Audrey Yankah

***** *** **** *****

Silver Spring, MD 20901

ad3y6q@r.postjobfree.com

301-***-****

Objective

Strategic, analytical, and Detail-oriented individual seeking a position at your company, where I can employ my research skills, legal knowledge, financial knowledge and client care experience to create a great experience for clients, team members, and foster a great work environment.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies, May 2018

Stevenson University, Owings Mills, Maryland

GPA: 3.901/4.0

Relevant Work Experience

Lacki & Company, LLC. April 2022 — Present

Immigration Paralegal, Chevy Chase, Maryland

● Preparing and filing of employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant matters including (H-1B, H-4, L-1A, L-1B, PERM Labor Certifications (EB-1C, EB-2, EB-3), LCA, TN, TD, E-3, DS-160, DS-260, I-140, I-1485, N-400, N-600, and other petitions for large corporations.

● Tracking cases to initiate cases and providing an initial evaluation to determine the eligibility of foreign nationals.

● Following up with foreign nationals, and clients to ensure document collections and questionnaires are completed and correct.

● Tracking LCA, and other filing to ensure company compliance on H-1B, H-1B1 and ensuring that all public access files are in order

● Preparing immigration forms and supporting documents, providing forms to clients and foreign nationals for signatures, and packaging cases for filing.

● Assist in preparing ads, filing prevailing wage determination requests, posting ads, monitoring ad run dates, documenting when ads are to be removed, preparing recruitment reports, preparing and filing PERM applications including batch PERM flings.

● Preparing audit responses to the department of Labor, and requests for evidence responses to USCIS.

● Preparing DS-260 and DS-160 applications to be filed with the department of state, and providing invitation letters when appropriate.

● Following all government and non-governmental notices or changes including with USCIS, DOL, and the DOS visa bulletin.

● continuing immigration education including following AILA, and other immigration based educational agencies to keep up on all immigration news and updates.

● Manage foreign national cases in all stages including non-immigrant, PERM labor certifications, adjustment of status, and naturalization.

● Assisting with government agency notices, updating foreign national information in INSZoom, and providing INSZoom generated reports for case tracking.

● Filing court responses to government agencies including the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO).

● Filing responses to litigant government agencies including The Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER), and The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

● Preparing immigration update presentations and presenting to large groups of company employees. Business Paralegal, Chevy Chase, Maryland

● Preparing and filing deeds with various states including Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

● preparing and assisting with filing articles of incorporation, articles of reinstatement, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) applications.

● Assisting with preparing articles of conversion for business cases

● Sitting in on board meetings and preparing the meeting minutes for corporations.

● Prepared Interrogatories, responses to interrogatories and documents requests responses for litigation matters.

● Assisting with trademark searches to ensure business start-up have no issues with trademarking application names.

● Tracking corporation accounts to ensure any changes in address, name, resident agent and tax filing are completed, and to ensure that corporations are in good standing with the states in which they are incorporated.

● Assisting corporations with paying corporate taxes and filing annual reports. Konare Law May 2019 —April

2022

Paralegal, Frederick, Maryland

● worked with clients on Immigration proceedings including, filing petitions with USCIS, motions, and correspondence with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR/ Immigration Court).

● Aided on cases based on employment-based Immigration with the Department of Labor, and filing applications through the Department of Labor Portal, and the Foreign Labor Certification Portal.

● Worked on cases with family court based on custody and filing pleadings for custody trials through the Maryland Electronic Court (MDEC) and Judiciary filing portal.

● File request for client records with the US. Customs and Border Patrol, USCIS, and Immigration Court.

● Assisted in preparing clients for their court trials by preparing trial binders, having preparation sessions, and taking detailed notes of everything stated in the prep sessions for record.

● Prepared different documents and applications to be submitted to the National Visa Center (NVC) for preparation for clients to have interviews with their respective consulates.

● Worked with multiple systems including SharePoint, PracticePanther, Microsoft Office, and more to ensure the organization and the timely filing of all documents.

● Stay in constant contact with clients and update them on the processing and the changes in their case.

● Worked directly with supervisors on cases and conducting legal research on new cases and how the laws are changing.

● Acted as a liaison when working on Immigration Court cases and assisting attorneys in trial preparation.

● Assisted in nurturing a learning environment by assisting in creating presentations to provide other team members with knowledge on specific types of immigration matters. Sparks Group (Wells Fargo Bank) August 2018—May 2019 Managed Resource, Frederick, Maryland

● Working with customers over the phone to assist them with their mortgage accounts and make sure that all their questions and concerns are answered.

● Working with different mortgage systems and applications to gain aid customers.

● Taking multiple calls from bankers and other companies including insurance companies and other banks to make sure that they have all the information they need to provide to their customers. Technological Skills

● Westlaw

● LexisNexis

● Practice Panther

● INSZoom

● SharePoint

● ShareFile

● Dockwise

● Clio

● Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Portal

● Department of Labor Portals (FLAG, FLCData)

● Maryland Electronic Court (MDEC)

● National Visa Center (NVC) Portal

● Microsoft (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

Relevant Coursework

● Legal Research and Writing

● Business Organization Law

● Civil Litigation and Pleading

● Intellectual Property Law

● Criminal Law

● Administrative and Government Law

● Contract Law

● Estates and Trust Law

● Information Systems (MS Office Applications

● Survey of Accounting

Additional Relevant Experience

Law Office of Kent Greenberg Jan 2017—April 2017

Legal Intern, Owings Mills, Maryland

● Assisting attorneys and other managerial staff in researching legal and financial issues and working on client matters.

● Communicating with clients concerning family, financial, scheduling, and data recognition concerns. Library Clerk, Sep 2017 – May 2018

Stevenson University Owings Mills Library, Owings Mills, Maryland

● Aiding students, faculty, and staff in gaining the information needed for multiple purposes.

● Keeping the library organized and communicating with co-workers to ensure the needs of library users are met.

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