Nadeen Aljijakli is a partner at Aljijakli, Kosseff & Prendergast, LLC, where she practices exclusively in the area of immigration law with a focus on family-based immigration, asylum, and deportation defense.
Nadeen is a recognized expert for Syrian asylum claims and was featured in a Huffington Post article, “Top Ten List: Muslims Who Save Lives”, as well as the Washington Post, Forbes, Al Jazeera, and Brian Lehrer’s show on CUNY TV. Nadeen developed her expertise in immigration law working with nationally recognized lawyers at leading law firms in the country, including Duane Morris’ Immigration Practice Group and Maggio & Kattar, PC, in Washington, DC, as well as Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP, in New York. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from New York University; and her law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 2005. During law school, she was a finalist in a national family law moot court competition; she was selected as a Sparer Public Interest Law Fellow; and she interned with the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Nadeen is active in AILA, where she recently served as Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Interest Group (MEIG). She received the 2016 Pro Bono Champion Award by the AILA Ohio Chapter. She is also a co-founder of the NY Chapter of the Network of Arab-American Professionals, a volunteer-based organization dedicated to strengthening the Arab-American community, and serves on the organization’s Advisory Board. Nadeen is a native Arabic speaker.
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