Jennifer Stevens
Managing Partner
Sector: UK Immigration
Location: New York
Jennifer is the managing partner of Laura Devine Attorneys in New York. Jennifer is an English solicitor and foreign legal consultant in New York and has extensive experience advising on UK immigration matters including sponsorship licences and compliance, Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility and applications under the Global Talent and Creative Worker routes. Jennifer also assists with family-based applications as well as British nationality, naturalisation and registration. Jennifer has a global client base from a variety of sectors.
Jennifer is acknowledged in Who’s Who Legal for being an “experienced corporate immigration lawyer” and for having an “in-depth knowledge” and being “committed to improving the quality and consistency of UK immigration law”. Jennifer is also recognized in Chambers and Partners UK and in Chambers Global as a foreign expert and “first class,” as well as being described as “very knowledgeable and helpful – a delight to work with.”
Jennifer is co-convenor of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association’s (ILPA) New York working group and is the immediate past Co-Chair of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee of the Section of International Law (SIL) at the American Bar Association (ABA). She is also a member of British American Business (BAB).
Jennifer has presented on UK immigration at the ABA, New York City Bar, as a guest panellist at the Brooklyn Law School and Columbia Business School and has provided training to other immigration law practitioners for ILPA and MBL.
History
2010 – present | Laura Devine Attorneys LLC, New York
2004 – 2010 | Laura Devine Solicitors, London
Education
2007 – Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales
2002 – 2003 | LPC College of Law, London, UK
2002 – 2003 | PgDL College of Law, London, UK
1998 – 2001 | BA in Intellectual History, Sussex University, UK
Chambers Global | Immigration USA – Foreign expert for the UK | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Who’s Who Legal | Corporate Immigration USA – Thought leader | 2024, 2023
Who’s Who Legal | Corporate Immigration USA – Global leader | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Legal 500 | US Immigration | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
The Best Lawyers in America | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
Chambers USA | 2018
She is a highly experienced and outstanding immigration lawyerWho's Who Legal Corporate Immigration 2023
Jennifer is a excellent resource for UK immigration mattersWho's Who Legal 2022
very responsive, helpful and thorough in all her responses Chambers Global 2020
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