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Angela Kwan

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Angela Kwan

Managing Partner

1051 Perimeter Drive, Suite 400
Schaumburg, IL 60173

847-805-9410
Fax: (847) 805-9468

Angela focuses her practice on immigration and family law issues. She has regularly appeared on Korean language cable television news programs to provide information on updated immigration laws and regulations.

Angela has also lead seminars on E-2 Treaty Investor Visas, Immigration, and Employment Issues. Additionally, she has worked with congressional staff to obtain a congressional inquiry on immigration matters.

Angela frequently deals with bars to admissibility, extraordinary ability petitions, and waivers of two-year foreign residency requirements. She has advised U.S. and multinational corporations on workforce strategy and visa processing for their foreign national employees.

Presently, Angela aids individual clients and small business owners with matters of immigration, business transaction, adoption and dissolution of marriage.

Bar Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit - 2012
  • U.S. District Ct. Northern District - 2008
  • State of Illinois - 2001

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL, 2001, J.D.
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 1994, Master of Art, East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 1992, B.A., Economics, Honors: Dean's List

Published Works

  • Slice of Life, a weekly essay appeared in the Korea Daily in 2007-2008

Current/Past Affiliations or Offices Held

  • Korean American Scholarship Foundation
    • Board of Directors, September 2016 to present
  • Korean American Women's Association
    • Vice President, July 2011 to June 2013
    • General Secretary, July 2014 to July 2015
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association
    • Member, Since 2001
    • Chicago Chapter, Media Outreach Committee Co-chair, 2006
  • Korean American Bar Association of Chicago
    • Member, Since 2012
  • Illinois Bar Association
    • Member, Since 2001

Foreign Langauges

  • Korean
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