Phone: 212-796-8846
Email: sseltzer@klaskolaw.com
Suzanne B. Seltzer, the head of the firm’s New York Office, is known for her extensive representation of universities, hospitals and research institutions and their medical and research personnel in obtaining extraordinary ability and national interest waiver immigrant petitions, O-1 nonimmigrant visas, and waivers of the two-year home country residence requirement. A founding member of Klasko Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP, Suzanne has practiced immigration law since 1993. Her clients include academic institutions from all over the country, as well as scientists, professors, engineers and physicians from around the world.
Since 1995, Suzanne has been active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She currently serves on AILA’s Annual Conference Program Committee, AILA’s USCIS Vermont Service Center Liaison Committee, AILA’s NY Chapter Conference Program Committee, and is in her third year as Co-Chair of AILA - NY District Office/USCIS liaison committee. In addition to her involvement in AILA committees, Suzanne is also Co-Chair, The FMG Taskforce – The Organization of Physician Immigration Lawyers, of which she has been an active member for 10 years, and was recently selected for a two year term as NAFSA's Region X Regulatory Ombudsman.
In addition, Suzanne is also a member of the steering committee of the NY Anti-Trafficking Network, as well as the co-chair of the Legal Subcommittee. In 2002, Suzanne received the Cornerstone Award from the Lawyers Alliance for New York and in 2003, she received the prestigious Samuel E. Klein Pro Bono Award.
A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Suzanne received her law degree from Georgetown University’s Law Center (cum laude).
