Alsalman Law Office PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Immigration cases make up the core of the work at this Louisville, Kentucky firm, and its client base reaches into the Lexington area too. The firm handles green card applications, and it also handles federal court challenges to ICE detention. Both belong to immigration law.

Alongside the immigration work, the firm takes on personal injury and civil litigation. A client with an immigration question and a separate injury claim can bring both to one office.

The range of immigration matters

The immigration side of the firm covers several distinct filings. The list includes U.S. citizenship and naturalization, family and marriage-based petitions, employment visas, green cards, fiancé (K-1) visas, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, asylum, removal defense, and immigration habeas corpus. Each carries its own forms, timelines, and decision-makers.

Family, marriage, and fiancé cases

Family-based petitions start when a U.S. citizen or permanent resident sponsors a relative. The case moves through USCIS, and for a relative living abroad it can pass to a consulate for an interview. A fiancé (K-1) visa follows a related route. It lets a foreign fiancé enter the country to marry a U.S. citizen within 90 days, after which the couple can file for a green card. Marriage-based petitions cover spouses already building a life in the United States.

Humanitarian and court-based work

Asylum is open to people who fear harm in their home country on protected grounds. The applicant can file a claim with USCIS, or raise it as a defense once removal proceedings begin. Removal defense itself plays out in immigration court, where a judge weighs whether a person can remain. Habeas corpus petitions go into federal district court, and they test the legality of ICE detention. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status is for young people who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected, and it usually needs a state court finding before the immigration filing.

Employment and citizenship

Employment visas and employment-based green cards tie to a job offer or an employer sponsor, and the steps vary by visa category. Naturalization is the last stage for many clients. It involves an application to USCIS, a biometrics appointment, an interview, and a civics and English test. In my opinion, keeping that sequence with one office helps, because a missed appointment can push a case back by months.

How the team is built

The firm centers on Hishem Alsalman, an immigration and personal injury attorney. He earned his Juris Doctor from Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance from the University of Louisville. He is a first-generation Iraqi American and speaks Arabic and English. The site does not state a founding year.

Amanda Wallin, an associate attorney, earned her J.D. from Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, and is admitted in Kentucky. She represents clients in humanitarian immigration, including asylum, deportation defense, and family-based cases. Before joining the firm, she worked with a nonprofit legal clinic that gave pro bono representation to asylum seekers.

Harris Mian, also an associate attorney, earned his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Governors State University. He is admitted in Kentucky and speaks Urdu and Punjabi. His work centers on humanitarian and family-based immigration, and he interned with Indiana Legal Services during law school. He came to the firm after working with civil rights organizations and immigrant advocacy nonprofits.

Languages and client access

Between the three attorneys, the firm handles matters in English, Arabic, Urdu, and Punjabi. For immigration clients, that carries practical weight. A person explaining a fear of return or a detailed family history does clearer work in a first language, and a shared language reduces the reliance on outside interpreters.

Where the firm has appeared

The firm states that it has represented clients before the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, USCIS, and federal district courts in Kentucky and Indiana. Those four forums track the main stages an immigration case can reach. USCIS handles applications, the immigration courts hear removal cases, the Board of Immigration Appeals reviews those decisions, and the federal district courts take habeas petitions and other civil claims.

As a reviewer, I read that range as a sign the team works past the application desk and into contested hearings and appeals. The Indiana reach also lines up with Harris Mian's earlier work at Indiana Legal Services.

What the record shows

The firm is a small immigration-focused office with three named attorneys and a defined set of services. A prospective client can see who would handle the file, where each attorney trained, and which languages the office speaks. The personal injury and civil litigation lines give the firm a second area next to immigration.

For someone facing detention or a removal hearing, the federal court and appeals experience is the detail worth weighing. The firm names the courts and agencies where it has appeared, and it names each lawyer who handles the work. Between them, the three attorneys take immigration matters in English, Arabic, Urdu, and Punjabi.