Founding Attorney

In 2022, he accepted a Supervisory Immigration Services Officer position and became much more involved with the inner workings of the agency. During this time, he was heavily involved in the important humanitarian work of the agency, managing the parole-based work permits for the entire agency. This included presentations to and engagements with senior leadership at the agency, including former Director Ur Jaddou. He received numerous awards as a result, including the DHS Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Team for his work on Streamline Case Processing for USCIS and a Quality Step Increase, given to an extremely small percentage of the top producing managers in the agency.

A second generation American married to a first generation American, immigration is a deeply meaningful part of his life.

He attended and graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2010 and continues to call Kansas City, Missouri home along with his wife and their two children.

Attorney Mike Watkins began his career with USCIS in 2015 at the National Benefits Center as an Immigration Services Officer. His next 7 years were spent adjudicating and working directly on I-485s, I-131s, I-765s, I-140s, and I-290bs. He spent considerable time in the customer service division of the office, learning the ins-and-outs of every forms’ processing requirements. From mentoring over a dozen new officers to helping draft complicated, agency-wide policy documents and answering urgent expedite requests from agency leadership, there’s no part of the immigration process with these forms he’s not familiar with.