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J Craig Fong has been practicing law for over thirty years. Although his legal career started with large corporate law firms, handling bank mergers and acquisitions, he gravitated toward community-based and civil rights work. He served as Assistant Director of the immigration project of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Director of the Immigration Project of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, and Director of the Downtown Immigration Advocates, a nonprofit project of the United Methodist Church. In the 1990s, he also worked as an advocate for gay and lesbian civil rights as the Regional Director of the national civil rights organization Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund.
J has had his own immigration law practice in Southern California since 1996. J’s practice is devoted exclusively to immigration and nationality issues, focusing primarily on family-related cases, entry-exit issues, treaty investor and trader visas, intra-company transferees, and hardship and national interest waivers. He also pioneered the counseling and representing of same-sex and non-traditional multi-national families.
Because so many immigration attorneys practice solo, J Craig Fong and Romben Aquino wanted to create a law firm in which two attorneys can consult and advise, especially for difficult or unusual cases. Immigration and nationality law has a become far too complex for one attorney to know it all. The Fong & Aquino philosophy of “two heads are better than one” allows us to strategize and create solutions for problematic cases.
J has also taught numerous Continuing Legal Education seminars, including some sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Law Society of British Columbia, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
He is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Immigration Law
- Asylum, Citizenship, Deportation Defense, Family Visas, Green Cards, Immigration Appeals, Investment Visas, Marriage & Fiancé(e) Visas, Student Visas, Visitor Visas, Work Visas
- Immigrant Visas
- Nonimmigrant Visas
- Visa Waiver Issues
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- Skype
- California
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- English
- French
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Partner
- Fong & Aquino
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- Law Offices of J Craig Fong
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- Partner
- Fong & Chun, LLP
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- Attorney
- Law Offices of J Craig Fong
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- Attorney
- Law Offices of J Craig Fong
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- Board Chair
- Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
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- Assistant Director, Immigration Project
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
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- Director, Immigration Project
- Asian Pacific American Legal Center
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- Associate Attorney
- Chapman and Cutler
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- Associate Attorney
- Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro
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- Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Facultad de Filología
- Cert. (1984)
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- University of Pennsylvania Law School
- J.D.
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- Yale University
- B.A.
- Honors: RJH Kiphuth Scholar, 1974-1977; Yale-Carnegie Foreign Exchange Program, 1976-1976; Sumitomo Scholar. 1977
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- Super Lawyer
- Southern California Super Lawyers
- Community Leadership Award
- Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
- Avvo 10.0
- Avvo
- California State Bar # 104426
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- Federal Bar Association
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- American Immigration Lawyers Association
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- Los Angeles County Bar Association
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- Other Nonimmigrant Visas.
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Investors & Traders: Nonimmigrant and Immigrant Visas (E-1/E-2 & EB-5).
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Non-Immigrant Visas: E Treaty Trader / Investor Visas.
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Building Alliances: The Case of the Japanese American Citizens League Endorsement of Same-Sex Marriage
- Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies that Work. Ed. James T. Sears & Walter L. Williams, Columbia University Press
- Immigrants, HIV/AIDS: Do You Remember the Time?, US Conference on AIDS - Annual Conference
- 2007
- Asylum for Gay Men and Lesbians, FBA Annual Immigration Conference
- 2011
- Marriage-Based Immigration & LGBT Couples, Representing LGBT Immigrants
- 2011
- Best Practices for Working with LGBT Clients and for Representing before the Government, Representing LGBT Immigrants
- 2011
- Non-Working Visas, LACBA Immigration Law Course
- 2017
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