Edward Ramos
Biography
Edward Ramos is a partner with KKTP. His practice focuses on complex cases in administrative immigration agencies and litigating immigration-related cases in the federal courts. He has helped clients overcome denials in a broad range of immigration-related practice areas, including employment-based visa petitions (such as I‑526, I-829, H-1B, and I-140 petitions) and terminations of regional centers in the EB-5 Program, including several class-action lawsuits. He has represented the American Immigration Lawyers Association and immigrants’ rights organizations in several friend-of-the-court briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States. Edward is passionate about immigration law, and he enjoys the challenge of litigating novel and complex issues on behalf of his clients.
Edward is a graduate of Yale Law School and Amherst College. He speaks conversational Japanese and Spanish.
Education
- Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
- J.D. - 2012
- Amherst College
- Bachelor's Degree - 2008
- Major: History
Honors
- Awarded the Stephen J. Massey Prize, "As the Student who best exemplifies, in work on behalf of clients and in other Community Service, the values of the Law School's Clinical Program"
Pro-Bono Activities
- Student Supervisor, Immigration Legal Services Clinic
- Director, Non-Profit Organizations Clinic
PUBLICATIONS
- Does It Really Matter?: Making the Case for a Materiality Requirement in False Claims to U.S. Citizenship Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, University of Miami Law Review (2021)
- Federal Litigation: The Knockout Punch to USCIS’s Overbroad Policy on Redemption Agreements and Call Options?, Regional Center Business Journal (May 9, 2018)
- Defending EB-5 Permanent Residency: Litigation Strategies After an I-829 Petition Denial, Florida Bar Journal (December 2016)
Current Employment Position
- Partner
Past Positions
- Yale Public Interest Fellow
Languages
- Spanish
- Japanese