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Senior Counsel Elaine H. Witty, Senior Counsel joined Siskind Susser, PC following a distinguished career in government with the City of New York. Ms. Witty served as the Executive Director of the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Affairs at the Human Resources Administration under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. In that capacity, Ms. Witty worked as an internal advocate for immigrants’ eligibility for public benefits with an emphasis on serving battered immigrant women and children. She worked collaboratively with City attorneys and immigrant advocates to strengthen language access services for limited English proficient individuals seeking vital health and human services from City agencies. Ms. Witty served as Director of Legal Affairs for Citizenship New York City, a mayoral citizenship initiative, developed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in response to anti-immigrant provisions of Welfare Reform Law. During her tenure at Citizenship New York City, over 42,000 immigrants were assisted with applications for U.S. citizenship. Ms. Witty began her career in City government as Deputy Counsel to City Councilman Noach Dear (D-Brooklyn). Ms. Witty is an active member of the Bar. She is past Chapter Chair of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (2005-2006), which boasts a membership of over 1,200 immigration attorneys. Ms. Witty served on the City Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Committee and the New York State Bar Association, Committee on Women in the Law. She is the recipient of the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Pro Bono Award in recognition of her tireless work on behalf of low-income Brooklynites. Ms. Witty is a sought after speaker and has taught immigration law seminars at New York Law School, City University of New York, City Bar Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Ms. Witty is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women. She is admitted to practice in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Tennessee. Ms. Witty is admitted to the Federal Courts: the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Western District of Tennessee, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and, the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Witty’s practice areas include employment based immigration for Fortune 100 companies, litigation and deportation defense, family based immigration with a specialty in waivers of inadmissibility, naturalization and derivative citizenship, and religious worker cases. She can be reached via e-mail at ewitty@visalaw.com.
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