Dana A. DiRaimondo
PARTNER
Phone: +1 (718) 215-0504
Email: dana@ds-immigration.com
Dana practices exclusively in the fields of corporate, investor and family-based immigration law, representing large and small clients within a variety of industries. With a focus on analyzing and providing guidance on nonimmigrant and immigrant visa strategies to meet each client's specific needs, she has successfully assisted clients in obtaining H-1B, L-1, O-1, P-1, E-1/E-2, E-3, TN, B-1 and J-1, visas, as well as PERM and EB-1 filings. Prior to founding D&S, Dana gained significant experience with a large global corporate immigration firm representing Fortune 500 companies, as well as start-up, small, and medium-sized organizations on a wide variety of employment-based and family-based immigration matters. She has experience servicing a large volume of clients across diverse industries, including finance, technology, engineering, architecture, and fashion, as well as hospitals and universities. Dana also has extensive experience advising on complex matters, including working with entrepreneurs to obtain E-1 and E-2 visas for start-up enterprises and advising foreign nationals regarding the immigration consequences of criminal conduct and successfully applying for nonimmigrant and immigrant waivers of inadmissibility.
Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Awards
Dana has been selected for inclusion in the New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars each year from 2014 through 2023. Only 2.5 percent of lawyers are selected for this distinction.
Dana was named one of the Top 20 Immigration lawyers in Brooklyn by Expertise.com in 2016
Publications and Presentations
Featured, “How to leave Big Law and start your own legal practice, according to 5 lawyers who made the leap,“ Business Insider (April 2021)
Speaker, Immigration Law for International Entrepreneurs, Interpreneurship Seminar Series, The New School (February 2019)
Panelist, Cap-subject H-1B Visa: Significant Influence on Workers, Wages and Employment Process, The Knowledge Group (December 2016)
Speaker, Immigration Law for International Entrepreneurs, Interpreneurship Seminar Series, The New School (April 2016)
Co-Author, "How to Go Solo From Big Law," The Lawyerist (February 2016, republished January 2020)
Guest Speaker, Taking Your Project from Idea to Success, Interpreneurship Seminar Series, The New School (April 2015)
Panelist, Entrepreneurship & Business Immigration Law, Interpreneurship Seminar Series, The New School (March 2015)
Press and Interviews
So You Want to Start a Law Firm (Part 1), July 22, 2015, on medium.com
From the Ground Up: Building a Business in Immigration Law, April 7, 2017 on b2b.dnb.con
Coming to America, on digital.superlawyers.com
Oscar For Business - Member Profile, hioscar.com
Pro Bono
Attorney Mentor for the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s National Citizenship Day
Assisted clients in obtaining asylum based on a well-founded fear of persecution
Bar Admission
New York
New Jersey (inactive)
Education
St. John's University, School of Law, J.D.
Brooklyn College, B.A., Cum Laude
