Tanya Marie Lee

As owner of her own boutique immigration firm, Ms. Lee has experience with family- and employment-based immigration. She is a graduate of Princeton, Cornell, and Howard Universities. Her interest in immigration was sparked through international study at a Japanese University in Tokyo; an international ex-pat assignment in Paris, France; and marriage to an immigrant to the U.S. Ms. Lee served for five years as Corporate Counsel with The Procter & Gamble Company holding responsibilities in labor and employment law, trademarks and copyrights, intellectual property licensing, and advertising law. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones (now retired) of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit and has taught Business Associations as an adjunct professor with Phoenix School of Law. Prior to opening her immigration firm, Ms. Lee served as an immigration attorney with Littler Mendelson, P.C. and with Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, where she helped facilitate the legal movement of foreign national employees of multinational companies into the U.S. for business travel; confirmed U.S. visa eligibility, and prepared petitions for temporary business visits, work, and training. She coached client employees in preparation for Consulate interviews and/or in response to security checks; collaborated with a corporate client to develop its internal immigration processes and recommended solutions to immigration issues at the employee, Consulate, and country levels. She researched and drafted briefs in response to U.S. government requests for additional evidence of visa petitions and created and delivered immigration training for client managers and employees.

Howard University School of Law

J.D.

1996 - 1999

Honors: Howard University School of Law Merit Scholarship (1996-1999); Finalist, 1997 Charles Hamilton Houston Moot Court Competition; CALI Award for Top Grades, Criminal Procedure I; Legal Reasoning, Research & Writing I; Civil Procedure

Activities: Associate Editor, Howard Law Journal (1997-1999); National Moot Court Team (1997-1998)

Cornell University

Graduate Certificate in Japanese

1993

Honors: U.S. Department of Education Fellowship; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Graduate Scholarship

Princeton University

East Asian Studies

1990

Activities: Five-Year East Asian Studies Program and Certificate

International Christian University, Toyko, Japan

university study in Tokyo, Japan

1988 - 1989

Ohio State Bar

Member

Current

Procter & Gamble Alumni Network

Board Member

2009 - Current

Princeton

Alumni Association of Northern Arizona Alumni Schools Committee Member

2006 - Current

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Member, Arizona chapter

2006 - Current

Ohio

Since 2001