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Stephen Yale-Loehr is co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading immigration law treatise, published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. He also is Professor of Immigration Law Practice at Cornell University Law School, and is of counsel at Miller Mayer, LLP, in Ithaca, New York, where he advises many universities, businesses, and J exchange visitors. He also is a founding member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers. He also founded and was the first president of the Invest In the USA (IIUSA), a trade association of EB-5 immigrant investor regional centers. From 1994-1996, he was a Senior Associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where he co-authored a book proposing a new way to select economic immigrants. He is a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 1981, cum laude, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. In 2001, he received AILA’s Elmer Fried award for excellence in teaching. In 2004, he received AILA’s Edith Lowenstein award for excellence in the practice of immigration law. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, The Chambers Global Guide, New York Super Lawyers, and the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.

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