Attorney Annalee Patel

Annalee Patel is an Associate Attorney at Farmer Law PC, where she primarily focuses on non-immigrant and immigrant petitions. She is passionate about human rights and educating Clients throughout the complex, confusing immigration process in order to actualize their goals.

She pursued these passions by starting out in asylum-based immigration before pivoting to employment-based immigration where she started with L-1A and L-2B petitions. Annalee then accumulated experience with complex immigrant visa petitions, such as EB-1, EB-2, and I-485 Adjust of Status petitions. She also has experience representing clients in removal defense proceedings, filing I-601 and I-601A applications, and other visa petitions.

Annalee is based in Dallas, TX where she continues to develop her immigration knowledge with her enthusiasm to learn and help through pro bono work to ensure people have access to immigration resources without having to feel alone against an intimidating, complex immigration system.

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