Lieselot Whitbeck (DL), Stuart, FL 

Lieselot Whitbeck is a global immigration attorney with Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP. She is a member of the AILA Global Migration Section and Rome District Chapter and currently serves as co-chair of the Distance Learning Committee. From 2008 to 2010 she was a USICS Adjudications Officer at the Boston Field Office.

Stephen R. Pattison, AILA DOS Liaison Committee, Portsmouth, NH

Steve Pattison is a nationally recognized expert in US immigration law, Department of State policy and procedures, and consular operations. A graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas (1975) and the University of Texas Law School in Austin (1978), Steve practiced corporate litigation with the Houston firm Dyche and Wright before moving to Washington, DC to join the US Foreign Service in 1979. Steve had a distinguished twenty-eight-year career with the State Department, serving as a consular officer and manager in postings in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He also served in the Visa Office and the Bureaus of Near Eastern and Inter-American Affairs in the State Department. His final posting was as Minister-Counselor for Consular Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. n June 2014, Steve opened the Law Offices of Stephen R. Pattison, LLC and moved his practice in June 2017 to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Steve is a member of the State Bar of Texas and an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He was a founding member of AILA’s Rome District Chapter (AILA-RDC), serving as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair. He currently serves as a member of AILA’s Business Immigration Committee and previously served for five years on AILA’s Department of State Liaison Committee.

Aaron Karnell, Rockville, MD

Aaron Karnell is a senior attorney with Erickson Immigration Group. He was a U.S. Department of State Consular Officer for eleven years. His Foreign Service posts included Dar es Salaam, Gaborone, Guadalajara, Matamoros, Belfast, and a detail to Customs and Border Protection in Washington, DC. Mr. Karnell specializes in non-immigrant L, H, O, and B1/B2 matters, as well as CBP admission and entry issues, visa revocations, NIV waivers, strategies for dealing with administrative processing, and other issues.

Sonia S. Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA

Sonia is a sole practitioner at SSFL Law, APC. She has been practicing immigration law exclusively since 2014 focusing on family immigration, humanitarian relief and citizenship. She is a US Army veteran and former USCIS adjudications officer. Sonia regularly volunteers at local legal clinics and with the AILA’s Military Assistance Program. She is also a member of the AILA So. Cal LGBT Liaison/LACBA EC LGBT Liaison committee. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School (2007) and is licensed by the Superior Court of California.

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