Jacqueline Villalba

Jacqueline Villalba

Partner

Jacqueline Villalba is a Board-Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. She has extensive experience in the areas of business and family-based immigration. She represents clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”)with regard to non-immigrant visa petitions; extraordinary ability, national interest waiver, and professional worker petitions; labor certifications; family-based immigrant visa petitions; and applications for naturalization. Jacqueline also practices before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, representing clients in removal proceedings with regard to asylum requests, applications to adjust status to permanent residence, cancellation of removal, bond hearings, and other forms of relief.

Jacqueline served as Chair of The Florida Bar International Law Section for the 2022-2023 term. She is a member of the International Law Section’s Executive Council and previously served Chair of the Section’s Women in International Law and Foreign Legal Consultant Committees. She has also served on the Board of Directors of AILA South Florida. Additionally, she has served as Chair and Co-Chair of AILA South Florida’s Luncheons Committees, Co-Chair of the DMV Committee, and Chair and Co-Chair of the CLE Committee. Jacqueline has lectured at legal seminars on a variety of business and family-based immigration issues. In 2009, and from 2018 – 2021, she was selected as a Florida Rising Star. This peer designation is awarded only to a select number of pf accomplished attorneys in each state. She was also included in the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for her high caliber work in Immigration Law, ranking among the top 5 percent of attorneys nationwide, as determined purely by her peers.

Jacqueline received her B.B.A. from the University of Miami and her J.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in the State of Florida as well as in the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is also fluent in Spanish.

Services
  • Representation of foreign nationals and U.S. and foreign based multinational corporations with regard to U.S. immigration and nationality law matters.
  • Investor visas
  • Employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas
  • Green Card Applications
  • Visas and green cards for aliens of extraordinary ability
Education
  • Law: St. Thomas University School of Law, J.D.
  • Undergraduate: University of Miami, B.B.A.
Associations:
  • The Florida Bar
Languages
  • Fluent in Spanish