Mr. Piscopo is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as Certified Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law. He also was named to Southern California Super Lawyers® (Immigration), by a panel of his peers. He has more than 23 years of immigration experience and specialized in complex and difficult cases.
Mr. Piscopo writes extensively on immigration matters, and his articles have appeared in leading Filipino-American and Hispanic publications. He has also been interviewed on radio and television and in newspapers discussing immigration issues and problems facing immigrants in the United States and given numerous seminars on immigration laws. Some of the firms’ cases have been chronicled on CNN and Telemundo, and in the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Piscopo is also past Chairman of the Orange County Bar Association’s Immigration Section and American Immigration Lawyers Association (Southern California Chapter) Liaison Officer to the USCIS-Santa Ana Office.
He is admitted to the California, New York and Federal Bar Associations. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and the Immigration Law sections of the Federal, Orange County and Los Angeles County Bar Associations
Mr. Piscopo and his firm handle a wide variety of immigration matters, including family-based and employment-based petitions, adjustment of status, naturalization, citizenship and waiver applications, and consular processing. He appears extensively before the Executive Office of Immigration Review (Immigration Court), the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Administrative Appeals Office. Mr. Piscopo regularly files and has successfully argued before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit regarding removal and deportation cases. Mr. Piscopo has personally represented thousands of individuals in immigration matters before the federal and immigration court and at USCIS interviews.