Top Rated Immigration Attorney in New York, NY

The founder of the Guerrero Law Firm PLLC, Rio Guerrero focuses his practice exclusively on a variety of immigration matters. Located in New York City, he represents people and companies throughout the greater metropolitan area, and he has been admitted to practice before all New York and New Jersey state courts since 1999.

Mr. Guerrero obtained his undergraduate education at American University in the District of Columbia, where he majored in both economics and international relations and received two bachelor’s degrees in 1994. He then went on to pursue his legal studies at Brooklyn Law School, and he received an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship that involved a paid summer internship with a public interest organization before he was awarded his Juris Doctor in 1998.

Mr. Guerrero’s immigration experience is vast. He has helped clients obtain K-1 fiancé(e) visas as part of his family immigration caseload, and he has worked on a variety of employment-based matters, including H-1B visas, O-1 visas for people possessing extraordinary abilities, P visas for entertainers and athletes, and visas for investors, religious workers, diplomats, traders, and essential employees, among other classes of applicants.

Mr. Guerrero has helped people from other countries who are claiming asylum due to persecution, and he has guided clients who wish to become citizens through the naturalization process. Other immigration matters that he has worked on have included deportation and removal defense, U visas for female victims of violence, and T visas for victims of human trafficking. His professional memberships have included the Asian American Bar Association of New York and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.