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Pasifika Immigration Law Group, LLP

We are a full-service immigration law firm located in downtown Fresno, California. We help to unite families all over the country, all over the world.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in all areas of immigration law, as well as criminal law as it relates to immigration issues. We speak Spanish, Russian, and Samoan.

We offer in-person consultations and appointments in the Fresno, San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, as well as in Salt Lake City, Utah by appointment.  We also provide nationwide and international consultations by phone.

“Pasifika Immigration was essential in helping my wife get a green card. The attorney was extremely thorough, easy to contact, fast in her responses and great at explaining details. She was also affordable and friendly. I would and have recommended her services to friends and family.”

— Dmitry S., San Francisco, CA

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Our Areas of Specialty

  • Deportation defense in immigration court
  • Consular processing cases at United States consulates worldwide
  • Green card renewals
  • Post-conviction motions and representation in California criminal courts to address criminal issues that impact immigration eligibility
  • Appeals to the Ninth Circuit and other federal courts of appeal
  • Special Juvenile Immigrant Status (SIJS)
  • Citizenship applications and interviews
  • Family petitions including those based on marriage, siblings, and child/parent relationships
  • Asylum applications based on fear of persecution
  • Derived citizenship claims
  • Inadmissibility and Criminal Waivers
  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
  • Battered spouse and U and T visa petitions for victims of violent crimes or human trafficking
  • Appeals and Motions to Reopen and Motions to Reconsider to the Board of Immigration Appeals
  • Administrative appeals and motions to reopen to US Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Parole in Place for Military Families

The Team

Leah Nagler Tuisavalalo, Attorney at Law

Leah Nagler Tuisavalalo was raised in both the United States and Samoa. She received her Juris Doctorate in 2007 from Santa Clara University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 2002. While at the University of Hawai’i, she clerked at the Legal Aid Society of Hawai’i, providing direct legal assistance to low income individuals in the areas of family law, housing law, consumer law and public benefits. While at Santa Clara, she continued to work with low income individuals and families at the Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Clinic, acting as the primary case handler, under attorney supervision, for those seeking immigration relief.

Currently, Ms. Tuisavalalo specializes in all areas of immigration and nationality law, including deportation and removal defense, asylum, citizenship and naturalization, family-based immigration, immigrant and non-immigrant visas, consular processing, appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and post-conviction relief.

Ms. Tuisavalalo has represented clients before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the California State Bar, and is admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Ms. Tuisavalalo is currently serving as co-AILA liaison to USCIS Fresno.

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Olga Grosh, Attorney at Law

Olga Grosh was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to the United States as a child. Olga graduated with high honors from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia with a major in Hispanic Studies, and a minor in International Relations. Olga earned her J.D. at the University of California, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco where she realized her passion for immigration law, which she has been practicing since.

After her own 15-year struggle to obtain citizenship, Olga is a driven and compassionate representative of immigrants’ rights. Olga focuses on removal and deportation proceedings, Board of Immigration and Ninth Circuit Appeals, family petitions, consular processing, adjustment of status, affirmative and defensive asylum, and has particular expertise in U visas and Violence Against Women Act applications for victims of crime and domestic violence. Olga is a member of the Washington, D.C. Bar and is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Published Works:

  • Foreign Wives, Domestic Violence: U.S. Law Stigmatizes and Fails to Protect “Mail-Order Brides,” 22 Hastings Women’s Law Journal 81 (2011).
  • A Call of Duty, Preventing Adoption Disruption by Expanding Adoption Providers’ Responsibility to Investigate and Disclose Adoptive Children’s Medical History, 11 Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy 149 (2011).
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Ciaran Patrick Pratt, Attorney at Law

Ciaran Patrick Pratt was born in Germany to parents from Ireland and Argentina. He spent his early childhood in Germany, Ireland, England, and Argentina before immigrating to the United States with his family. Ciaran graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a major in Political Science, and minors in German and Mandarin Chinese. Ciaran graduated as a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Ciaran is a member of the Washington, D.C. Bar, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ciaran focuses on representation of clients in removal proceedings, bond, asylum, consular processing, family-based petitions, and appellate work before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Judith Zamora, Office Manager

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phone(559) 441-9400
fax(559) 441-9401
addressPasifika Immigration Law Group, LLP
923 Van Ness Ave, Suite 100
Fresno, CA 93721
This is an advertisement of Pasifika Immigration Law Group, LLP on behalf of attorneys Olga Grosh and Leah Nagler Tuisavalalo. Nothing on this website is intended to create an attorney-client relationship or provide legal advice. This website is informational only.