Verma Law Firm

Focus and practice areas

Immigration is the whole of the work here. The firm handles business immigration, family immigration, citizenship, student visas and temporary visas, with offices in San Jose and San Francisco. The site says the firm takes clients from those cities, Silicon Valley and nationwide.

The business side covers a long list of visa categories: H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN, E-3, religious worker and investor visas. PERM labor certification and employer compliance also appear. That mix suits an employer-heavy region where sponsorship questions arrive alongside hiring decisions.

Family matters run through marriage, parent and sibling green cards, along with fiancé visas. Employment green cards sit on the same list. The firm also names asylum, deportation defense, immigration waivers and naturalization.

What those categories involve

Some general context helps here, since immigration categories carry different clocks and different decision-makers. Employment-based petitions usually start with an employer filing with USCIS, and PERM cases add a Department of Labor step before the petition is even possible. Family petitions depend on the sponsor's status and the preference category, which sets the wait.

Deportation defense moves through the immigration courts, which sit under the Executive Office for Immigration Review rather than USCIS. Asylum claims can arrive either affirmatively, through an asylum office interview, or defensively, as a form of relief in removal proceedings. Waivers usually turn on documented hardship to a qualifying relative. A firm listing all of these is telling clients it works on both the paperwork side and the courtroom side.

Who leads the work

Arjun Verma is the Managing Attorney. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1998 and has practiced law since that year. His immigration work in the San Francisco Bay Area covers more than 23 years by the firm's own account.

His education runs across two countries. He completed a B.A. at St. Xavier's College and an LL.B. at Bombay University, then an LL.M. at Tulane Law School. He is fluent in Hindi.

In my opinion that combination matters more in immigration than in most fields. A lawyer who has moved through an immigration process personally, and who can take instructions in a client's first language, reads a file differently. Bay Area immigration practice draws heavily on South Asian client communities, and Hindi fluency is a practical tool rather than a line on a résumé.

Career length as a data point

A 1998 bar admission puts the start of this career before several rewrites of US immigration practice. The 1996 reforms were still bedding in. The post-2001 security architecture, the creation of USCIS in 2003 and the many procedural shifts since then all landed during this attorney's working life. Anyone practicing continuously through that period has filed under multiple versions of the same forms.

How files get checked

One process detail on the site is worth pulling out. The firm states that at least two attorneys review documents and petitions on each case.

As a reviewer, that is the kind of claim worth flagging, because it describes a workflow rather than a result. Immigration filings fail on small things: a missing signature, an expired document, a checkbox left blank, an inconsistency between two forms in the same package. A second set of eyes before submission is a plain answer to that risk.

It also tells a prospective client something about staffing. A firm cannot promise two-attorney review unless more than one attorney touches the work. The site names Arjun Verma on its attorney page and describes the review step as standard practice.

Where the offices sit

Two Bay Area locations, San Jose and San Francisco, give the firm coverage across the region's two main employment centres. San Jose puts it inside Silicon Valley, close to the technology employers who file the bulk of H-1B and L-1 petitions in California. San Francisco covers the northern half of the same corridor.

The San Francisco Immigration Court and the San Francisco Asylum Office both fall within reach of these offices, which is relevant for the removal and asylum work the firm lists. Clients in deportation proceedings often need in-person meetings before hearings, and travel distance affects how easily that happens.

The firm also states it works with clients nationwide. Much immigration practice is filing-based, so an attorney can represent someone in another state through USCIS service centres and, increasingly, remote hearings. Local offices still matter for the parts of the process that put a client in a room.

What the listing supports

The verifiable facts here are the practice areas, the two office locations, the named managing attorney, his 1998 California Bar admission, his degrees and his languages. Those are the things a reader can check against the firm's own pages.

What the site does not publish is a founding year or a legal entity name, and it lists no social media accounts. For a firm of this apparent age, the record it does publish is centred on the attorney's credentials and the range of matters handled. Readers looking for case outcomes will find the site quiet on that front, which is common among immigration practices where results depend heavily on individual facts and government discretion.

Who this suits

An employer trying to sponsor a skilled worker will find the relevant categories named directly, including the PERM step that many employment green card paths require. A family sponsoring a spouse, parent or sibling will find those petition types listed too. Someone in removal proceedings will find deportation defense and asylum on the same menu.

The breadth is worth noting because immigration splits into fairly separate skill sets. Employment-based filing work and courtroom removal defense do not always live under one roof. Verma Law Firm lists both, alongside the waiver and naturalization work that often follows a resolved case.

My reading of the published material is that this is a career immigration practice built around one long-serving attorney, with a stated review process and two Bay Area offices. Arjun Verma has held a California bar licence since 1998.

Exact contact details

The San Jose location is listed at 1754 Technology Dr., Suite 214, San Jose, California. The main address field stops at the street address, while the fuller office description supplies the suite number. That distinction matters for anyone using the directory entry for an appointment, document delivery or written correspondence. Suite 214 is the complete destination published in the record.

The second office has its own full address: 802 Montgomery St., Suite 2D, San Francisco, California. Although San Jose is the city attached to the primary directory entry, the published material gives enough detail to identify the San Francisco suite separately. Readers should keep the two office addresses distinct when choosing where to send documents or attend a meeting.

Phone and website information

The record provides two telephone numbers, 415-650-2940 and 408-560-4622. It does not label either number by office. A caller therefore has two direct contact options, but the listing alone does not establish which line belongs to San Jose or San Francisco. That office assignment should remain unstated unless the firm publishes a clear association elsewhere.

The firm's website is avlawoffice.com. The domain uses a shortened form rather than spelling out Verma Law Firm, so matching the site with the directory name requires attention to the contact details on the page. The office addresses provide that confirmation. In particular, the San Jose street address on the site corresponds with the address attached to this listing.

How the directory record is anchored

For directory purposes, the San Jose entry has three concrete identifiers: the firm name, the Technology Drive address and the website. The fuller published description then adds the suite number and the separate San Francisco location. This structure makes San Jose the primary listing location while preserving the firm's second physical contact point.

I would treat the suite numbers as part of the essential office information. Immigration matters can involve original records, signed forms and scheduled consultations, so an incomplete building address has practical consequences. Here, the available record supplies the missing internal destinations for both offices and gives two telephone numbers for advance contact.