Cunningham, Glenn Walker

Mr. Piscopo is an officer and principal at NICASTRO PISCOPO, A Professional Law Corporation where he practices Immigration and Nationality Law for more than 19 years.  He is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as Certified Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law.  He also was named to Southern California Super Lawyers® for 2011, 2012 & 2013 (Immigration) by a panel of his peers. Mr. Piscopo is also past Chairman of the Orange County Bar Association’s Immigration Section and American Immigration Lawyers Association (Southern California Chapter) Liaison Officer to the USCIS-Santa Ana Office.

Mr. Piscopo graduated Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA in 1992, and received his Bachelor’s Degree from the College of Staten Island in New York in 1982.  He is admitted to the California, New York and Federal Bar Associations. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and the Immigration Law sections of the Federal, Orange County and Los Angeles County Bar Associations

Mr. Piscopo and his firm handle a wide variety of immigration matters, including family-based and employment-based petitions, EB-5 Investor petitions,  PERM Labor Certifications, H1B and L visa petitions, adjustment of status, naturalization, citizenship, VAWA, U visa and waiver applications, and consular processing.  He appears extensively before the Executive Office of Immigration Review (Immigration Court), the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Administrative Appeals Office.  Mr. Piscopo regularly files and has successfully argued before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit regarding removal and deportation cases.   Mr. Piscopo has personally represented thousands of individuals in immigration matters before the federal and immigration court and at USCIS interviews.

He and his firm are active in many immigrant and minority organizations, including, the Orange County Asian Business Association, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, Minority Business Association, and Mexican-American Bar Association. He is also proud member of and formerly on the Board of Directors of the Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County.  Additionally, Mr. Piscopo was a member of the Orange County Immigration Fraud Task Force.

Mr. Piscopo writes extensively on immigration matters, and his articles have appeared in leading Filipino-American and Hispanic publications.  He has also been interviewed on radio and television and in newspapers discussing immigration issues and problems facing immigrants in the United States and given numerous seminars on immigration laws.  Some of the firms’ cases have been chronicled on CNN and Telemundo, and in the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times.