Immigration Lawyers in Iowa

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Jessica Malott, immigration lawyer in Iowa City, IA

Immigration Lawyer at Malott Law, PLC

Iowa City, IA 19 yrs experience Replies in ~24h Spanish

Jessica Malott is the owner and managing partner of Malott Law, PLC, and practices primarily in immigration. Jessica earned her Juris Doctor, with honors, in 2006 from Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa. During law school, she worked as an intern at the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) and was Editor-in-Chief of the Drake Law Review. Since graduating, Jessica has worked as a law clerk, federal government attorney, law school career advisor, and private practice attorney. In her current practice, she focuses primarily on removal defense in Immigration Court and family-based immigration; however, she also takes an assortment of other cases, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), U Visa, Special Immigrant Juvenile visas and related guardianships, and immigration-related family law cases. Jessica speaks Spanish, and the majority of her clients are native Spanish-speakers. Prior to law school, Jessica attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City and graduated in 2002 with a double major in Spanish and Communication Studies. During her undergraduate education, she studied abroad in Spain, and later worked as an intern at a Washington, DC-based non-profit that primarily served Latino clients who were homeless or diagnosed with a substance abuse and/or mental health condition. Jessica is admitted to practice in Iowa and is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

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Gunda Yohanna Brost, immigration lawyer in Cedar Falls, IA

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Immigration Lawyer at Brost Law Office

Cedar Falls, IA 19 yrs experience Replies in ~24h Dutch, French, German, Latin, Spanish

Gunda J. Brost is a U.S. immigration attorney ("lawyer") from Oldenburg, North Germany. Ms. Brost holds a J.D. from Hamline Mitchell University School of Law (2006) and holds a license to practice law in Iowa (2007). Ms. Brost has represented clients from all over the world in various different immigration-related matters and has a special interest in asylum law, waivers and getting complex cases unstuck. Ms. Brost is fluent in French, German and Spanish.

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Ms. JoAnn L Barten Bigelow

Immigration Lawyer at Attorney

Ames, IA 28 yrs experience Replies in ~24h English

Attorney JoAnn Barten Bigelow has been offering full-service U.S. immigration legal services since 1999. Barten Law Office, P.C. partners with clients to achieve their U.S. immigration goals through creative and workable strategies. Full-time Spanish language services are available. Our office represents individuals and employers with employment based issues, family immigration, consular processing, complex citizenship, and removal cases to name a few. We prepare applications for filing with Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Department of Labor (DOL), and Department of State (DOS) and defend individuals in the Omaha Immigration Court. La abogada JoAnn Barten Bigelow ha estado ofreciendo servicios completos de Inmigracion Legal de EEUU desde 1999. Barten Law Office, PC se asocia con sus clientes para alcanzar sus objetivos de inmigracion en EEUU a travÃÂ©s de estrategias creativas y viables. Ademas de tener disponibilidad de servicios a tiempo completo en espanol, nuestra oficina representa a personas y empresas con problemas relacionados a casos de empleo, inmigracion de familiares, proceso consular, ciudadana y casos de remocion, por nombrar solo algunos. Tambien preparamos aplicaciones para ser sometidas a Servicios de Inmigracion y Ciudadana (CIS), Departamento del Trabajo (DOL) y el Departamento de Estado (DOS) y defendemos a individuos en la Corte de Inmigracion de Omaha.

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Immigration lawyers in Iowa

Immigration in Iowa

Iowa's meatpacking and food-processing plants have reshaped its small cities, drawing immigrant and refugee workers for decades — a history that stretches back to the state's pioneering resettlement of the Tai Dam in the 1970s. Major population centers include Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Sioux City.

Typical work includes employment and H-2A/H-2B cases in meatpacking and agriculture, the insurance and finance sector in Des Moines, family petitions, and asylum and adjustment for resettled refugees.

Immigration services in Iowa

Because so much of Iowa's immigration revolves around agriculture and processing, seasonal-labor and family cases are common — but lawyers here handle every category:

Seasonal & agricultural labor — H-2A and H-2B petitions and employer compliance.
Family-based green cards — petitions for spouses, parents, children, and siblings, plus fiancé(e) visas and adjustment of status.
Asylum & humanitarian relief — affirmative and defensive asylum, U and T visas, VAWA self-petitions, DACA, and TPS.
Employment & work visas — H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN, and PERM-based EB-2 and EB-3 green cards.
Skilled-worker & extraordinary-ability visas — H-1B, O-1, L-1, and EB-1/EB-2 NIW green cards for engineers, researchers, and founders.
Investor & business visas — E-2 treaty investor, EB-5 immigrant investor, and L-1 intracompany transfers.
Deportation & removal defense — bond hearings, cancellation of removal, waivers, and appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Naturalization & citizenship — N-400 applications, civics-test preparation, and citizenship for children.
Students & visitors — F-1, M-1, J-1, and B-1/B-2 visas, plus change- and extension-of-status filings.

Communities served across Iowa

Iowa's processing towns host large Latino, Burmese, Congolese, and Sudanese communities. A good immigration lawyer understands not just the law but the specific documents, languages, and consular realities these communities face. Every profile on Immigrantio shows the lawyer's practice areas, the languages they speak, their years of experience, and verified client reviews — so you can match with someone who genuinely fits your case in Iowa.

How to choose — and book — a Iowa immigration lawyer

Immigration law is federal, so an attorney who focuses on Iowa can represent you whether you already live there or are applying from another state or abroad. A lawyer who regularly practices in Iowa also brings real advantages: familiarity with the USCIS offices and immigration courts that handle Iowa cases. Before you hire, compare a few attorneys, ask each to explain the likely timeline, total cost, and risks of your case up front, and read what past clients say. When you're ready, browse verified immigration lawyers serving Iowa and book a free or paid consultation directly through Immigrantio — getting trustworthy advice early is the surest way to protect your case and your future in the United States.