The Haynes Immigration Law Firm

Our Team

Amy R. Novick
Radlyn Mendoza

Amy R. Novick (email)

Amy Novick is Of Counsel to The Haynes Immigration Law Firm, where she focuses her practice on obtaining visas for highly skilled professionals, waivers of the two-year home residency requirement, issues of concern to G-4 international workers, investors, foreign adoptions, naturalization and citizenship, waivers of inadmissibility, and family-based immigration matters. Amy also specializes in complex immigration problems that relate to public policy and immigration agency interpretations of law. Before joining The Haynes Immigration Law Firm, Amy practiced at Maggio & Kattar as a Senior Attorney and Shareholder.

Amy also has a number Of Counsel and affiliated relationships with other law firms, including a Strategic Alliance with St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson LLP, a telecommunications boutique law firm located in Washington, DC.

Amy has been involved with immigration and nationality law and policy for more than 20 years. She also served as Deputy Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) where she directed the Association's extensive immigration education program, including publishing, legal education conferences, and marketing. Amy has significant experience in organizational management and strategic planning.

Named to International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers.

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia 1984.
Pennsylvania 1984.

Education (United States and Internationally)

1984 Antioch School of Law, J.D. (Special emphasis on international refugee law) and jurisprudence; completed L.L.M.-level internship and research at the UNHCR in Geneva, Switzerland.
1978 Clark University B.A. (government with special emphasis on international relations; Completed year abroad at London School of Economics-affiliated program and international relations curriculum at the University of Haifa.

Honors

Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UDC Law School, Special Recognition (2007).
AILA Special Commendation for Leadership and Service (2001, 2004).
National Immigration Project Special Recognition Award. (2004).
AILA Presidential Commendation for Outstanding Service (1999).
AILA Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Writing Competition Award (1984).
Editor, Antioch Law Review (1983-84).

Past Positions

Maggio & Kattar, P.C. (1/06 to 10/08).
Shareholder and Partner.
- Represent individuals before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Department of State; employment-based immigration, J waivers, investors, inadmissibility issues, family-based immigration, adoption, and immigration problems that related to public policy and immigration agency interpretation of law; manage law firm’s website, electronic newsletter, and marketing activities.
Office of the Special Arbiter, Jerry M., Washington, DC (6/05-12/05).
Consulting Attorney.
- Legal and fact-based research related to the development of a plan to implement the Jerry M. (juvenile justice class action) consent decree and court orders; prepare memoranda on qualitative and quantitative compliance standards and on standards related to termination and dismissal in institutional reform litigation; provided other litigation mediation support.
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Washington, DC (2/85-6/04).
Acting Executive Director (9/96-12/96).
Deputy Director, Programs (9/99-6/04).
Senior Director, Education (9/96-9/99).
Associate Director (2/85-9/96).

Professional Activities

Executive Director, Immigrants' List (2009-present).
Board of Trustees, American Immigration Law Foundation (2006-present).
Founding Member, Board of Directors, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Center for Immigration Law and Practice (2004-07).

Recent Presentations

DC Bar CLE on Immigration Law (2008, 2009, 2010).
AILA Annual Conference on Immigration Law (2009, 2010).
AILA Texas Chapter Conference: Alternatives to Labor Certification: Extraordinary Ability / National Interest Waivers (2010).
Independent Education Consultants Association (2009).
AILA Midyear Conference on Immigration Law (2009).
AILA Teleconference on 0-1 Visas for Business (2009).
Conference on Immigration Policies and Development (2008, 2009).

Publications

Update author, Chapter 22, J Visas, Immigration and Law Practice (Thompson/West) (forthcoming).
Editor, AILA Midyear Conference Handbook (2009).
Author, with Michael Maggio, “Visas for Foreign Talent and Their Agencies.”
Executive Editor, Immigration Law Today (AILA).
Managing Editor, Immigration and National Law Handbook (AILA).
Managing Editor, The Visa Processing Guide (AILA).
Managing Editor, U.S. Consular Posts Handbook (AILA).
Executive Editor, Selected Fundamentals of Immigration Law and Practice (AILA).
Managing Editor, AILA’s Family Immigration Law Handbook (AILA).
Managing Editor, Immigration Option for Academics and Researcher (AILA).

Radlyn Mendoza

Radlyn Mendoza is a partner in the Virginia Beach based law firm, Gardner & Mendoza, P.C. http://gardnerandmendoza.com.

Ms. Mendoza is a native Virginian and the daughter of Filipino immigrants. She graduated from Old Dominion University in 1994, cum laude, and received her Law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1998. During her third year of law school, Ms. Mendoza completed an internship with U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan in Newark, New Jersey. She was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1998 and in 1999 was admitted to the Bar of the U.S.

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The Haynes Immigration Law Firm

In 2000, Ms. Mendoza spent three months in Salamanca, Spain, enrolled in an intensive Spanish language course to better serve her Spanish-speaking clientele.

She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is the local AILA Brown Bag Lunch Coordinator for Hampton Roads and the Peninsula, and is the local AILA liaison with the Norfolk United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. In 2002, Governor Mark Warner appointed Ms. Mendoza to the Special Advisory Committee on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits.

Ms. Mendoza's practice focuses exclusively on immigration law. She has shared her immigration expertise with other attorneys and local judges as a speaker for several Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses sponsored by the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, and the Virginia Beach Bar Association. Ms. Mendoza has also provided attorney training to the Norfolk Public Defenders' Office on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Ms. Mendoza recently conducted a webinar for Liberty Tax’s ‘Experts Speaking Expertly’ series on immigration and taxation.

She has appeared as a guest speaker for the League of Women Voters’ unit meetings and was the guest speaker at the league’s Hampton Roads’ chapter’s 2008 annual meeting.

Ms. Mendoza has coordinated for two years in a row the Hampton Road area's Citizenship Day held at St. Gregory's Catholic Church. She and other local immigration attorneys, paralegals and USCIS volunteers assisted locals in completing Naturalization applications. It was a free event.