Immigration Services for Individuals and Families

We are licensed to practice law in federal immigration court.  Immigration is considered one of the most complex areas of law because constantly changing regulations and disparate judicial holdings under similar factual circumstances.  The most important advice we can give you is that you should never try to address your immigration needs alone.  Because we are familiar with certain abuses in the immigration industry, we make it our practice not to take your case unless we are reasonably certain that you qualify for the status you are seeking under present U.S. immigration law.

Reuniting and maintaining family connections is what passionately drives us. You will definitely want to contact us if:

• You'd like to file for permanent status, or adjust for permanent status.
• You need to renew or extend or adjust your present visa status.
• Your U.S. citizen son or daughter has turned 21 and you want your child to file an immigrant petition so that you can become a permanent resident.
• You want to become a permanent resident of the U.S. because you were just married and would like to adjust your status.
• You have experienced violence or threats of violence in your country and cannot return to your country without endangering your life.  
• You have been living in the U.S. illegally and after graduating high school, you've realized you cannot get a Social Security number and continue your education.
• You are about to turn 21 and want to make sure an immigrant petition is filed so that you don't move into a different category, forcing you to sometimes wait over a decade in order to immigrate.
• You have been a victim of a serious violent crime while in the United States and assisted law enforcement to capture and/or prosecute the guilty party.

Business Immigration Assistance

Many times companies will have labor needs requiring skills not available in a local labor pool.  Certain specialized services and/or skill sets are simply not available and employers must look overseas in order to fill their immediate needs.  If your company situation matches one of these scenarios, you would want to contact us to address your legal immigration needs:

• You are a U.S. employer who needs to transfer a key employee from a foreign affiliate to the U.S. division.
• You own a successful business in your country but are worried that this fact makes you a target for extortion and kidnapping and so you'd like to do business in the U.S. instead in order to avoid the violence.
• You are a professional and you feel there is a better future for you and your family in the U.S., both personally and professionally.
• You are an employer unable to hire employees available in the United States capable of meeting your company's specialized professional needs.

Legal Help With Naturalization and Citizenship

If you have been living in the United States as a legal permanent resident for at least five years—three years if you're married to a U.S. citizen—you can apply for U.S. citizenship through naturalization. This is a wonderful opportunity because once you become a naturalized U.S. citizen you will automatically receive all the benefits of citizenship and will no longer need to worry about losing permanent resident status. You will also be able to petition to admit your parents, siblings, and married sons and daughters under our present family immigration laws. Contacting us to address these legal issues on your behalf is the best investment you can make.

Once you have been hurt the last thing that you need is to suffer further injury by choosing the wrong lawyer.

We provide the very best in legal help, never allowing the insurance company to take advantage of your because of your disadvantaged position. Our consultation is free and our fees, other than direct expenses, are based on the results of our efforts on your behalf.

Contracting, buying and selling made easy - Our firm specializes in Real Estate Law.

Our legal staff is highly skilled in handling condo and home closings, as well as negotiating commercial real estate contracts. We provide a turn-key service for buyers, sellers and investors. We make the entire process of buying, selling, or renting real estate a simple and pleasurable process. If you are looking for competent and experienced legal representation capable of getting you the optimal results you deserve, contact González Legal.

Our Managing Attorney, Rev. Mario Gonzalez, has over 20 years of experience as a Senior Pastor.

Mario has served as a nationally appointed U.S. Missionary for the Assemblies of God and has been both a church planter and Presbyter overseeing 67 churches in Hudson, Essex, and Bergen counties in New Jersey. He additionally has built and established an amazing faith-based, not-for-profit performing arts center in Jersey City that draws artists from around the world. Unlike most other attorneys, his ministerial experience gives him unprecedented insight into the legal needs of the local church, denominations, and faith based non-profit organizations. The health and well being of the Church at large, its leadership, and its members deeply matters to us. As senior pastor to one of the most impacting and influential churches in Hudson County, Rev. Gonzalez still has "skin in the game." Your success is of paramount importance to us.

Allow us to help you with: 

1. Incorporating your organization as either a faith-based corporation or a church
2. Board consultation on all legal matters affecting the organization and its members/adherents
3. Setting up your 501-C3
4. Altering your foundational documents
5. Church mergers and dissolutions
6. Church governance and policy review for legal adequacy
7. Zoning board representation on major and minor construction projects
8. Employment and discrimination claims, and much more

Many traffic infractions can lead to higher insurance premiums and government surcharges.  In some cases they may lead to jail time or prevent you from being able to obtain legal residency in the United States, from becoming a legal citizen, or from re-entering the country if you should need to leave.

Having competent legal representation will ultimately save you time and money. You do not want to go to court on your own. Having a competent and experienced lawyer in Traffic Law by your side makes all the difference in the world in terms of outcomes.

We engage in representation for DUI and DWI on a selective basis following an intake interview where we confidentially discuss the circumstances of your particular situation. As we have an outstanding record in this area of law (we have been able to help and/or totally exonerate all of our clients so far), we are morally obligated to see to it that people who we decide to help have already overcome any addition or substance abuse problem that they may have so that the public is not placed at risk.

We specialize in negotiating on your behalf, striving to get you the very best results possible.

Your freedom is your most valuable asset. Our job is to help you retain this asset.

We work hard and fight even harder to make sure that your rights are protected and your freedom is preserved. The most important aspect of hiring us to represent you in a criminal case is the knowledge that we actually care. Our customers aren’t just sources of revenue as they are for other law firms. Our clients are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters – people who are valuable to their loved ones and likewise valuable to us. When facing criminal charges, having an honest and good attorney makes all the difference in the world.

Having decades of experience in dealing with family matters, our firm can help you achieve your goals of protecting your assets and holdings while helping to maintain peace in what can often turn out to be contentious and family-splitting situations. We do so with the highest level of integrity and legal competence.

We have over thirty years of contract experience we can put to work for you.

Our expertise in the manufacturing, retail, and religious sectors serves to give us a well-rounded foundation which allows us to better help you achieve your legal goals. We can help you decide what business form best works for you and then take care of all of the legal steps necessary to establish your firm. We also offer consultation services to your board and can provide legal services in support of your human resources department.

Experience Matters

We are certified in intellectual property law and highly skilled in drawing and negotiating music or art contracts on your behalf while handling all of your trademark and copyright needs. Our principal attorney is the CEO and founder of a premiere non-profit Performing Arts center in Jersey City and is experienced in contract negotiations with both recording artists and fine artists. We are licensed to practice law in state and federal courts in New York and New Jersey and are firmly committed to fight for you, striving to get you the very best results.