Ms. Joy Alegria Haynes
Haynes Novick Immigration
2001 S Street, NW
Suite 550
Washington, DC 20009
USA
202-293-3123
Joy has been practicing immigration law exclusively since 2007, representing couples in adjustment applications based on marriage and other family-based petitions. She advises bi-national LGBT couples and has a successful track record securing marriage-based permanent residency when one or both spouses are transgender. With the downfall of DOMA, she now regularly files adjustment applications on behalf of married same-sex couples.
Joy also focuses on employment-based immigration. She has particular experience obtaining visas for E Treaty Traders and Investors, H-1B Specialty Workers, L-1A Multinational Managers and L-1B Specialized Knowledge Employees, O Extraordinary Ability Foreign Nationals, and P Entertainers. She also has deep experience with the employment-based permanent-residency process, including PERM (labor certification) and I-140 immigrant petitions. A particular niche area of hers is advising and representing those in the field of Montessori education.
Joy continues to give back to the community as a volunteer filmmaker for Saint Elizabeths Hospital and as a volunteer attorney for the Whitman Walker Name and Gender Change Clinic.
Prior to practicing immigration, Joy gained experience in employment, civil rights, and product liability class action litigation at California-based law firms.
2007
Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Bar Admissions
- California
- District of Columbia
Types of Cases Handled
- Adoption
- Asylum & Protection
- Business & Employment
- Consular Processing
- Deferred Action (DACA and DAPA)
- Deportation - Removal
- Family
- General
- Investor
- Naturalization
- Waivers
Languages Spoken at This Law Office
- Spanish
- Portuguese
