Immigration Attorneys

Attorney Michael J. Liberatore acts in an Of Counsel capacity for FIGUEROA-CONTRERAS LAW GROUP on complex business immigration matters.

Mr. Liberatore graduated in 1980 from Columbia University in New York, New York with a bachelor’s degree in History and a minor in Spanish Literature. He then attended law school at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1983.

Following graduation from law school, Mr. Liberatore was awarded a fellowship from the Organization of American States (OAS) to study environmental law in Brazil. He thereafter spent a short time in California, where he became a member of the California Bar and worked as a securities litigation attorney. In 1986, Mr. Liberatore relocated to São Paulo, Brazil, where he worked as in-house counsel for a Brazilian law firm.

Mr. Liberatore returned to the United States in 1989, relocating to Miami, Florida. Shortly thereafter, in 1990, he established his own law firm. Since that time, Mr. Liberatore has dedicated his practice to business immigration matters.

Mr. Liberatore is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts, and he represents immigration clients in all 50 states and worldwide. He is also registered with the Brazilian Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) as a Foreign Law Consultant in Brazil. Mr. Liberatore is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.

Marie Javier is an attorney at our Miami office and handles full-service U.S. immigration, nationality, and consular law matters. She is licensed in Puerto Rico and practices immigration law across the United States.

A native of the Dominican Republic, Ms. Javier grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1996, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Inter American University in San Juan with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. She received her Juris Doctor (law degree) in 1999 from the Inter American University School of Law.

After graduating from law school, Ms. Javier joined the prestigious San Juan law firm of Cuevas Segarra, where she worked in the areas of commercial litigation and medical malpractice. In 2001, she joined the distinguished litigation team in the Federal Litigations Division of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Justice Department.

Marie Javier developed a stellar reputation for litigating matters involving civil rights violations. In 2002, she joined the tax litigation unit at Ernest and Young in San Juan, where she worked for several years before starting her own law firm in San Juan in 2006.

Since 2006, Ms. Javier has practiced exclusively in the area of U.S. immigration law, with a focus on family-based immigration and business immigration matters. She has a long record of success in extraordinary ability and investor visas.

Ms. Javier appears frequently in the media as a guest commentator, including Noticiero Telemundo’s bi-weekly immigration segment.

Ms. Javier is fluent in English and Spanish.