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Elaine Martin has specialized in immigration law since 1997.

She worked with the world’s largest corporate immigration law firms for more than eight years, advising businesses of all sizes, ranging from multinational Fortune 500 corporations to start-up ventures and sole proprietorships. In addition, she was responsible for all individual client casework, providing services in family-based immigration petitions.

Elaine has spoken at a number of immigration seminars around the United States and has been quoted by reporters in journal articles about immigration. She also provides valuable immigration training to groups at her corporate clients’ sites.

Elaine received her law degree from University College Dublin. She is admitted to practice in the State of Texas (1995) and in Ireland (1986). She is licensed to practice in all Texas courts, the Federal District for the Northern District of Texas and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Elaine brings valuable personal experience and passion to her work as an immigration lawyer - she immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1994. Before this, Elaine practiced law in Europe for eight years, including working for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium and with ABN-AMRO Bank.

Ms. Maria McIntyre was born near Columbus, Ohio in 1975. Her mother is of Vietnamese descent and immigrated to the United States in the late 1960s. Ms. McIntyre has resided in the Dallas- Fort Worth area since childhood. She graduated with honors from Texas Christian University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Political Science. In 2002, Ms. McIntyre earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law.

Ms. McIntyre realized her passion for U.S. immigration law at an early age. Ms. McIntyre observed the challenges her mother faced as her mother began immigrating her siblings from Vietnam to the United States in the early 1980s. Ms. McIntyre began practicing immigration law in 2003, when she became a staff attorney for a local non-profit organization that focused on providing low-cost and effective legal representation to undocumented immigrants. Ms. McIntyre moved into private practice in May 2004 when she joined a full-service immigration firm in Dallas, Texas. Ms. McIntyre became a senior associate of this firm in 2005 and remained in this position until 2008. Ms. McIntyre has also served as an expert witness on the practice of immigration law for the State of Texas.

Ms. McIntyre has extensive experience in many facets of U.S. immigration law. Her practice initially focused on H-2A Agricultural and H-2B Seasonal Visas. Ms. McIntyreâs expertise quickly expanded to include deportation defense (including bond redetermination hearings, cancellation of removal, asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture), family-based immigration (including adjustment of status, conditional residence, and immigrant visas), citizenship and naturalization, relief under the Violence Against Womenâs Act (VAWA), nonimmigrant visas, humanitarian relief attained from Citizenship and Immigration Services (C.I.S.) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.), and federal court representation.

Ms. McIntyre is admitted to practice in Texas and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Tarrant County Bar Association and Dallas Bar Association.

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Nayar & McIntyre, LLP is a full-service immigration law firm located in the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex dedicated to providing competent, compassionate and affordable legal representation to immigrants and their families. Our lawyers have over 13 years of combined experience in the field of immigration law and have represented thousands of individuals before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and the Immigration Court.

For many immigrants, the U.S. immigration experience is daunting, overwhelming, and often, distressing. Our goal is to relieve that burden and navigate the complicated immigration maze on our clients’ behalf to protect their rights and secure their legal immigration status in the United States.

Nayar & McIntyre, LLP offers a range of legal services to immigrants and their families, including:

Family sponsored immigration including Immigrant Visa Petitions, Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Removal of Conditional Residency, Fiancée Petitions (K-1), K-3 and K-4 Visas, and V Visas;

Deportation and Removal Defense before the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals, including applications for cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, 212(c), asylum, relief under the Convention Against Torture, TPS de novo relief, voluntary departure, termination of proceedings, waivers for crimes, fraud and unlawful presence, and NACARA;

Bond hearings;

Naturalization and citizenship, including N-648 disability waivers and N-336 appeals;

Asylum;

Relief for Victims of Crime, I-360 self-petitions and U visas;

Waivers, including I-601 waivers for criminal activity, fraud, health issues and unlawful presence, I-212 waivers for prior deportations, and nonimmigrant visa waivers;

Nonimmigrant Visas, including B1-B2 (visitors), F-1 (students), H1-B (professional workers), P (performers), O (individuals of extraordinary ability), and R (religious workers);

Change and Extension of Status;

NACARA;

Humanitarian Parole;

Temporary Protected Status;

Deferred Inspection Representation.

Attorney Martin Valko of Dallas immigration law firm of Chavez & Valko, LLP, represents individuals and families from around the world, private and publicly traded (also Fortune 100) companies in employment-based immigration, several international Olympic and professional athletes, car racers, artists, and musicians in various non-immigrant and immigrant matters. He also secures visas to foreign countries.

Martin Valko has a first hand knowledge about the U.S. immigration laws as he has been through the entire process – from being a high-school exchange student, college student to an H-1B worker to his permanent residency and dual citizenship. Martin's clients greatly appreciate his in-depth understanding of the complex immigration process. Among others, he is experienced in the areas of labor certifications (PERM), EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 immigrant visas, H-1B specialty occupation and H-2 visas, L-1A/B visas for intracompany transferees, E treaty investor and trader visas, F and J visas for foreign and exchange students, O and P visas for extraordinary ability aliens, athletes and performers. He also assists his clients with securing I-212 and I-601 waivers of inadmissibility, and represents clients in removal proceedings, and on appeal. Martin Valko has been a speaker for educational and business seminars on various immigration law topics.

Born in Levo?a, Slovakia, Martin Valko spent his childhood traveling and living in several countries due to his father’s career as a diplomat and Ambassador for Slovak Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). He moved to the United States in 1991 to complete his high school studies, where he also obtained his college and law degrees.

Martin Valko is married to a 5-time Olympian (2-time Olympic silver medalist, World and European Champion) swimmer Martina Moravcova, and they reside in Dallas, Texas. Martin is fluent in Slovak, Czech, and English, and is conversant in Russian.