Arizona Immigration & Bankruptcy Lawyers

The Law Offices of Alice Vacek Aranda PLLC provides legal services in the areas of immigration and consumer bankruptcy. Although Alice Vacek Aranda, Esq. lives in Sedona, Arizona, the firm provides services nationwide in immigration, and throughout the state of Arizona in bankruptcy.

Immigration

We provide nationwide services in immigration and are willing to travel when there is a need. We defend asylum applicants in removal proceedings primarily in the immigration courts in Eloy and Florence. Once clients have been released from custody on bond or parole, we continue our representation in the immigration court in Phoenix.

We have also represented clients in the immigration courts in Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, Boston, Portland, Oregon, and Imperial, California.

Additionally, we provide immigration services in family-based visa petitions, naturalization, investment visas, and some employment visas. Our work includes filing applications for permanent residency for those who came to the United States legally, or to bring family members living overseas to the U.S. through consular processing.

We also help those who came to the United States without documents. We have been successful in filing waivers or pardons for unlawful presence, and applications for permission to reapply.

Finally, we can file appeals with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as other circuits by special permission for adverse decisions issued by an immigration judge.

Bankruptcy

Our bankruptcy practice focuses on consumer bankruptcy and small business liquidation or reorganization. Many of our bankruptcy clients have personal debts that allows us to file a Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13 bankruptcy for them.

A Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a liquidation bankruptcy, in which the debtor can keep only those things that are exempt under Arizona law. There are many things that are exempt under Arizona law, so that most debtors will be able to keep property that is a basic necessity and yet allow them to get a fresh start, leaving the burden of their debts behind.

A Chapter 13 is a little more complicated and is designed for those people who cannot qualify for a Chapter 7 because they earn too much money, or they have assets they have worked hard to get that they don’t want to lose. Chapter 13 is also helpful to debtors who have fallen behind in their mortgage and want to keep their home. It allows them to pay back the part of their mortgage they are behind on through a Chapter 13 Plan.

For our bankruptcy clients, we travel to creditors meetings, also known as 341 hearings to Phoenix, Prescott, Flagstaff, and Bullhead City.

From our offices are in Phoenix and Sedona, we see clients either by appointment, on Zoom, or in office. We also offer a free 30 minute consultation by telephone.