Zain Farouk Merchant

Zain Farouk Merchant is the founder and principal attorney at Merchant Law, PLLC, bringing well over a decade of dedicated legal experience to clients navigating complex immigration matters. Based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Mr. Merchant represents individuals, families, and businesses across the country in employment- and investment-based immigration, EB-1 Extraordinary Ability petitions, EB-5 investor visas, detained cases, and asylum proceedings.\n\nMr. Merchant completed his undergraduate studies at James Madison College at Michigan State University before earning his Juris Doctor from the Michigan State University College of Law. While pursuing his legal education, he served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Cynthia S. Platzer at the 72nd District Court and expanded his perspective by studying international law and arbitration in London and Greece through the University of Miami School of Law. Following law school, he worked with Walzak, Bales, Lepley & Rubin and the Law Offices of Ricky Malik, P.C., before establishing Merchant Law, PLLC in 2014. In addition to running his private practice, he regularly acts as an immigration law consultant to fellow practitioners and law firms nationwide.\n\nDedicated to rigorous and compassionate client advocacy, Mr. Merchant regularly appears before the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and prepares comprehensive appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). He maintains active involvement in the legal community through memberships in the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.