Christi Hufford Jackson > Laura Devine Attorneys LLC > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Christi Hufford Jackson
Work Department
US immigration
Position
Partner and Head of the US Practice
Career
Christi is a Partner and Head of the US Practice at Laura Devine Immigration in London. She has 19 years of experience representing clients in all areas of business and family-based immigration and has practised in both the UK and US. Christi is acclaimed for the ’thorough and informative’ counsel she delivers to clients on sophisticated US immigration issues.
Her practice areas include advising and preparing all categories of nonimmigrant and immigrant cases, with particular emphasis on L-1 intra-company transfers, E-2 treaty investors, B-1/B-2 visitors, O-1 persons with extraordinary ability, waivers of inadmissibility, EB-1 and family-based green cards. She also routinely assists US nationals with citizenship issues, including passport applications, registrations of birth abroad and renunciation of US citizenship.
Christi is recognised in leading legal directories for her outstanding client service, earning praise for being a ‘dynamic practitioner, unsurpassed in identifying the best solution to a tricky problem’. Christi is noted for being ‘exceptionally knowledgeable, understanding and kind’ and a ‘significant player in immigration law’. She was listed as a Global Leader in Who’s Who Corporate Immigration 2022 and was hailed a ‘level headed, high energy, problem solving partner’ in Legal 500 2023. A member of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association (AILA), Christi is an accomplished speaker at the international level and a frequent author on topics such as non-immigrant visas and consular processing. She served on AILA’s Department of State Liaison committee and is actively involved in AILA’s Rome District Chapter.
Christi has appeared on numerous international news outlets and radio programmes, including CNN and the BBC, discussing US immigration matters.