Elsie Hui Arias

Elsie Hui Arias is a partner at Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP. She has been certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization since 2007, a designation that is held by a very small percentage of immigration practitioners in California.

Since 2007, Ms. Arias' practice has focused on EB-5 immigration, through which she has successfully represented hundreds of foreign nationals with their I-526 and I-829 petitions based on investment with regional centers or individual businesses. She also provides counsel to regional centers and developers with respect to preparing investment offerings suitable for EB-5 funding for diverse commercial ventures, applying for initial and amended regional center designations (including approval of I-526 exemplar petitions), and ongoing compliance issues.

Ms. Arias also has significant experience in other aspects of U.S. immigration law, including employment- and family-based immigration, waivers of inadmissibility, citizenship and naturalization, and motions/appeals before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has provided pro bono representation to clients referred by nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles, including Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) and Catholic Charities.

During law school, Ms. Arias externed with the Honorable Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also gained valuable experience as a law clerk at the Civil Rights Clinic and Immigration Clinic at UC Davis School of Law, the Employment Law Center in San Francisco, and the Federal Defenders Office in Sacramento, California.