Yeager & Etkind

Focus and practice areas

Yeager & Etkind is an immigration law firm working out of Rockville, Maryland, with a second office in Washington, D.C. The firm's work sits entirely in immigration, and the range it covers is wide for a practice of its kind. That range runs across the categories most people search for when they need help with status in the United States.

On the employment side, the firm handles employment-based green cards, temporary work visas, foreign labor certification through PERM, and non-immigrant visas. Family-based green cards sit alongside that work. For clients facing trouble, the firm takes on waivers of inadmissibility, deportation and immigration court matters, and immigration appeals.

The humanitarian and citizenship categories fill out the list. The firm handles asylum, Temporary Protected Status and NACARA cases, criminal charges tied to immigration, and naturalization and citizenship applications. In my opinion, a client shopping for immigration help usually wants to know that one office can carry a case from the first filing through an appeal if it comes to that, and the practice areas here read that way.

How the firm came to immigration

The starting point is unusual. Yeager & Etkind was founded in 1989, and its first work was transportation law. In those early years the firm represented trucking, bus and small-ship companies before the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The shift came in 1995. The firm began practising immigration law to help clients dealing with the North American Free Trade Agreement, and by the end of that decade the practice had moved fully into immigration. That path, from freight regulation to visas, is a specific piece of history and worth knowing. It means the firm's immigration work has been running for roughly three decades.

The firm has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1995, the same year it took on its first immigration matters. Membership in that association is a common marker among firms that concentrate on this field, and the firm lists it plainly.

The reach the firm describes

Two numbers stand out in what the firm publishes about itself. It states that it has served more than 25,000 individuals, families and businesses. It also states that it has represented clients from 165 countries and every continent.

Those figures come from the firm's own pages, and I present them as the firm's own account. Still, the mix they suggest is worth reading. A client base drawn from 165 countries points to a practice used to filings that cross many consulates, languages and document standards. The count of people served points to volume built over the years since 1995.

Staff at the firm speak English and Spanish. For a good share of immigration clients, that second language matters at the intake stage, when the facts of a case get sorted out and the wrong detail can send a filing off course.

Fees and how work is arranged

The firm states that it provides most of its services under flat fee agreements. That is a plain point, and a useful one for anyone weighing cost against uncertainty. A flat fee sets the price of a defined piece of work at the outset, so the client knows the number before the work starts.

As a reviewer, I read flat-fee billing as a signal about the kind of matters the firm handles most: defined applications and petitions where the scope can be named up front. It fits a high-volume immigration practice. The firm does not publish the fees themselves, and this review does not carry pricing, so a prospective client should confirm the terms directly.

The named attorney

The firm's site names Stuart A. Yeager as an attorney with the practice. His work focuses on immigration matters, including employment-based immigration, which lines up with the firm's employment-side offerings.

On his background, the record is short but concrete. Yeager earned a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College and a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Those are the credentials the firm puts forward, and I report them as stated.

What a prospective client should take from this

The picture that comes together is a settled immigration firm with a long track record in a single field and a broad menu inside it. The firm covers green cards on both the family and employment tracks, work visas and labor certification, court defense and appeals, asylum and TPS work, and citizenship. Two offices, in Rockville and Washington, D.C., put it near the agencies and courts that decide these cases.

What the firm chooses to state about itself leans on longevity and volume: a founding in 1989, a full move to immigration by the close of the 1990s, AILA membership since 1995, and a client base that spans continents. Those are checkable claims of experience, and they are the sort of detail this directory values over slogans. The firm keeps its public marketing spare, and the facts it does publish are specific.

In my opinion, this listing suits a reader who wants an immigration practice with real tenure and a wide case mix under one roof, and who prefers knowing the fee before the work begins. The firm speaks to English and Spanish speakers, handles matters from routine applications to contested court cases, and has done so since the middle 1990s. Anyone considering it should reach the firm directly to confirm current fees, timelines and how a given case would be staffed.