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Immigration attorney Jacqueline Lentini
Jacqueline Lentini focuses her practice on immigration law and compliance, handling all matters of employment based immigration case management, including Labor Certification (PERM), H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, L-1 Blanket, E-1/E-2, TN, B-1, J-1 and I-140 (EB-1, EB-2, EB-3). She counsels clients on consular processing and Client Adjustment interviews, and has filed Adjustment of Status applications, including Advance Parole and Employment Authorization.
Previously, Ms. Lentini gained extensive experience in immigration matters with other Chicago area law firms. Prior to that, she was an Immigration Specialist for World Relief, for which she obtained Board of Immigration Appeals accreditation, filed VAWA petitions, Adjustment of Status and Citizenship applications, with continued involvement volunteering at World Relief sponsored Naturalization workshops.
Prior to her law degree, Ms. Lentini was employed by the University of Houston and Purdue University as a F-1 and J-1 student counselor. She possesses over seventeen years of combined experience with immigration issues as both an attorney and foreign student advisor.
Ms. Lentini is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”), the Illinois State Bar Association (“ISBA”), and the Kane County Bar Association’s Immigration Committee. Ms. Lentini currently serves on the AILA Customs and Border Patrol Liaison Committee (2018-2020), and has served on the MidWest Regional Conference Planning Committee (2016-2018), and AILA’s National Long Distance Learning Committee (2014-2016). She is a contributing author to the Illinois Chamber Employee Handbook on an ongoing basis. Previously, she was on the Illinois State Bar Association’s Immigration and International Law Committee from 2002-2003. She writes many immigration related law articles in local bar journals, and speaks publicly to audiences regarding immigration issues in a variety of industries, including universities, entrepreneurs and manufacturing.
Ms. Lentini obtained her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, earned a Master’s in Arts in Italian Studies from Brown University, and a B.A. in International Relations cum laude from Boston University. She is fluent in Italian.
Helping foreign nationals has been a passion of mine from the time I was in college.
When I went to Boston University for my undergraduate studies, many foreign national students befriended me. I’m not sure exactly why we were drawn to each other. Maybe it was my affinity for studying languages. Between high school, college and graduate school, I studied French, Spanish, Italian and Russian.
Whatever brought us together, I enjoyed learning about my friends’ cultures and helping them navigate daily life in the United States.
I also got a chance to understand their experience myself. I spent extended stays in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Padova, Italy to strengthen my Spanish and Italian language skills.
Living abroad gave me two key insights. First, it showed me how hard it could be to live in a country that is not your native home. Something as routine as establishing a bank account or paying a phone bill can be difficult to figure out on your own.
