Senior Associate Attorney in the Family and Business Groups
Victoria Marie Phillips is a Senior Associate Attorney in the Family and Business Groups, where her practice focuses primarily on family-based and employment-based petitions, as well as humanitarian forms of relief and some complicated litigation matters.
As a key member in our Family Team, Victoria handles matters related to adjustment of status, removal of conditions, acquisition of citizenship, and naturalization, amongst other important tasks. As part of our Business Immigration Team, she works on employment-based visas, including H-1B, R-1, J-1, TN, E-2, L-1, and E-3 visas, to name a few. Victoria also has ample experience in consular processing at U.S. Consulates and Embassies worldwide, deportation/removal defense, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions, Special Immigration Juvenile (SIJ) petitions, affirmative and defensive political asylum applications, and abuse, hardship, and good faith marriage waivers. Victoria often handles many of the firm’s complex responses to Notices of Intent to Deny (NOID), Requests for Evidence (RFE), and administrative appeals and motions.
Victoria has a lot of previous experience with immigration law, having served as an Associate Attorney at multiple immigration law firms prior to joining Wildes & Weinberg, as well as a Legal Extern in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the UNHCR, and a Legal Intern at Advocates for Justice, NYS Division of Human Rights, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York (Immigration Department). While in Law School, she was selected as an International Human Rights Fellow, Public Interest Fellow, Post-Graduate Fellow, and Gold Pro Bono Award Recipient.
Victoria is licensed in New York State and Immigration Courts around the country.
JD from Brooklyn Law School
B.A. in Political Science, Legal Studies, and Sociology at the University of Buffalo
Family-based and employment-based petitions, as well as humanitarian forms of relief and some complicated litigation matters.