Prizant Law P.C.

Focus and practice areas

Immigration law is the whole of the work at Prizant Law. The Forest Hills firm handles family petitions, marriage-based green cards, adjustment of status, naturalization and US citizenship applications.

The visa side covers a wide span of categories. B1-B2 visitor visas, K1 fiancé(e) visas, U visas, T visas and E-2 treaty investor visas all appear on the firm's list. Employment and business-based immigration sits alongside them.

Defensive work has its own place here. The firm takes on deportation defense, cancellation of removal, asylum claims, VAWA green cards and waivers.

What those categories involve

A few of these labels carry real weight for the people who need them. U and T visas exist for victims of certain crimes and of human trafficking, and they usually require law enforcement certification as part of the filing. VAWA petitions allow certain spouses, children and parents to self-petition without the abusive relative's involvement.

Removal defense runs on a different clock. Cases go before an immigration judge in a court under the Executive Office for Immigration Review, with hearing dates set months or years apart. Cancellation of removal generally asks the person to show long residence and hardship to a qualifying relative, and the record has to be built out of documents: tax filings, school records, medical evidence, letters.

Waivers are the quiet workhorse of this field. Many green card applicants hit a bar to admissibility and need a waiver approved before the case can move, which turns the matter into a hardship argument supported by paperwork rather than a simple form filing.

How the team is built

Svetlana Prizant, Esq. is the attorney the site puts forward. She immigrated to the United States herself and went through the immigration process before practicing in it.

In my opinion that detail carries more weight in immigration than in most fields. A lawyer who has filled in the forms as an applicant knows what the waiting feels like, and knows which questions clients are too nervous to ask.

Two other names appear on the About Us section: Monserrat Vidal and Itzel Alfaro. The site lists them as part of the team without stating their roles, so this review treats them as team members and leaves it there.

Prizant Law describes itself as a boutique firm, one that draws on the personal immigration experience of its attorneys and staff. That is a small-team model, and it usually means clients deal with the same people from the first meeting through to the decision.

Where the clients are

The office is in Queens, on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills. The firm points to the borough's ethnic and linguistic diversity and to its work with individuals and families from many countries.

Queens is a sensible base for this practice. It is one of the most linguistically varied places in the country, and immigration cases arrive there in volume and in every language.

The client base reaches well past New York. Prizant Law reports work for clients in Florida, Arizona and across the United States, and for people who are still abroad.

Why the geography works

Immigration is federal law, so an attorney admitted in one state can generally handle petitions filed with USCIS for clients living anywhere. Consular processing cases run through US embassies overseas, which puts the client in one country and the lawyer in another as a matter of routine.

Removal defense is the exception worth understanding. Those cases are tied to a specific immigration court, and venue follows where the person lives or where the case was filed.

What the listing shows and what it leaves open

The firm's site gives a clear picture of subject matter. The practice area list is detailed down to individual visa letters, which is more precise than many immigration sites manage.

Some things the site does not state. There is no founding year on the pages our research covered, and no law school or admission year for Svetlana Prizant. The roles of the two other team members are unlisted.

As a reviewer, I read the absence of case results and numbers as a fairly common choice among immigration firms. Outcomes in this field depend heavily on the individual record, and many practitioners avoid publishing figures that could read as a promise.

What the site does publish is contactable and consistent. The firm's structured data, contact page and home page agree on the name, the office and the way to reach it, which is a small sign of a site that is maintained rather than left to drift.

Who this fits

The mix of filings points at a certain kind of caseload. A firm doing family petitions, adjustment of status and naturalization alongside asylum, VAWA and cancellation of removal is set up for households, and often for the same household across several years and several statuses.

That combination matters more than it looks. A family case can turn into a removal case after one missed deadline, and an asylum denial can land the applicant in immigration court, so having both capabilities under one roof keeps the file with the same people.

The E-2 and employment work sits at a different end of the practice. Those cases turn on business plans, investment records and corporate documents, and the client is usually an investor or an employer rather than a family.

Prizant Law is a small immigration practice in Queens, run by an attorney who has been through the system as an applicant, taking work from New York, Florida, Arizona and elsewhere in the United States.

Attorney education

The record adds one useful credential for Svetlana Prizant: she earned her JD from St. John's University School of Law in 2011. That places her legal education in New York and gives directory readers a dated academic reference that the firm's own overview does not supply.

A JD year is a modest detail, but it helps distinguish formal education from broader biographical material. Here, 2011 is tied to the degree itself. It gives a clear point in Prizant's professional background without implying a separate bar admission date or a founding date for the firm.

Consultations and office hours

Prizant Law lists consultations as available. Its stated office hours are 9:00 to 18:00 from Monday through Saturday. The Saturday schedule is particularly relevant for prospective clients who may have limited access to a law office during the standard working week.

The published hours also give clients a concrete window for contacting the office. Immigration matters often involve gathering personal records and discussing family circumstances, so a scheduled consultation provides a defined starting point for that exchange. The listing supports only the availability of consultations and does not attach a stated format to them.

Street address and telephone contact

The full office address is 118-21 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, New York. The street-level detail is useful for visitors because it identifies the firm's physical location more precisely than a city or neighborhood reference alone.

The listed telephone number is 718-407-0871. Together with the published schedule, it gives prospective clients a direct route to the office during its stated business hours. For a directory entry, those details answer the immediate practical questions of where the office is and when staff report being available.