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Ilirjana Skara

Immigration Paralegal
Staten Island,NY

Summary

Education: Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, May 2020

Minor: Law

Certifications: Notary Public, State of New York

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Immigration Paralegal

Wildes And Weinberg PC
03.2023 - 06.2024
  • Enhanced case efficiency by organizing and maintaining legal documents, files, and correspondence.
  • Maintained a comprehensive knowledge of USCIS forms and requirements, ensuring complete application packages for clients.
  • Prepared a wide range of family based immigration forms such as AOS, Employment Authorizations, I-589's, AR-11, EOIR-33, EOIR-42B and I-130 marriage based. Gathered documents for clients and translated.
  • Compiled, updated, organized as well as maintained petitioner and beneficiary database on Tracker.
  • Prepared billing statements, invoices and client fees.
  • Prepared Info Passes and FOIA requests.
  • Provide notary services to clients.




Legal Assistant

Turturro Law P.C. 1602 McDonald Ave
10.2021 - 09.2022

Immigration/ Alien Relative Sponsorships

  • Drafting Petitions and motions for supervising attorneys for court proceedings concerning minor children
  • Drafting Immigration forms for family-based immigration filings for USCIS
  • Preparing submissions for filing with USCIS and Family Court guardianship cases
  • Efiling legal documents on the EDDS court platform for Family Court proceedings
  • Assisting with translation of client documents and facilitating with clients for intake; case updates; and responses to request for evidence
  • Case Document management for hundreds of clients with pending Family Court and Immigration Court proceedings

Divorce and Supreme Civil Proceeding

  • Drafting uncontested divorce package forms for submission to Supreme Court
  • Handling various court filings for supervising attorneys on the NYSCEF efiling system

Hostess

Quality Meats Steakhouse
10.2016 - 08.2021
  • Solid organizational and people skills to make sure our guests have positive dinning experience
  • Required to provide courtesy, customer service orientation, enthusiasm, proactivity, and good communication abilities
  • Observant to guests needs throughout dinning experience to ensure they receive high quality service

Office Administrator

VS1 Construction Corp
10.2020 - 07.2021
  • Required to communicate clients requests and update the construction management team.
  • Responsible for preparing project work tasks and relaying it to the management team.
  • Help organize bi-weekly cost meetings to review project status
  • Ensure all files and paperwork is brought back to the office from the field as needed


Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, Word and Excel, NYSCEF (Supreme Court Efiling System), and EDDS (NY Family Court Efiling system),USCIS, EOIR, I-94.CPB.


Languages: Fluent in English and Albanian


Thank you for your time and consideration.


Sincerely,
Ilirjana Voca

References

  • Alban Skara (646) 272-8547
  • Stacy Huber- (516) 702-7420
  • Kenia Sanchez- (718) 755-2209
  • Michael DiRaimondo - (917) 449-1946
  • Brandee Mcdermot /Ben Mcdermot (631) 245-1035
  • Michael Turturro- (917) 416- 1132
  • Natraj Bhushan- (646) 295-0629

Timeline

Immigration Paralegal

Wildes And Weinberg PC
03.2023 - 06.2024

Legal Assistant

Turturro Law P.C. 1602 McDonald Ave
10.2021 - 09.2022

Office Administrator

VS1 Construction Corp
10.2020 - 07.2021

Hostess

Quality Meats Steakhouse
10.2016 - 08.2021
Ilirjana SkaraImmigration Paralegal