About Melissa Aaron-Cooper

Attorney Melissa Aaron-Cooper, specializes in 601-A provisional waivers of unlawful presence and has extensive experience handling removal defense matters such as Bond Hearings, Asylum, Withholding of Removal, Cancellation of Removal, Requests for Prosecutorial Discretion, and Motions to Reopen and Terminate. She also has a passion for representing women/men who are victims of domestic violence in their applications for VAWA Self Petitions and U-Nonimmigrant Visas for victims of crime. Ms. Aaron-Cooper not only represents clients before US Immigration Courts and the Board of immigration Appeals (BIA), but she also represents clients before USCIS in filing and advocating affirmative asylum/TVPRA applications, Deferred Action Requests (Humanitarian and DACA), family based immigration petitions (such as adjustments of status, removal of green card conditions, K-1 fiancé petitions, naturalization, refugee/asylee relative petitions and waivers of inadmissibility), requesting stays of removal before ICE, and consular processing before the Department of State. Ms. Aaron-Cooper also has extensive experience with employment based immigration matters and handles H-1B visas, PERM Labor Certifications, EB1, EB2 and EB3 petitions as well as L-1 visas for employees of multinational companies.

Prior to joining Solow, Hartnett and Galvan, Ms. Aaron-Cooper was a senior immigration associate at two different immigration law firms in Northern New Jersey, where she oversaw her firm’s asylum caseload in addition to handling complex USCIS matters; and where she led a deportation defense team.