Murray Osorio PLLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm works only in immigration law, and it describes itself as full-service within that field. Its site groups the work under nine service headings. These cover asylum, citizenship and naturalization, deportation defense, family immigration, and business immigration. Appeals and federal litigation appear as a separate heading, so the firm keeps cases that reach past an initial filing.

Two further headings round out the list: cases for investors, entrepreneurs, and business executives, and cases for artists, athletes, and entertainers. Deportation defense and humanitarian visas each hold their own place in the menu, which marks them as core work for the firm. Business immigration sits beside them, so a company sponsoring staff and a family facing removal can draw on the same office.

On the employment side, the attorney directory points to work on EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 green cards, H-1B visas, O-1 and O-2 visas, J-1 visas, and K-1 fiancé petitions. That range covers both humanitarian claims and skilled-worker cases. In my opinion the breadth is the first thing a reader should weigh, because it shows the firm is set up for more than one kind of client.

How the team is built

The site lists its lawyers by rank: senior partners, partners, of counsel, and attorneys at senior and associate levels. Four senior partners sit at the top. Brian Murray is a founding partner who earned his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in 2008, and his work centers on waivers and on challenges to charges of inadmissibility or removability. He has also handled matters involving asylum, citizenship, deportation, visas, and criminal defense.

Benjamin Osorio represents people in removal proceedings and has handled cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the United States courts of appeals. He came to immigration work after time as a clerk in a prosecutor's office and as a criminal defense practitioner. That mix helps in matters where a criminal charge and an immigration consequence run together.

Alexandra Ribe handles removal defense, humanitarian petitions, waivers of inadmissibility, family applications, and complex criminal immigration matters. She graduated from American University Washington College of Law in 2011 and teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Rina Gandhi leads the Maryland office and supervises the family, humanitarian, and employment teams there. She finished at William and Mary Law School in 2014, has worked in the immigration field since 2009, and leans toward affirmative filings such as the National Interest Waiver.

Partners and of counsel

Several partners bring defined areas of their own. Jason Dzubow earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he edited the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and he works on asylum and appellate litigation. His practice has taken him before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the immigration courts. Kane Vongsavanh studied at Florida State University College of Law and finished in 2011; he handles corporate nonimmigrant visas such as H-1B, L-1, O-1, P, E-3, and TN, along with permanent employment cases including PERM and the EB categories, and he also helps individuals and families with their own filings.

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg graduated from Yale Law School in 2008 and takes immigration matters alongside civil rights and constitutional law questions. He works in English and Spanish. The partner group also includes Alexandra Williams, Chris Carr, Cindy Larios, and Megan Herndon, and Anam Petit is listed as of counsel.

Where the firm works

Murray Osorio PLLC runs four offices. These sit in Fairfax, Virginia, in Silver Spring, Maryland, in Newark, New Jersey, and in Charlottesville, Virginia. The firm says it handles matters in all parts of the country, which fits the appellate and federal litigation its attorneys describe. For a client, that footprint means a nearby option in Virginia, Maryland, or New Jersey.

One change shows on every page: Cruz Law PLLC has joined Murray Osorio PLLC. The firm states this without added detail, and it reads as a plain expansion of the roster. The four locations give clients across the mid-Atlantic more than one place to meet a lawyer.

What the record shows

The evidence on the site rests mostly on named attorneys and their stated backgrounds. Many list a law school, a graduation year, and a defined practice area, so a prospective client can check who would handle a given matter. Court experience appears across those descriptions, including immigration court and the federal courts of appeals. A few of the attorneys also teach or edit in the field, which adds outside markers to the in-house record.

The firm offers consultations in person or by video, and it points to a national practice reachable through its four offices. As a reviewer I find the attorney-level detail the strongest part of the listing, since it lets a reader match a need to a name. Spanish-language work is listed for at least one partner, which can matter to clients who prefer it.