Eleanor J. Sintjago - Antone, Casagrande & Adwers, P.C

Background & Education

In 2014, Ms. Sintjago completed her law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif. She focused her legal education on immigration and human rights issues. During law school she served as Vice President of the Asylum Law Project and represented immigration clients as a student attorney and student director in the law school’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. She spent a summer volunteering on women’s human rights at the Advocates for Human Rights in Minneapolis and represented the law school at the regional rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competition. She also interned for the pro-bono department of a large law firm in Minneapolis, where she focused on preparing U visa applications for victims of crimes.

After obtaining her law degree, Ms. Sintjago helped Spanish and English speaking clients obtain U-visas and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and advised clients on consular processing for relatives in Mexico who had been granted U.S. visas.

Experience

Since joining our firm in 2015, Ms. Sintjago has represented clients in a wide range of U.S. immigration matters, with a focus on L-1 intra-company transferees, E-visas for individuals and employees of companies investing in the United States, H-2B temporary workers, and other nonimmigrant visas. She has also represented clients in obtaining permanent residency through the PERM Labor Certification process, Multinational Manager petitions, and National Interest Waivers. Family and individual matters she has handled include naturalizations (U.S. citizenship), green card applications for spouses and other family members, hardship waivers, humanitarian parole, and immigration removal defense.

Ms. Sintjago is admitted to practice in Minnesota and is a member of the federal bar for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. She speaks Spanish.

The Law Firm of Antone, Casagrande & Adwers, P.C. specializes in assisting individuals and businesses worldwide with all of their immigration needs including employment visas, obtaining green cards for business and corporate employees and family members, visas for doctors and health care workers, together with waivers for physicians under J visa training program, labor certifications (PERM), national interest waivers, marriage-based green cards, fiancee visas, family immigration preferences, naturalization and citizenship, including medical waivers, asylum, deportation, hardship waivers, voluntary departure and removal. We serve clients in southeast Michigan including the Detroit Metro area, Ann Arbor, and Lansing. With offices in Farmington Hills, MI, we are close to Southfield, Troy, West Bloomfield, Birmingham, Canton, Plymouth, Ann Arbor, Novi, Dearborn, Detroit, Auburn Hills, Warren and Sterling Heights, Michigan. Although the majority of our clients are located in the tri-county area of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb, we also serve clients in nearly every state in the U.S. including Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, New York, California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Washington D.C., Virginia, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and many others, as well as countries around the globe such as Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, and other countries of the United Kingdom (U.K.), France, Germany, Japan, India, Brazil, Italy, China, Belgium, the Philippines, and many other countries in Europe, Asia and South America.

Awards and Accolades

Ms. Eleanor Sintjago received her undergraduate degree from the University of Leeds in the U.K. in 2007, graduating with first class honors in Spanish. She then completed a degree in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, during which she spent three months living and researching in Nicaragua.