Jeanne Santos is an attorney in the Memphis office of Siskind Susser, where she practices exclusively immigration and nationality law, representing corporate, small business, and individual clients in employment-, family-, and humanitarian-based matters. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Jeanne’s expertise includes the following areas of immigration law:
Employment-based immigration:
- O-1 visas for foreign nationals of extraordinary ability
- H-1B visas for specialty occupation professionals
- L-1 visas for multinational, intra-company transferees
- E-1 & E-2 Treaty Trade and Treaty Investor visas
- TN visas for NAFTA/USMCA professionals
- R-1 visas for religious workers
- EB-1A petitions for foreign nationals of extraordinary ability
- EB-1B petitions for outstanding professors and researchers
- EB-1C petitions for multinational managers or executives
- EB-2 National Interest Waivers (NIW)
- PERM labor certifications
Family-based, humanitarian, and other immigration matters:
- Adjustment of Status
- Consular Processing
- Hardship and Fraud Waivers
- Humanitarian Parole
- Military Parole-in-Place
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Naturalization
Jeanne has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in Hispanic literature from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She earned her Juris Doctor (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey’s School of Law. While in law school, she was the Senior Articles Editor for the Law Review and earned the Best Student Note Award, which was published in Volume 50 of The University of Memphis Law Review. She also earned the Best Brief and Best Memorandum Awards in her Legal Methods classes. She was a member of the Housing Adjudication Clinic and volunteered to interpret and translate for the Law School’s Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic. Jeanne was awarded the CALI award for excellence in her work in several classes, including Immigration Law, Education and Civil Rights, Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure, and Legal Methods.
Jeanne is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Memphis Bar Association, and is licensed to practice law in Tennessee.