Austin Immigration Lawyer Paul Parsons – Experienced Immigration Lawyer in Austin Texas USA

Voted as One of the Best Immigration Lawyers in Austin, TX

About Our Firm

Our Austin immigration law firm specializes on representing U.S. citizens seeking permanent resident status for their spouses, parents, and children and on seeking U.S. citizenship (naturalization) for people who already hold green cards. We often handle cases to remove two year “conditional” limits from green cards obtained through marriage. We frequently represent applicants who need to renew or replace expiring, lost, or stolen green cards. Other family sponsored matters we handle include adjustment of status, consular processing for relatives needing green card interviews at U.S. consulates abroad, K-1 fiancée visas, and reentry permits for green card holders needing to temporarily reside/work overseas. We obtain temporary work permits (“EADs”) and travel permits (“advance paroles”) for our adjustment of status clients. We also represent many DACA recipients to seek renewals.

At this time our firm is not handling visitor, student, H-1B, H-2, E-1, E-2 treaty investor/trader visas, EB-5 immigrant investor cases, L-1, O-1 nonimmigrant visas, asylum, or removal (deportation) defense.

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Our Practice Areas

We want to help YOU with your immigration needs.

Visas

We represent spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens (over age 21) seeking immigrant (“green card”) status for relatives. We also represent U.S. citizens seeking K-1 fiancée nonimmigrant visas.

Green Card Status

We represent spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens (over age 21) seeking immigrant (“green card”) status for relatives.

Work Visas

We seek temporary work permits (“EADs”) & temporary foreign travel permits (“Advance Paroles”) as part as their relatives green card cases.

DACA

We are representing DACA holders who need to seek another two year work permit (“EAD”) to renew that status.

Citizenship

-Most people become U.S. citizens by: Birth within the United States, birth abroad to a U.S. citizen parent, or naturalization within the U.S. after first having immigrated. Additionally, any child under the age of 18 with green card status who is residing in the custody of a biological parent who is a U.S. citizen will also acquire U.S. citizenship due to the Child Citizenship Act (CCA) passed by Congress in 2000. A person may be eligible for naturalization if he/she has resided in the United States for at least 5 years as a permanent resident (or 3 years if married to and living with a U.S. citizen spouse).

Awards & Recognitions

Super Lawyers- 20 years

Paul Parsons has been honored to have been recognized in the immigration field as a Texas Super Lawyer for the past 20 years. Super Lawyers recognizes attorneys who have “distinguished themselves in their legal practice and professional accomplishments.”

Chambers and Partners

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Ranked by Chambers USA for 2024. Paul Parsons has been ranked in the Immigration field by Chambers USA for the past 19 years.

Best Lawyers 2025 edition

Paul Parsons P.C. has received Tier 1 recognition in the 2025 Edition of the “Best Law Firms”. Tier 1 recognition is reserved for the highest scoring law firms during the annual “Best Law Firms” review process.

Sam Williamson Memorial Award

“For excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law.” Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

AILA’s National Pro Bono Award

Efforts to provide pro bono representation.

Outstanding Community Service Award

Paul received this award from the Austin Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

How It Works

to Contact please call us at (512) 477-7887
or email us at parsons@immigrate-usa.com

Consultation

To schedule a consultation at our firm please contact us to see if we might be able to help with your immigration or citizenship matter.

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Once we activate a case we keep our clients informed each step along their immigration or citizenship pathway.

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Where is our office?

704 Rio Grande, Austin, TX 78701
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What Our Clients Say

We are always grateful for the opportunity to serve our clients. We LOVE hearing for each and everyone of you when we make your day a little bit better! Thank you for the words of support.

Latest Videos

Path to Citizenship – Spectrum News interview with Immigration Lawyer Paul Parsons Sept 5 2023

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Beware of ICE! Today is bittersweet. This marks 48 years that I have gotten to be an immigration lawyer. It has never been this stressful & aggravating. This morning one of our clients who has been working construction jobs in Central Texas for over 25 years was detained by ICE. He’s the father of 3 U.S. citizen children. Never arrested or charged with any crime. Pays all his taxes. We have a pending green card case for him & have only been waiting for the USCIS to finish processing our case. Now we are having to deal with ICE & seek a bond for his release. For 60 years they didn’t detain the parent of a U.S. citizen (over age 21) with a pending green card case. Sadly, this changed with the current Administration. I’m not ever planning to retire or give up the fight. … See MoreSee Less

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You Paul, are a Patriot. 👏👏👏

Paul, thank you for what you're doing for others. God has got to answer our prayers.

We are so proud of you you are what a great lawyer is that does not give up on no one

Thank you for doing what you do!

Thank you Mr Parsons. ❤️Thanks for all you do!!!

Thank you for your good work. I pray that God strengthens you and gives you continued health for the long battle ahead.

Appreciate you

Thank you for defending human rights and justice.

Keep up the good fight Paul – we are all with you!

Bless you, Paul, for all you do 🙏

Thank you Paul for your courage and service to our Constitution.

Paul, thank you for all you do for others. We won’t give up !

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Even though this past year has been stressful for immigration lawyers and our clients, I love moments like this. Ruben Guerrero was born and raised in Mexico City & his wife, Magdalena Rodriguez, in the Mexican state of Michoacan. They have been working hard, paying taxes & raising their daughter in Texas for over 2 decades. Just now I got to hand them their newly approved green cards. They no longer need to worry about ICE & can finally visit relatives in Mexico they haven’t been able to see for more than 20 years. Our country continues to benefit from hard working immigrants like Ruben & Magdalena. 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 … See MoreSee Less

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Thank you Paul for helping these precious people

Congratulations to you both and May God bless you

Excellent Paul! Congratulations!

Sweet story. Such an opportunity to rejoice and celebrate a key milestone in their lives.

how amazing!!! THANK YOU to all of our immigrants and Paul for making America great 💝 felicidades a los dos! 🎉🎊🙌

What a joyful day for them! I can only imagine the relief they must feel.

Congrats! Thank you Paul for helping them. They will make America better.

Way to go Paul…

Thank you!

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You might have heard about the habeas corpus actions seeking the release of 5 year old Liam and his father who are detained by ICE here in Texas. Federal District Court Judge Fred Biery has issued this blistering decision in San Antonio ordering their release:

"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. This Court and others regularly send undocumented people to prison and orders them deported but do so by proper legal procedures.
Ex parte Bollman, 8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 75 (1807); Sir William W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of 1 England (1765-1769); see also Magna Carta, Article 39. Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were:
1. "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People."
2. "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.”
3. "For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us."
4. "He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our Legislatures."
"We the people" are hearing echos of that history.
And then there is that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and persons or things to be seized. U.S. CONST. amend. IV.
Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this
administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED." … See MoreSee Less