Eliza Rhine handles a wide range of cases before the Immigration Courts, the Federal Court, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, including asylum, family-based petitions, waivers of inadmissibility, and naturalization. Eliza is now based in our Newark, NJ office handling all types of immigration cases.
In law school, she was a Dean’s Fellow for the Immigrant Justice Clinic, assisting in removal defense matters and a student attorney with the Civil Advocacy clinic, representing clients in wage theft cases. She also spent a month in The Hague, Netherlands with her law school’s War Crime Research office, conducting site visits to international courts and tribunals and taking coursework on international law.
Bar Admissions
- Maryland
- Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Education
- 2021 American University Washington College of Law, J.D
- 2014 University of California, Irvine, BA in International Studies (Order of Merit), Spanish Minor, Cum Laude
Awards
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Nicaragua, 2014-15
Memberships
- Washington D.C. Chapter of AILA
- New Member Division
Languages
Interesting Fact
Eliza is originally from Los Angeles, California and has also traveled and lived abroad extensively. She studied abroad in Santiago, Chile and completed a ten-month Fulbright research grant in Nicaragua. She hopes to visit every continent.
