Lisa A. Tehlirian

Lisa A. Tehlirian is an accomplished immigration attorney with two decades of legal experience assisting individuals, families, and businesses with complex immigration matters. Based in Troy, Michigan, she is an attorney with Ellis Porter, PLC, where her practice focuses extensively on family-based immigration, inadmissibility and removability issues, and employment-based immigration matters.

Ms. Tehlirian earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000, before earning her Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 2004. Following law school, she was selected for the prestigious U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General's Honors Program, serving as a Judicial Law Clerk and Attorney Advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) at the Detroit Immigration Court. In that role, she analyzed complex immigration questions and drafted judicial opinions for Immigration Judges. Prior to joining Ellis Porter in 2009, she refined her expertise handling family and employment-based petitions in private practice.

Deeply dedicated to her clients, Ms. Tehlirian brings analytical rigor and compassionate advocacy to every case she undertakes. She is an active member of the legal community, holding memberships with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the State Bar of Michigan, the Armenian American Bar Association, and the Women's Bar Association.