Kim Kelly Alabasi

Kim Kelly Alabasi is an accomplished immigration attorney with over two decades of dedicated legal and advocacy experience. Based in Ohio, she represents individuals, families, and corporate clients in a broad spectrum of immigration matters. Her comprehensive practice includes employment-based visas (such as H-1B, seasonal, agricultural, academic, and investor visas), family-based green card petitions, consular processing, naturalization, asylum, and representation before the immigration courts in removal proceedings.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Mrs. Alabasi spent significant time living and working in Mexico as an educator in Puebla and with the non-profit organization IMIFAP in Mexico City. She subsequently served for seven years as a bilingual clinical social worker with the Hispanic Unit of the Center for Families & Children in Cleveland. She earned her Juris Doctor from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University in 2003, having previously earned a Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University and an undergraduate degree from Marquette University. In addition to running her own practice, Alabasi & Associates, for nearly a decade, she serves as Of Counsel to Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. and was selected by the Consulate General of Mexico in Detroit to serve in its Program of Legal Assistance.

Mrs. Alabasi pairs deep legal insight with empathetic, client-focused advocacy. Completely fluent in Spanish, she actively serves her community through legal educational presentations, deferred action workshops, and membership in professional bodies, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association and its ICE Liaison Committee.