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Attorney Paul V. Balducci
After receiving his law degree from Georgia State University College of Law, Mr. Balducci worked as a foreign legal consultant with Miranda, Estavillo y Hernandez, a law firm located in Mexico, D.F. specializing in representing foreign companies doing business in Mexico. For the last ten years his law practice has focused on international and immigration law, including family and employment based immigration, citizenship and deportation cases. His law practice also includes representation of workers injured on the job, especially for workers without employment authorization.
Commitment to the Practice of Law
Paul Balducci was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1992 and has been successfully serving the local Augusta community in his law practice for over a decade. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Mr. Balducci is able to serve a wide range of clients, including those who might otherwise be unable to communicate their needs to a legal professional. His unique life experience, skills, and legal expertise make Mr. Balducci an excellent advocate for anyone needing help with an immigration issue.
Commitment to the Community
Mr. Balducci is proud to serve the Augusta, Georgia community in both a professional and personal capacity. He actively works to keep community members informed on the changing face of immigration policy in the United States, and has appeared on local television programs to discuss immigration in both English and Spanish. His editorials on immigration issues are featured in the local Hispanic publication, Hola Augusta, and he has volunteered his time to meet with local students in the classroom to talk about immigration issues and the United States Citizenship process.
Commitment to the Importance of Family
A strong understanding of the importance of keeping families together is at the heart of Mr. Balducci's perspective on immigration, and is what makes him such an effective attorney. Paul's mother was born and raised in Mexico, D.F. and immigrated to the United States as a newlywed. His belief that families deserve every opportunity to stay together strengthens his practice of law, and he works tirelessly to both help bring clients' relatives into the United States and prevent them from being removed. As a son, husband and father of five, Mr. Balducci understands that there is no such thing as a "small immigration matter" and that immigration law is not about petitions and applications, but about husbands, wives, sons and daughters, and is the reason so many people have confidently trusted him to handle their immigration cases over the years.
Attorneys Paul V. Balducci and Sarah A. Asad are members of AILA, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, for the year 2009.
Sarah A. Asad, Of Counsel
Attorney Sarah Asad specializes exclusively in US immigration and naturalization law and is now an Attorney of Counsel at the Law Office of Paul V. Balducci, with her own, independent practice.
Her interest in immigration law stems from world travel and personal experience; a child of immigrants, Sarah grew up in Japan and lived there for 18 years before moving to the United States. After graduating magna cum laude from Santa Clara University in California with a degree in Political Science and a minor in History, Sarah went on to earn her Juris Doctor with Honors from Concord Law School in Los Angeles.
Her multi-cultural background has taught her the true meaning of diversity in the United States. Besides speaking English, Sarah is also fluent in Japanese, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, enabling her to serve many people who would otherwise have difficulties in communicating their legal needs.
Sarah worked for The Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center in San Jose before becoming a member of the State Bar of California. There, she worked with a diverse array of individuals and their unique immigration situations, gaining the expertise necessary to be an effective advocate for her clients before the U.S. government. Due to the federal nature of her immigration practice, she is able to work with and advocate for clients from anywhere in the United States and around the world. Now in Georgia, Sarah continues to serve the community and her clients with the same high level of professionalism and ethics she was known for in California.
Sarah’s own immigration experiences with USCIS make her well aware of the effects the process has on every aspect of a person’s life. She takes every case seriously and works with precision, detail, and thoroughness. She listens to her clients carefully to make sure she understands their needs and works to ease the anxieties many immigrants have about the immigration process. Sarah advocates before the U.S. government and its courts to the best of her ability, and aims to humanize the application process by representing each client as an individual in front of the immigration authorities reviewing their case.