Immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano, who had called herself the “lawyer of miracles” as her career took off, is facing a lawsuit filed by nine clients. According to the lawsuit, Lozano advised people to apply for immigration benefits when they didn’t qualify for them and to make inaccurate or deceptive statements to immigration officials.
The lawsuit also alleged that she submitted documents with client signatures without their review, filed green card applications with false information, charged exorbitant fees, initiated immigration processes she knew were doomed to fail, had staff memorize scripts to make deceptive promises, and devised legal strategies relying solely on a computer program without her or other attorneys at her firm reviewing the files. Some clients said they are facing deportation because of Lozano’s false claims.
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A fraud division of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has also been investigating Lozano, according to a report by Seattle Times. The state attorney general’s office was, as of last July, conducting a “pre-litigation investigation” of Lozano’s firm into whether it engaged in deceptive and unfair business practices, according to a record obtained from that office through public disclosure mentioned by the report.
Lozano responded to these charges by resigning her law license to avoid disciplinary action. She...
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