Kevin L Dixler
Law Office of Kevin L. Dixler
Mr. Dixler specializes in immigration, visa law, citizenship and related matters since 1993. He is a 31 year member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He now serves on the AILA National Committee for the 2025 Annual Convention in Denver. Mr. Dixler was nominated and named a Thomson Reuters Super Lawyer in immigration for the last eleven consecutive years. Many are marriage-based and family immigration clients. However, he is experienced in all aspects of immigration and visa law, which includes practice in the Immigration Courts. He has exceptional insight on cancellation of removal and waiver work.
Mr. Dixler represents those in Immigration Court facing asylum referrals, criminal conviction based deportation and challenging family matters, among other issues. Criminal defense attorneys contact him about the immigration consequences of a criminal record for their foreign born clients. He has significant experience with waivers of inadmissibility for crime, J-1 visas, misrepresentation, and unlawful presence.
He has served as a speaker and writer for AILA on these topics, among others. Mr. Dixler successfully defends clients in the Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals and Federal Courts. He has filed successful lawsuits against the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in Federal Court to challenge unreasonable delays with adjudication, naturalization denials, and name checks. He is also functionally bilingual in Spanish. Mr. Dixler is a Native Chicagoan, who is originally from the Central Rogers Park neighborhood.
- Immigration Law
- Asylum, Citizenship, Deportation Defense, Family Visas, Green Cards, Immigration Appeals, Investment Visas, Marriage & Fiancé(e) Visas, Student Visas, Visitor Visas, Work Visas
- Credit Cards Accepted
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Appointment required for new clients. General information provided over phone.
- Illinois
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- Hindi: Spoken
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
- Urdu: Spoken
- Principal
- Law Office of Kevin L. Dixler
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- Immigration, visa and citizenship practice working with applicants and respondents at DHS, Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Courts.
- The John Marshall Law School
- J.D. | Law
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- University of Illinois - Chicago
- B.A. | Liberal Arts and Science - History
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- University of Illinois - Chicago
- B.S. | College of Business Administration - Marketing
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- SuperLawyer
- Thomson Reuters
- Super Lawyer
- Thomson Reuters
- Super Lawyers
- Thomson Reuters
- Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.
- Super Lawyer
- Thompson Reuters
- Super Lawyer
- Thompson Reuters
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Active Member
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- American Immigration Lawyers Assn., Chicago Chapter, Ethics Committee
- Co-Chair
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- Activities: Organize and facility Annual Ethics Conference, Liaison with CLE Committee, National Ethics and UPL Committees, and related responsibilities.
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- Naturalization and Citizenship Requirements, Updated with Phillip Hornik, et. al.
- Annual Conference Materials, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- The Most Compelling and Exigent Circumstances: Humanitarian Parole Requests Outside the Ports of Entry
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- NSEERS Special Registration; Chicago Regulations and Memos, AILA Chicago Chapter CLE
- AILA Chicago Chapter
- Humanitarian Parole and Public Interest Parole - Is This Even Possible?, AILA's 2002 Annual Conference on Immigration Law
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Crimes - 212(h) Waivers of Inadmissibility, The Berlin Wall: Inadmissibility, Waivers and Port of Entry Issues
- American Immigration Lawyers Association - Chicago Chapter
- Mock Naturalization Interview, AILA's 2006 Annual Conference on Immigration Law
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Immigration Legal Ethics, Interactive Legal Ethics 2010: Immigration Practitioners R U Ready?
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (Chicago chapter)
- Q. Should I retain an attorney for travel to Montana due to concerns about ICE and racial profiling?
- A: You ought to be able to travel to any state in the Union. You ought to bring your passport or Citizenship card, not your naturalization certificate, where you have concerns. However, if you are upset with racial profilng, spend you money in States that are less likely to have deputized police officers who lack enough training to be trusted with Federal immigration work. Immigrant friendly states include California and Colorado. Illinois, Oregon, and Washington state, among others, but Wyoming has challenges, even if it is a beautiful place. Vote with your pocket book. As most of us know, Arkansas, Florida, Texas and many of the southern states seem to have more challenges appreciating ... Read More
- Q. How can I stop my ex from harassing me and demanding money?
- A: A custody order has little to do with immigration at his age. Go seek joint custody!
The family based orders go through the county courts, not the Federal court system. You are allowed to seek custody. You are also entitled to visitation. The Inaction is unfortunate. She is allowed to seek alimony or child support.
If she’s trying to improve a future case for non-permanent resident cancellation of removal, then it won’t do that much for her cause. Once your son turns 21 years old, he is no longer considered a child for immigration purposes. As your child approach is 18 years of age, the hardship to him will likely be minimal.
You ought to get to know your son. She ought to get ... Read More
- Q. Customs intercepted benzos shipment from Europe; no charges yet. What to expect?
- A: The Federal Government will take whatever action it deems appropriate, given its priorities, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion. You have the right to remain silent, anything that you say or do can be used against you in court, you have the right to representation from an attorney at any time, if you cannot afford an attorney, then an attorney may be assigned to you free of charge, perhaps, after it is too late to make a difference. It seems that you ought to be protecting yourself at this point by retaining both criminal defense and removal defense attorneys. It is unclear what will happen and if anything happens, when! Good luck.
