Lauren Kosseff

• Asylum and Refugee status

• Family-based Immigration

• Humanitarian-based Immigration (including Temporary Protected Status and Direct Access Program for Syrian and Iraqi refugees)

• Waivers

• Deportation and Removal Defense 

• U.S. Naturalization and Citizenship

In addition to her immigration practice, Lauren has served as an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School’s Safe Harbor Project where she supervised students in their preparation of asylum applications.

Lauren has worked in private practice in New York City since 2008 handling a wide range of immigration matters. Prior to joining private practice, Lauren developed her expertise in immigration law as a staff attorney at the Immigration Unit for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where she assisted federal judges in addressing complex immigration topics, including jurisdiction, adverse credibility determinations, exceptions to the requirements for filing motions to reopen, and ineffective assistance of counsel claims. Upon graduation from Brooklyn Law School (2006), Lauren served as a law clerk for the Attorney General’s Honors Program with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (New York Immigration Court), where she prepared draft decisions for the judges involving immigration issues such as asylum, cancellation of removal, waivers, aggravated felonies, and crimes involving moral turpitude. 

During law school, Lauren interned with the Immigration Protection Unit of the New York Legal Assistance Group as well as the Executive Office for Immigration Review (New Jersey Immigration Court). Lauren’s article, “Two Immigrants, Two Standards,” was published in the Washington Post (2006). 

Lauren taught Spanish and English as a Second Language prior to becoming an attorney and has been awarded for her extraordinary commitment to youth. While studying abroad in Bolivia, she conducted a study on the U.S. War on Drugs’ effect on Bolivian children who live in prison with their parents.