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Betsy Lawrence
Counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship
House Judiciary Committee
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Betsy Lawrence is Counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship of the House Judiciary Committee.  Prior to this, she served as Director of Government Relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in Washington, DC where she directed AILA’s agency and legislative advocacy efforts surrounding immigration benefits issues with an emphasis on employment-based immigration. Prior to joining AILA in 2008, she was an associate attorney at Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale in San Francisco where she represented clients with respect to all matters involving immigration and nationality law (business, family, asylum, removal defense). She has also served as an editor on several editions of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook, as well as the 2010-11 Edition of AILA’s Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law. She earned her JD from the University of San Francisco and is admitted to practice in California.

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