Christian is a bilingual Spanish-speaking immigration attorney who supports the Immigration Practice Group’s efforts to help employers strategize, develop and manage customized global mobility programs – including immigrant visas for permanent U.S. resident status and temporary visas for foreign nationals.
Harris Beach Murtha maintains one of the largest health care immigration practices in the country and one of the largest attorney-managed seasonal visa practices in the country. Christian helps our clients hire, transfer and retain the brightest and best non-U.S. talent.
He also works on family and humanitarian immigration matters and is committed to serving the immigrant community and assisting its members achieve a stable future in the United States.
While at UConn Law School, Christian interned at the UConn Law School Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, the Harvard University Immigration and Refugee Clinic, and the Rutgers University Immigrant Rights Clinic, where he worked with a wide variety of immigrants in different forms of humanitarian immigration relief. He also served as a teaching and research assistant in international law, and studied abroad at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in their Latin American Studies program. Following law school, Christian worked in private practice and in the non-profit setting representing clients in family-based and humanitarian immigration cases.