Godzina
Your Immigration Advisors
The Godzina Law Firm, PLLC provides focused representation based on their vast legal experience, proven professional integrity, and complete responsiveness. With Godzina Law’s trusted advisors on your side, you’ll never have to worry about the immigration process being too difficult or confusing.
Meet the Immigration Law Team at Godzina Law
Our attorneys are passionate about you and your legal status. We find creative solutions every day that give our clients the best possible outcome in service of their goals, and we’re not afraid to tackle a challenge on your behalf.
Regardless of the situation and no matter how complicated, Godzina Law is ready to provide personalized attention when you need immigration services.
Principal Attorney
Bruce J Godzina
Bruce is an immigration attorney with nearly 20 years of experience. He has the knowledge and capability to provide a comprehensive representation for all types of immigration cases. His passion is in assisting families and individuals obtain the best results possible for their immigrant and nonimmigrant cases. He has helped thousands of clients in obtaining visas, permanent residence, and citizenship.
Bruce’s expertise includes visa petitions filed under extraordinary ability, outstanding researcher, multinational employees, managers & executives national interest waiver categories, and assisting clients to file labor certification (PERM) applications under EB-2 and EB-3 categories. Bruce has assisted investors with EB-5 visas, as either a stand-alone investment or as part of a Regional Center. Bruce has also extensive experience working with small to medium corporations and higher education institutions on a variety of immigration matters. With specialized knowledge of I-9 topics, he works closely with Human Resource personnel during the recruitment and hiring process, performs I-9 audits for employers, and advises corporations on a variety of other worksite immigration enforcement issues.
Bruce has represented clients before the US Supreme Court, federal (4th and 5th circuits), Immigration Agencies, Immigration Courts, and Bureau of Immigration Authority (BIA) in a wide range of immigration cases: Removal Defense, Adjustment of Status, Asylum, and Naturalization.
Bruce attended law school at the University of Houston, where he became heavily involved in the Immigration Clinic started by former Immigration Judge Joe Vail. He completed comparative law studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, McGill University in Canada, and the University of Kragujevac in Serbia. He has an MBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.
Attorney
Thiru Sethuraman
Thiru is a senior associate at Godzina Law firm. He has twenty-five years of legal, regulatory, and consulting experience both in-house and in the corporate sector. His areas of expertise include Immigration Law, Data Privacy Law, Anti Money Laundering Law, Anti-Corruption Law, Contracts Law, Corporate Compliance, and Investigations.
Thiru has been successful in working across industries, functions, and geographic regions; including Asia, North America, South America, Middle East, and Europe. He is committed to matters of Ethics and Compliance and was a regular speaker at various Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) conferences in Asia and the United States. Additionally, Thiru was an editor and author for numerous corporate in-house publications such as the Ethics and Compliance Digest and Compliance Advocate Newsletter.
His educational accomplishments include a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Accounting, a Master of Science in Industrial Technology from Purdue University, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Indiana University School of Law.
In 2007, Thiru was admitted to the Indiana State Bar. Along with his license to practice law, Thiru holds the following certifications: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Diploma in Compliance from the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Institute of Australia, and an Advanced Certification in Financial Crime from the International Compliance Academy (ICA) of the United Kingdom.
Thiru is a native of Malaysia and is deeply passionate about helping clients from many parts of the world achieve their immigration goals. Having first-hand experience as an immigrant, he understands the challenges clients face as they navigate through the complex web of US immigration processes. Through his work and personal experiences, Thiru strongly believes that a robust immigration system contributes greatly to the success of this nation.
Thiru enjoys spiritual music, yoga, meditation and vegetarian cooking. Thiru loves to travel. He has visited more than 30 countries over 5 continents.
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