Kevin Michael Crabtree

I am an lawyer whose practice focuses on deportation defense, family-based immigration, and humanitarian immigration cases. Certified as a specialist in immigration law by the State Bar of California, I have represented thousans of people in completed immigration matters since 2005. I have experience in cancellation of removal (hardship-based deportation defense) for families with special needs children, LGBT, domestic violence, and child abuse-related asylum applications, the impact of crimes on immigration status, defenses for immigrant crime victims, appellate matters. I have represented individuals in cases ranging from "simple" marriage-based green card applications to federal court litigation involving prolonged detention, delayed immigation applications, and the unlawful denial of immigration and naturaliazation applications. I am a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). I have spoken at several AILA events, including the 2018 AILA Annual Conference, on the topic of family-based immigration, and the 2018 AILA Midwest Regional Conference, on the topic of Aggravated Felonies (a criminal-immigration area). I am fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and conversant in French. Prior to obtaining my law degree from U.C. Hastings in San Francisco, I studied linguistics at U.C. Berkeley and the University of Barcelona. I was drawn to the field of immigration law by my interest in policy issues such as bilingual education and also by my belief that immigration is a civil rights issue. Read Full Bio