Ms. Witty is an AV-rated immigration attorney based on peer reviews for ethical conduct, honesty and integrity in the field of immigration law.
In addition to her law practice,Ms. Witty serves as an Adjunct Professor at City University of New York's School of Professional Studies.
Ms. Witty is an active member of the Bar and a sought-after speaker. She has taught immigration law seminars at New York Law School, City University of New York, City Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
She has recently been appointed by the President of the Tennessee Bar Association to serve on the Association's Access to Justice Committee. Ms. Witty is the Chair of the Advocacy Committee for the Mid-South Chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She is immediate past Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Immigration Law Section. She is past Chapter Chair of the New York Chapter of AILA and is a current member of AILA National's Board of Publications Committee and its Annual Conference Planning Committee.
For over 20 years, Ms. Witty has practiced exclusively in the field of immigration law in both the private and public sectors. She is the former Executive Director of the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Affairs at the Human Resources Administration under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Ms. Witty also served as Director of Legal Affairs for Citizenship New York City, a mayoral citizenship initiative, developed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, in response to federal Welfare Reform.
A graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women, Ms. Witty is admitted to practice law in state and federal courts in New York, New Jersey and Tennessee, the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her practice areas include employment-based immigration, religious worker cases; litigation and deportation defense; family-based immigration with a specialty in waivers of inadmissibility; and naturalization and derivative citizenship.
Articles and Publications
Author: "Waivers of Inadmissibility: Changing Landscape," Tennessee Bar
Association publication, 2012.
Editor-in-Chief, American Immigration
Lawyers Association New York Chapter Annual Conference, 2011.
Co-Author,
"Chapter 2 United States America," Global Business Immigration Handbook, Thomson
Reuters, 2011.
Co-Editor American Immigration Lawyers Association — New
York Chapter Annual Conference Handbook, 2010.
Editor-in-Chief, American
Immigration Lawyers Association Mid-South Chapter Conference Handbook,
2010.
Editor-in-Chief, American Immigration Lawyers Association Rome
District Chapter Annual Conference Handbook, 2010.
Co-Author, "Religious
Workers: Occupation or Vocation," American Immigration Lawyers Association
Options for Religious Workers, 2010.
Co-Author, "Nontraditional
Religious Occupations," American Immigration Lawyers Association Options for
Religious Workers, 2010.
Editor-in-Chief, American Immigration Lawyers
Association Rome District Chapter Annual Conference Handbook, 2010.
Author, "Immigration Law for the Family Law Practitioner," Family Law Update
2010, Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers; 2010.
Author, "An Overview of
Immigration Law"
Tennessee Bar Association, Immigration Committee
Newsletter, 2009.
Author, "'DO's and DON'Ts' for Attorneys Representing
Visa Applicants (And For Consular Officers Too," American Immigration Lawyers
Association New York Chapter Conference Handbook, 2009.
Author, "Waivers
of Inadmissibility," American Immigration Lawyers Association Mid-South
Conference Handbook, 2009.
Author, "Waivers of Inadmissibility Filed
Abroad"
American Immigration Lawyers Association — New York Chapter Annual
Conference Handbook, 2009.
Co-Editor, American Immigration Lawyers
Association New York Chapter Annual Conference Handbook, 2009.
Author:
"Physician Assisted Suicide: An Overview," Brooklyn Barrister, February,
1997.
Editor, "Concerns for Older New Yorkers," New York State Bar
Association, 1996.
Co-Author: "Lawful Employment Discrimination," Brooklyn Barrister, June
1995.
Associate Editor, National Jewish Law Review, 1990-1991.
To schedule an initial consultation with a Memphis Immigration attorney, call (901) 692-5732 or with a New York City Immigration Attorney, call (646) 380-0474 or contact Witty Law Group, PLLC.
AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.
