Focus Areas
Examples of Allison’s experience include:
- Preparing employment-based immigration visa petitions
- Advising clients on employment-based nonimmigrant visa processes, including H-1B, O-1, TN, L-1, and E applications and petitions
- Representing healthcare clients in J-1 waiver procedures
- Advising corporate clients on I-9 compliance and enforcement
- Advising on business immigration strategies to ensure workforce retention and continuity
- “Means or Ends? A Comparative Note and Reflection on ‘Imputed Political Opinion’ Asylum in the United States and Europe,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 2018
- Named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, Immigration Law, 2026
- Selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, 2025
Professional Associations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- IMG Taskforce
Education
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2018, summa cum laude
- University of Pittsburgh, M.S.W., 2018
- University of Pittsburgh, B.A., 2012, summa cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

