Making it harder than ever for families to obtain visas and green card approvals. Even minor mistakes can set your progress back by years—all when you can’t afford to lose more time with your loved ones. When your family’s immigration status is on the line, working with a dedicated immigration attorney is your best chance of reuniting your family and securing the appropriate immigration status.
Holmes & Ramos is dedicated to family-based immigration matters. We pride ourselves on providing effective counsel, based on our decades of service to immigrants in America. Our firm offers free consultations to understand your situation, advise you on the best course of action you can take to bring your loved ones together.
When you work with Holmes & Ramos, you can rest assured that you’ll receive competent, experienced legal help from a supportive team. We have partnered with national and international agencies to successfully handle thousands of immigration matters since 1991. Whatever the situation, our clients rely on us to provide the qualified counsel and fierce advocacy they need to meet their immigration goals.
Our experience includes addressing the immigration needs of individuals from all walks of life including members of our U.S. military, federal government contractors, members of our LGBTQ+ communities, and widows/widowers.
For more than 30 years, Holmes & Ramos Immigration Attorney has been serving the immigration needs of families all over the United States and all over the world. Originally founded by Lawrence R. Holmes in 1991, it was one of the first law firms in the U.S. to focus primarily on fiancée and marriage visas. Over the following decades, the firm expanded its services to include permanent residence, naturalizations, special waiver applications, and more.
Over these decades of practice, our firm has represented thousands of families, uniting loved ones and helping them to build their lives in the U.S. With this extensive experience, our attorneys have amassed a deep knowledge of U.S. immigration laws, regulations, and procedures; and we continue to stay abreast of the rapid changes in this ever-evolving field. When we take on your case, we not only represent you, we also help you to understand these processes and everything involved.
When our clients are successful, we are successful. Let’s chat and find out what we can do to help you achieve your immigration goals.
Melanie Ramos-Nix is the owner and Managing Attorney for Holmes & Ramos Immigration Attorney. With more than 15 years of U.S. immigration experience, families have come to rely on Melanie to assist in some of the most complex family immigration matters. Her experience runs the gamut, and she has successfully handled cases involving:
Melanie is also a proud Filipino-American. She cherishes her own immigration and family military heritage as the daughter of parents who immigrated from the Philippines during her father’s 26-year career serving with the United States Navy.
In 1991, Lawrence “Larry” Holmes founded the first immigration law firm in the world that focused solely on K-1 fiancée visas and CR-1/IR-1 spousal visas. After nearly three decades in practice, in 2019, Larry retired and passed the firm’s leadership to Melanie Ramos-Nix. Today, Holmes & Ramos continues Larry’s legacy in guiding hundreds of clients each year to achieving successful immigration outcomes for them and their families.
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