Moira Fisher is an attorney licensed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland and has over 25 years of experience in immigration law. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with a bachelor’s degree in history and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore. She also has a master’s degree in Comparative Law (LL.M.) focusing on international human rights law from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
Before joining Jaime Barron, P.C., Ms. Fisher was a supervisory appeals officer for 14 years with the humanitarian division of the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office, where she handled a wide variety of cases, including waivers of inadmissibility; SIJ, VAWA, and U visa petitions; TPS; and citizenship. Earlier in her career, Ms. Fisher practiced immigration law in Miami, Florida, specializing in humanitarian immigration relief, family-based immigration, and deportation defense. She was a supervising attorney at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (now Americans for Immigrant Justice) in their Miami and Homestead offices, where she represented individuals in removal proceedings and immigration detention and also conducted training and community outreach. She then worked at the immigration program at Lutheran Services Florida and at the Immigrant Women Program at Legal Momentum, where she advocated for increased legal protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence and trafficking. From 2004 to 2008, she was an asylum officer with USCIS, first in Miami and later at Asylum Division Headquarters, where she was responsible for quality assurance of credible and reasonable fear determinations
Ms. Fisher was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Maryland. She speaks English, Spanish, French, and German. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and gardening, and she frequently attends live theater and performances of jazz, classical, and other music genres.