Elaine H. Witty

Founder

Elaine H. Witty is Founder of Witty Law Group, PLLC located in New York City. She is former Senior Counsel to AV rated national immigration law firm, Siskind Susser in Memphis, TN. Ms. Witty is past Executive Director of the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Affairs at the Human Resources Administration (HRA) under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. She also served as Director of Legal Affairs for Citizenship New York City (CNYC), a mayoral citizenship initiative, developed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

A graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women, Ms. Witty is an active member of the Bar. She is past Chapter Chair of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in New York, New Jersey, and Tennessee.

Ms. Witty has taught immigration law seminars at New York Law School, City University of New York, City Bar Association, Federal Bar Association Immigration Law and Labor Law Sections, and AILA's National, New York Chapter, Mid-South Chapter, and Rome District Chapter conferences. She is the author of numerous articles on immigration law.

Her practice areas include employment based immigration, litigation and deportation defense, family based immigration with a specialty in waivers of inadmissibility, naturalization and derivative citizenship, and religious worker cases.

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