Rachel Ji-Young Yoo, ESQ.
Partner
Rachel Ji-Young Yoo supports the firm’s Foreign Investment practice, which provides service to U.S. clients investing in North Asian clients seeking to establish a presence in the United States. She is also actively developing the firm’s corporate compliance counsel practice. During her time as an in-house counsel, Rachel advised various developers in connection with the International Business District Development Project in Seoul on one of the project’s global capital investments. Rachel also advised a U.S.-based investor to acquire multiple offices and retail companies that use company-type collective investment vehicles in both the United States and Korea.
Rachel has extensive experience representing clients from the healthcare, K-beauty, and technology sectors in all aspects of U.S. Immigration Laws, including, but not limited to, obtaining temporary and permeant visas for foreign professionals, multi-national executives, investors, entertainers, and religious workers. Rachel also represents individuals in various family-based immigration filings and deportation (defense in removal) proceedings. In addition, Rachel Yoo helps clients navigate complicated status maintenance issues, consular processing of visas, waivers of the foreign residence requirement, and other citizenship matters.
She is not only a native speaker of Korean but also fluent in Japanese. In addition, Rachel serves as a member of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), a non-profit, governmental agency promoting international trade and investment. A distinguished speaker, Rachel has presented on complex immigration issues throughout the country and around the world. She has been recognized in the 2018-2019-2020-2021 editions of New York Metro Super Lawyers – Rising Stars; Marquis Who’s Who in American Law.
Rachel Yoo is a Founder of Yoo Law Group, LLC and an Of-Counsel lawyer of Rawle& Henderson, LLP, the oldest law firm in the USA, in New York.
BAR ADMISSIONS
New York
COURT ADMISSIONS
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
EDUCATION
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL, USA
Sookmyung Women’s University, College of Law, Seoul, Korea
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