Angela de Castro is an immigrant rights advocate with more than a decade of experience. She started her career as a family and immigration attorney at Bronx Legal Services, a non-profit in New York City where she primarily represented survivors of domestic violence in various family and humanitarian-based immigration matters, including U and T visas, VAWA, BSW, SIJS, and asylum, before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Office of Immigration Review. Angela also handled custody, guardianship, visitation, child support, order of protection, and divorce matters in New York City Courts. Angela went on to work in the private bar for law firms in California and New York. She represented clients at naturalization and adjustment of status interviews throughout Southern California and in Los Angeles Immigration Court, and assisted in the preparation of applications for various employment-based immigration matters. Angela gained extensive removal defense experience, having represented more than 40 clients at their individual hearings for asylum in New York Immigration Court. During this time, Angela remained connected to non-profit work through volunteering with non-profit legal organizations and representing a client pro bono in his defensive asylum case in Los Angeles Immigration Court. Angela is a graduate of CUNY School of Law and CUNY Hunter College.
