Sherry has been an attorney for 27 years, and has exclusively practiced in the area of immigration law for over 21 years. Her practice focuses on family-based immigration, U.S. citizenship and naturalization, waivers of inadmissibility, I-9 compliance, removal defense, and “crimmigration” (the immigration consequences of criminal convictions).
Prior to private practice, Sherry was a Senior Attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), where she worked for 18 years and, in 2016, received a Director’s Award from Sarah Saldaña, former Director of ICE under President Barack Obama. In 2018, she earned the designation of Global Mobility Specialist with the Worldwide Employee Relocation Council. Sherry is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”) and is the Vice Chair of the Hawaii Chapter of AILA.
Sherry graduated with highest honors from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1993, where
she majored in Economics and minored in Spanish, and UC College of the Law, San Francisco in
1996. She is conversational in Spanish. Sherry lives and works in Honolulu, Hawaii. Find Sherry
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