s.

Previously, she was an Associate Attorney at the Law Offices of Becki L. Young, where she assisted small to mid-sized clients in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, IT, scientific research, not-for-profit, education and hospitality. Her hospitality clients included 50 of the most prominent hotels and restaurants in the US.

From 2004 to 2005, Ms. Snyder articled at Waldman & Associates. During this time, her mentor, Lorne Waldman, was counsel for Maher Arar before the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar and counsel for Ms. Medovarski before the Supreme Court of Canada in Medovarski v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration).

Ms. Snyder has done pro bono work for CAIR Coalition and the Tahirih Justice Center. She has successfully represented asylum clients before Immigration Courts in Baltimore and Arlington. In 2008, she served on the faculty of the DC Bar Pro Bono Asylum Training.

Ms. Snyder is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.