Howard A. Silverman

Howard A. Silverman is a Partner in the Firm and has been practicing exclusively in the field of immigration and nationality law since 1984. His practice focuses primarily on asylum and deportation cases, as well as family immigration and citizenship issues. Mr. Silverman has served on the American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA's) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Liaison Committee, the Interagency Committee, and the Board of Directors of the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF), and has also served as the Co-Chair of the AILA New England Chapter ICE Liaison Committee, Liaison to the Office of Chief Counsel in Boston, and Co-Chair of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Liaison Committee. Furthermore, he has served as the Chair of the New England Chapter of AILA and Chair of the Boston Chapter of the National Immigration Project.

Mr. Silverman has been a speaker at immigration law programs and workshops nationally and in the Boston area, and has been presented with the PAIR Project Mentor of the Year Award three times for his volunteer work supervising pro bono attorneys representing political asylum applicants. Mr. Silverman is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has also been granted the AV rating, the highest rating available by Martindale-Hubbell. In addition, he has been named by Boston Magazine as a New England Super Lawyer in the field of immigration law. He is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.

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  • March 11, 2010:
    Ross, Silverman & Levy LLP becomes Ross Silverman LLP.
  • March 25, 2010:
    As part of AILA's ICE and DOL liaison committees (respectively), Howard Silverman will meet with ICE and Sharryn Ross will participate in a teleconference with DOL.
  • March 26, 2010:
    Howard Silverman will speak at the AILA National Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. on the ICE Enforcement Panel.
  • May 21, 2010:
    Heidi Snyder will speak at MCLE's 9th Annual Immigration Law Conference on the topic of PERM.
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