Carl Shusterman

Carl Michael Shusterman is an American Immigration Lawyer. A 1973 Graduate of the UCLA School of Law, he began his career by serving as a General Attorney (Nationality) and Trial Attorney for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service before entering private practice in 1982. While working for the INS, Shusterman started a program where government attorneys volunteered to connect with the immigrant community at evening citizenship classes. Shusterman is the founder of the Law Offices of Carl Shusterman, a 7-attorney boutique law firm located in Los Angeles which specializes in immigration law.

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In 1986 Shusterman was named as a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the California State Bar, Board of Legal Specialization. From 2002 to 2005, he served as a member of the Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Commission (INLAC) which creates and grades the examination administered to candidates wishing to become Certified Specialists in Immigration and Nationality Law in California.

Shusterman is admitted to practice before the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Central District Court of California, Federal District Court, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1988, he was elected President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Southern California chapter. Shusterman was twice elected to AILA's National Board of Governors, serving from 1988 to 1997. He has served as the chairman of numerous AILA committees and speaks at dozens of AILA conferences across North America regarding various aspects of immigration law.

In 2006, Shusterman helped Ira Kurzban establish Immigrants' List, a Political Action Committee that focuses on immigration issues including due process and legalization.

Shusterman’s articles regarding immigration law and procedure have been featured in the National Law Journal, the Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Information Week, Interpreter Releases, Benders Immigration Bulletin, the Christian Science Monitor, Modern Healthcare, the New England Journal of Medicine Career Center, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Business Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal, OT Week and many other publications.

He has been quoted as an authority on immigration law by CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Good Morning America, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, American Public Radio and numerous other media outlets.

Shusterman is a regular speaker at the annual immigration conference of the Federal Bar Association in Memphis Tennessee, the Professionals in Human Resources Association, the University of Texas, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Kaplan and a variety of other organizations including seminars for Congressional immigration staffers, the Practicing Law Institute and the American College of International Physicians.