Ariadna Valderrama
Immigration lawyer and founder
Most clients arrive because a cousin or a neighbor gave them my number.
I opened this office to work the way I wished my own family's lawyer had: one person to call, a plan on paper and no surprises about fees or dates.
I work in English and Spanish. I take family green cards, removal defense and asylum, and I send other kinds of cases to lawyers who handle them every day. Selam Worku runs the schedule and the document checklists, and speaks English and Amharic.
My license record
Bar admissions
Maryland
Admitted 2015
District of Columbia
Admitted 2017
Courts
U.S. immigration courts
Baltimore and Sterling
Board of Immigration Appeals
Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Admitted 2018
Education
Juris Doctor
2014
Bachelor of Arts
2011
Languages
English
Fluent
Spanish
Fluent: consultations and documents
How the office runs
Three rules I hold myself to
You hear from me
When something is filed, scheduled or decided, you get a message that day.
Costs on paper
My fee and the government's filing fees are listed before you pay either one.
I refer out
If a case needs someone else, I say so in the first meeting and name who.
Come meet me in Silver Spring
Meetings are in the office, by phone or by video, in English or in Spanish.