Ms. Melissa G. Werger Rosen
Rosen Law Group, PLLC
575 Madison Avenue, 10th Floor
(Between 56th and 57th Streets)
Rosen Law Group, PLLC
New York, NY 10022
USA
(212) 605-0303
Melissa Werger Rosen practices exclusively in the field of immigration and nationality law. Ms. Werger Rosen maintains offices in both midtown Manhattan and Pleasantville (Westchester), New York, and she is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Werger Rosen specializes in all areas of immigration and represents clients in a diverse array of immigration matters, including family-based petitions, employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant petitions, citizenship, international adoption, religious workers, outstanding researchers and professors, entertainers, VAWA (battered spouse) petitions, registry, and visa lottery winners. Ms. Werger Rosen also serves as the Supervising Attorney for immigration matters for a battered women’s legal advocacy group serving the five boroughs of New York City, where she trains the legal staff and supervises the caseload of VAWA and U visa petitions.
Ms. Werger Rosen began her career in the field of immigration in 1987, working as a paralegal at a Central American refugee organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to law school she also worked at Harvard Law School on a study of the political asylum system in the U.S. Following law school graduation in 1992, Ms. Werger Rosen clerked for Justice Denise Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court. In 1995, Ms. Werger Rosen became one of two immigration staff attorneys at a nonprofit Legal Services Fund which served the 85,000+ members of a large maintenance workers union in downtown Manhattan. In 1998 she was made Supervising Attorney of the Fund’s nascent Immigration Unit, and as such she grew the department to a staff of 13, and was personally responsible for supervision of all 2,500+ immigration cases open in the Unit at any given time. In June of 2006, Ms. Werger Rosen left the Fund to go into private practice.
Ms. Werger Rosen also worked in the field of Latin American human rights both before and during law school. In 1990 she worked with the Chief Prosecutor for the Federal Appeals Court of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the prosecution of an ex-general who had been the military commander of Buenos Aires province during Argentina’s ‘dirty war’. In 1991 she was awarded a fellowship from the Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos in San Jose, Costa Rica, to participate in its Ninth Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Rights. Also in 1991, Ms. Werger Rosen was the Conference Coordinator for an international conference entitled “Legal Accountability for State-Sponsored Mass Murder and Human Rights Abuses” which brought together prosecutors from the Nuremberg era and human rights attorneys and prosecutors from countries such as Argentina, Chile, Peru, Romania, and Cambodia, to explore ways of creating legal accountability.
1993
Law School
Boston College Law School
Bar Admissions
- New York
Types of Cases Handled
- Adoption
- Business & Employment
- Consular Processing
- Deportation - Removal
- Family
- General
- Health Care Related Professionals
- Investor
- Naturalization
- Students and Exchange Visitors
- Waivers
Languages Spoken at This Law Office
- Spanish
- Portuguese
