Pastor & Associates P.C.

Attorney Caridad Pastor

Ms. Caridad Pastor holds a J.D. degree from New York University Law School, and she is a Root-Tilden Snow Scholar. Ms. Pastor is the founder of Pastor & Associates, P.C., and has been serving the international community for over two decades.

Ms. Pastor has worked for and partner with various world-wide recognized organizations before she established her own law firm in Michigan. While Ms. Pastor was the Director of Migration of the Archdiocese of Detroit, she tirelessly lobbied in Washington, D.C. on many issues among them to bring an immigration court to Detroit, Michigan.

Ms. Pastor also worked at the United Nations in New York, where she dealt with international disarmament and human rights issues. She is a former U.S. Attorney’s Office consultant in the District of New Jersey. She also worked in the Civil Rights Division for the City of New York handling the application of the new immigration laws.

Ms. Pastor is well known attorney for fighting on behalf of clients who have been waiting for their green cards or citizenship for over a decade. By filing numerous Mandamus law suits, she has been able to get her clients the green cards in less than a month and U.S. citizenship determinations rapidly. She is a recognized for filing numerous Habeas Corpuses on behalf of detained clients. These legal actions against ICE and other federal immigration agencies have stopped the deportation of our clients and have led to their immediate release from wrongful detention.

Ms. Pastor has been listed in Who’s Who Among Hispanic Americans, Super Lawyers and an Honored Member of the International Executives Guild. Her name appears on the Wall of Tolerance as a founding member of the National Campaign for Tolerance.

Ms. Pastor is currently admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court-District of Columbia, Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Michigan, District of Maryland, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, Eastern District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Michigan, and New York.

She is fluent in Spanish and French and competent in Italian and Portuguese.

Attorney Egi Deromemaj

Ms. Egi Deromemaj holds a J.D. from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Ms. Deromemaj is a native of Albania and emigrated to the United States as a child. She has firsthand experience of the immigration process and therefore feels a link to each and every client that she works with.

Ms. Deromemaj joined the firm in 2012. Ms. Deromemaj specializes in array of employment immigration matters.   She has experience representing a range of clients, from individuals to companies, on a wide variety of employment-based and family-based immigration matters.  She is a litigant that understands the importance of each and every case.  Ms. Deromemaj is currently admitted to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court-Eastern District of Michigan.

Realizing the need for representation in the immigration community she decided to focus her attention on immigration matters. Ms. Deromemaj prides herself in working to advance the interests of immigrants, regardless of their nationalities. Along with her active role in various organizations.

Ms. Deromemaj is fluent in Albanian.

Attorney Mayson Habhab

Ms. Mayson Habhab holds a J.D. from the University Of Detroit Mercy School Of Law, where she graduated in the top 10% of her class, and has over eight years of immigration law experience. She is a first-generation American of Lebanese heritage. Her heritage, in addition to her family’s own immigration narrative, fuels her passion for immigration law.

Ms. Habhab has proficiency in a variety of immigration related matters. She specializes in a plethora of family immigration matters, hardship waivers, E-2 Investment Visas, EB-1 Extraordinary Ability visas for athletes, entertainers, etc., removal defense matters, and affirmative asylum matters, with a focus on Middle-Eastern claims.

Immigrants play a vital role in building communities. Ms. Habhab’s appreciation for this imperative role contributes to her ability to provide customized representation to the clients’ she is privileged to assist. Her compassion for the field is evident in her day-to-day work.

Ms. Habhab is fluent in Arabic.