Karen Winston

Attorney Karen Winston is the founder and owner of the Law Office of Karen Winston in Jacksonville, Florida. A top-rated, award-winning lawyer with more than nine years of legal experience, Ms. Winston focuses her practice solely on immigration law, and she provides exceptional advocacy and support to clients throughout Northeastern Florida and across the globe who have legal needs involving:

· Marriage and fiancé visas

· Waivers

· Deportation defense

· Bonds

· Appeals

· Asylum

· Citizenship and naturalization

· Visas for victims of crime, domestic violence and human trafficking

As an attorney, Ms. Winston has a deep and driving passion for keeping families together, and she works hard to help ensure her clients achieve the favorable outcomes they expect and deserve as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. Throughout her legal career, she has assisted dozens of clients from various foreign countries to realize their dreams of a better life in the United States, and she finds great reward in being able to affect positive changes in the lives of so many.

Honored for her outstanding professionalism and selfless service to others, Ms. Winston received the Exceptional Pro Bono Service in 2017 from The Supreme Court of Florida, and the Central Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association bestowed her with the 2016 Pro Bono Champion award for the invaluable service she has provided to immigrant crime victims, asylum seekers and others in need. She has also received Superb, 10 out of 10, client ratings on Avvo along with consistent top rankings and endorsements from her peers.

A 2001 graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, Ms. Winston obtained her Juris Doctor from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2010, and The Florida Bar admitted to her practice the following year. Also in 2010, she received the Equal Justice Works Fellowship from The Florida Bar and the Florida Bar Foundation, and she helped establish the Baker Defense Project of the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, which helped provide invaluable counsel to foreign nationals facing deportation and other serious immigration-related issues.

Highly active in her legal community, Ms. Winston is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and she currently serves as chair liaison for the organization's Central Florida Chapter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and the Florida Supreme Court.