Claire
De Gerin-Ricard

Ms. de Gerin-Ricard provides representation to corporations and foreign nationals in the area of employment-based immigration. Throughout her career, she has managed high-volume, complex, and time sensitive immigration matters for large multinational enterprises as well as small to mid-sized companies.

In addition to her employment-based immigration practice, Ms. de Gerin-Ricard represents foreign nationals in family-based immigration matters, citizenship and naturalization and asylum and related claims, waivers, and litigation before the Executive Office of Immigration Appeals and Board of Immigration Appeals.

Ms. de Gerin-Ricard has given presentations on various immigration topics to conferences, non-profit organizations, and international student associations. She continues to be at the forefront of immigration issues and contributes to immigration forums on a regular basis.

Maureen
Johnson

Senior Attorney

Maureen Johnson has a wide range of expertise in supporting both corporate and individual immigrant clients. She specializes in the filing of O-1 and EB-1A petitions for individuals who possess extraordinary ability in the arts, entertainment, business sector, sciences, and athletics. She has also successfully represented clients in family- and employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions, naturalization, waivers of inadmissibility, U visas, asylum and VAWA applications.

Prior to joining The Immigration Law Offices of Claire Degerin in 2013, Maureen worked as Of Counsel and Associate Attorney with Beach-Oswald Immigration Law Associates in D.C., representing individuals facing removal before the Immigration Courts. She wrote dozens of successful legal briefs, appeals, and motions for cases before the Immigration Courts, BIA, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Maureen earned her J.D. from American University's Washington College of Law in D.C., where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, ranked in the top 5% of her graduating class, and was honored with the Mussey Award as well as membership in the Order of the Coif. Maureen holds a B.A. in International & Area Studies from UC Berkeley, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with high honors and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa.

Melissa
Mullan

Senior Attorney

Melissa Mullan is an Immigration Attorney with expertise filing petitions for all major nonimmigrant visa categories and permanent residence matters, including employment and marriage-based visa petitions for individuals and corporate clients.

Melissa began her career as an Associate Attorney with Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP in New York, representing multinational corporate clients in a wide range of industries, such as science and engineering, information technology consulting, business and management consulting, financial services, healthcare, transportation technology, and entertainment and media. Melissa also has specialized expertise in high-volume and time-sensitive visa petitions for entertainers, musicians, artists, and entrepreneurs.

During law school, Melissa interned with the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, Newark Immigration Court, and (Magistrate) Judge Kristen Mix in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. She also has extensive experience regarding the intersection between criminal law and immigration (“crimmigration”).