Caridad Villaverde
Attorney
Immigration law in Hudson County, in English and in Spanish.
Caridad was six when her parents brought her to Hudson County, and she translated the family's mail at the kitchen table before she knew what an affidavit was. She went on to law school and has worked with immigrant families ever since.
She takes few enough cases to answer her own phone calls back. Renato, the office's paralegal, is the first voice most people hear; he works in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Caridad works in English and Spanish, and she's a lawyer, not a notario.
Cases she takes
- Family visas
- Green cards and citizenship
- Removal defense
Her bar, her courts, her schooling
Bar admissions
New Jersey
1984
New York
1985
Courts
Immigration courts in New Jersey
Board of Immigration Appeals
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Education
J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law
1983
B.A., Saint Peter's University
1980
Languages
English
Spanish
With clients every day
Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Hudson County Bar Association
The brick and the blue
Where the colors on this site come from.
On the Jersey City waterfront, across the water from Ellis Island, stands the old Central Railroad terminal. Many of the people who were processed on the island crossed to its slips by ferry and boarded trains for the rest of the country. Its red brick, and the slate blue of the harbor in front of it, are the colors of this site.
The office is a few miles inland, on Summit Avenue. People still arrive with a folder of papers and a long way to go. We like to think of the work the way that crossing worked: somebody meets you, tells you where the next train leaves, and goes with you as far as the law allows.
Come and meet her
Bring your questions and the pile of papers. The first meeting is about an hour.