Noemi E. Masliah is the principal at The Masliah Firm. Born in Havana, Cuba as a child of Holocaust survivors, Noemi immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of ten. She later graduated from Queens College and Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School before beginning her career in immigration law in 1980. Noemi has practiced all aspects of immigration law and is a recognized expert in the field with frequent speaking engagements, articles, interviews, and panel discussions at legal conferences and law schools.

Noemi’s practice includes complex employment-based immigration cases for both permanent and temporary visas, including foreign nationals of extraordinary ability, those whose work is in the national interest, and those who possess special, hard-to-find talents and skills. Moreover, she is an expert in family-based immigration and has personally helped thousands of families reunite and remain together in the United States. Finally, Noemi frequently represents asylum seekers in their basic quest for safe haven. “Birds don’t need visas” is Noemi’s professional mantra.

Noemi has served on the board of several prominent, national organizations in the field of immigration law and policy, including the American Immigration Council. As a long-time activist in the LGBTQ civil rights movement, Noemi also co-founded Immigration Equality and The DOMA Project, two organizations dedicated to providing legal services to the LGBTQ immigrant community. Noemi currently serves on the Board of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah where she helps lead its pro bono Ark Immigration Clinic.

Noemi’s Morkie Yofi is a beloved member of The Masliah Firm.

Marvic Gonzalez Thompson is Of Counsel to The Masliah Firm and works between her office in Baton Rouge/New Orleans, Louisiana, and The Masliah Firm’s office in New York City. Born in New Orleans to Venezuelan parents, Marvic was aware of immigration issues early on in her life as she watched her siblings, all born in Venezuela, as well as her parents, become U.S. citizens. Her interest in immigration and nationality law was cemented in her first job as a receptionist in a law firm where a partner was an immigration attorney. Later, Marvic worked as a paralegal, law clerk and associate for that same attorney as her passion for immigration law continued to grow. Since 1998, Marvic has practiced primarily immigration law including nonimmigrant, immigrant, deportation, and employment matters.

Marvic has been active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association serving as liaison to the Immigration Court in New Orleans and to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and as day coordinator for the annual immigration conference. Marvic is also an adjunct faculty member of the Louisiana State University Paralegal Studies program, teaching immigration law, and has had various immigration law speaking engagements.

Marvic is a graduate of Tulane University (BA ’94) and Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana (JD ’98). She also holds a Certificate of International Legal Studies from Loyola. She is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association.