About us
elyannette ramírez martínez
IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY
Elyannette is a solo practitioner at Ramirez Martinez Law Offices, PLLC. Her practice is focus on removal defense and family immigration.
A cum laude graduate of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, School of Law, where she served as teacher assistant of Professors Carlos I. Gorrín Peralta and Roberto Abesada Agüet. She was a member of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico Law Review and was recognized with the Ivette Coll de Pestaña Award for her outstanding writing. Furthermore, she also served as President of the Student Chapter of the Puerto Rico Association of Notaries for the term of 2013-2014.
Prior to establishing Ramirez Martinez Law Offices, PLLC, Elyannette worked as a Bankruptcy Attorney in Puerto Rico. In 2016, Elyannette moved from Puerto Rico to the Commonwealth of Virginia and started to practice immigration law at the former Rodriguez and Sanabria, LLC, where she had the opportunity to represent many asylum seekers from Central America in their removal proceedings before the Immigration Courts located at Arlington, VA and Baltimore, MD.
On 2017, Elyannette decided to go as a solo practitioner and focused her practice in removal defense and family immigration. As an immigration attorney, Elyannette has had the opportunity of touching the lives of many people from different parts of world, mainly from the Northern Triangle. Elyannette has sucessfully represented clients before the Executive Office of Immigration Review located at Virginia and Maryland, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. As a Hispanic, Elyannette knows the barriers and difficulties that our community might have establishing themselves in the United States. Consequently, Elyannette is driven to provide excellent legal services and make the process smooth for everyone.
Elyannette is fluent in both English and Spanish. Elyannette enjoys tropical music, the beach, a good coffee, and gardening. In her free time, she enjoys to spend time with her family and baseball.
Bar Admissions:
Supreme Court of Puerto
U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
Executive Office of Immigration Review
Board of Immigration Appeals
Memberships:
American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2018 - Present
Federal Bar Association, 2020 - Present
Publications:
Las Recusaciones Perentorias como Instrumento del Discrimen por Orientación Sexual: Un Análisis a la Luz de Batson v. Kentucky, 48 Rev. Jurídica U. Inter. P.R. 663 (2014).
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E: eramirez@ramirezmartinezlaw.com