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Julie Sparks
Pasadena, California

phone (800) 795-8009

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Attorney Profile | Immigration Article

Ms. Sparks joined Reeves & Associates in October 2005 as an associate attorney in the Detention and Removal Defense Department. Ms. Sparks also represents clients seeking family-based immigration benefits and naturalization. Ms. Sparks represents clients before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration Courts, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Sparks focused her practice exclusively in the area of Immigration and Nationality law with an emphasis on nonimmigrant visas and employment-based immigrant visas.

Following a career in teaching, Ms. Sparks decided to obtain a law degree as a means by which to advance the human rights of immigrants in the United States. During law school, her commitment to furthering immigrants' rights grew in the University of Houston Law Center's Immigration Clinic, through which she successfully represented victims of domestic violence and victims of torture seeking political asylum. Ms. Sparks was also an extern at Catholic Charities' Cabrini Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance, a non-profit organization aimed at representing low-income immigrants. There she assisted in the representation of unaccompanied juvenile immigrants in detention. As a volunteer Legal Coordinator for the 2003 Immigrant Workers' Freedom, Ms. Sparks assisted immigrants in joining together in a nation-wide protest and call for meaningful immigration reform to protect the rights of undocumented workers in this country. Ms. Sparks is a recipient of the University of Houston Law Center's Public Interest Fellowship.

Attorney Sparks earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Baylor University in May 1997. She obtained her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Houston Law Center in May 2004, and she was admitted to the Texas State Bar in November 2004. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association.