Robert's experience in law, business, leadership and global cultures brings a unique perspective to his practice of law and his passion to support the international and immigrant community and their families. His firm represents immigrants and their families in asylum cases and for other relief before the US Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals, and also before the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and the US Department of State in family, student and other speciality visas and applications. The firm has represented immigrants from more than 40 countries worldwide.
A native of California, Robert has lived and served around the world. In his professional legal and business career, he has lived and worked in Madrid, Spain Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico New York City, St. Louis, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Northern Virginia/Washington, DC.
For the past 35 years, Robert has operated on an international basis. He managed legal, sales, service and technical organizations and companies operating in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Venezuela. While living in Monterrey, Mexico and then New York City, Robert was President and CEO of a Mexican/American/Canadian company serving international and immigrant clients throughout the world. He has traveled throughout Europe, North and South America, and also to Russia, China, Egypt, India, Australia, and New Zealand. He founded The Law Offices of Robert K. Lacy in 2016.
Robert is very active in his local Methodist Church, a historic church that serves the hungry and homeless in the community, and which is involved in a yearly mission to Guatemala. He has also been an adjunct professor of law and philosophy at Strayer University and has taught English as a Second Language (ESL).
He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar, the 4th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals and the US Immigration Courts. Member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Fairfax Bar Association.
Many of Robert's clients have hopes of becoming residents and/or citizens of the United States, or to obtain and maintain protected status, such as TPS, DACA, victims of human trafficking or violence. Sometimes the process with USCIS and the Department of State is uneventful, but in other cases there are problems in the case history that we have to overcome. We have helped native citizens from more than 50 countries realize their dreams.
In the past three years, Robert has won Asylum and/or Withholding of Removal in Immigration Court for more than 20 clients from a dozen countries. Clients from El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Tajikistan and Mauritania have won residency, or had their status as permanent residents reinstated, in decisions by an Immigration Judge. The firm currently represents hundreds of clients before the Arlington Immigration Court from all around the world.
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