The 2026 Lawdragon 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers

We’re honored to introduce The 2026 Lawdragon 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers.

These lawyers bring a vast span of skills and expertise – representing multinational corporations in their global mobility needs, advocating for family-based immigrant applications and specializing in EB-5 for investment and business.

Immigration and migration worldwide has become a fraught issue as nations try to balance ideals with burgeoning needs, hopes and dreams of an ever-more global population. And while the intersection of those helping a global German business ensure its executives can relocate to the U.S. may appear dissimilar to those helping detained immigrations fight removal orders, at Lawdragon we see a commonalty of discussion and purpose. Of the opportunity to recognize the best minds in the immigration and migration world collectively addressing a vital global issue for business, for people, for us all.

Edward Ramos is a partner at Miami’s formidable Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt. He is passionate about immigration advocacy, going to federal court to help clients overcome denials, in employment- and family-based scenarios, among many others. He has also handled national class actions, representing the American Immigration Lawyers Association and immigrants' rights organizations in amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Morgan Bailey is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Mayer Brown. She served for more than 10 years with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, whose 19,000 employees administer the nation’s naturalization and immigration system. She served as special advisor to the Office of the Director on laws, proposed regulations, operations and programs; and previously served as Acting Field Office Director in Kenya, and Field Office Director in China. She joined Mayer Brown in 2021 and advises multinational companies on global mobility and migration.

Mariana Ribeiro is a partner with Gunster in Miami, where she co-leads the Immigration practice group. A native of Brazil, she handles complex employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters, including Investor visas, Professional/Specialized Knowledge visas, Intra-Company Transferee/Multinational Executive or Manager visas, Trainee visas, Extraordinary Ability visas, Labor and Consular Processing. She is also co-chair of the firm’s Women’s Leadership Forum.

In addition to our journalistic research we rely on nominations as well as vetting by peers to select those included. Those denoted with an asterisk are members of our Hall of Fame. Lawdragon has reported on and recognized leaders in Immigration Law since 2007.