Biography: Corporate Immigration

Cyrus D Mehta is the founder and managing attorney of Cyrus D Mehta & Associates, PLLC (CDMA). He represents corporations and individuals from around the world in business and employment immigration, family immigration, consular matters, naturalisation, federal court litigation and asylum. He also advises lawyers on ethical issues. He is an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School where he teaches a course on immigration and work.

Mr Mehta is chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) national pro bono committee and co-chair of the AILA NY chapter pro bono committee. He is a frequent speaker at the most prestigious conferences on immigration law and is also the author of several influential articles on immigration topics, including ethics. Newspapers and television programmes constantly seek Mr Mehta out for his expert opinions. In 2010, Mr Mehta was appointed special counsel on immigration matters to the departmental disciplinary committee, appellate division, first department, New York. He also serves on the board of directors of Volunteers of Legal Services. In 1997, Mr Mehta won AILA's Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award for outstanding contributions in the immigration field.

Mr Mehta is a former chairman of the board of trustees of the American Immigration Council (2004-2006), chair of the committee on immigration and nationality law (2000-2003) of the New York City Bar Association and secretary of the same association (2003-2007). He is also a member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), www.abil.com.

Mr Mehta graduated with a BA degree from St Xavier's College, Bombay University, and subsequently obtained law degrees from Cambridge University, England (MA in law), and Columbia Law School, New York (LLM). In his spare time, Mr Mehta plays the violin.