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PDA is pleased to welcome Vicenta Montoya to our family, and looks forward to her leadership in her new role as the Immigration Working Group Coordinator. She was born in Kingman, Arizona, and raised in Las Vegas Nevada. She has two years as an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, a BA from University of Nevada Las Vegas, and received her law degree at Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco.
Vicenta has been practicing Immigration law since 1976. During a year and a half hiatus from law school, she served as a certified representative through the National Lawyers Guild Willamette Valley Immigration Law Project in Portland, Oregon. She got hooked on immigration law and continued practicing it through community law projects, including Centro Legal in Oakland, California, OLA Raza in Bakersfield California, and Catholic Charities in Las Vegas. Vicenta was the director of the Immigration Project for Catholic Social Services for the Archdiocese of San Francisco 1983-85, and also had a private law practice in San Francisco for about 9-10 months. She returned to Las Vegas in 1985 to set up her immigration law practice.
Vicenta practices in every facet of immigration law. Her primary emphasis is deportation defense, family based visas, NACARA adjustments, and naturalizations. After 30 years of doing this work, Vicenta is now semi-fluent in Spanish.
"I am an immigrant," she comments. "One side of my ancestors immigrated here 25,000 plus years ago via a land bridge or by way of the ocean depending on the theory du jour, and my European ancestors began their imperialistic quest in this land more than 400 years ago."
Vicenta brings many assets to her new post. We look forward to great results from the Immigration Working Group under her leadership.
Click here to join the Immigration Working Group.