Cheryl R. David

Cheryl is a graduate of SUNY Albany and received her J.D. degree from Western New England College School of Law in 1995. She has been voted a Superlawyer since 2007; “Women Superlawyer” since 2014, and voted “Best Lawyer” since 2012. Cheryl is a frequent lecturer on issues related to removal and complicated family-based cases, both nationally and internationally.

She was on the Board of Directors of ASISTA from 2016 through June 2022. Previously, she served on the national committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) ICE Committee; the Department of State national committee of AILA from 2018 to 2020. Co-Chair, NY-AILA ICE committee; Member, AILA ICE National Committee, 2016-18; Director, American Immigration Lawyers Association Board of Governors, 2007-2013; Member, Board of Directors of the City Bar Fund of New York – 2007-2013; Chair, National Liaison Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association and Executive Office for Immigration Review, 2010-2012; Chair, National Liaison Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association and U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), 2007-2010, Chair, AILA NY ICE – Detention & Removal Committee, 2007-2009; Chair and Founder, NY AILA Chapter of the juvenile pro-bono committee with the Executive Office for Immigration Review, 2007-2009She has been voted a Super Lawyer since 2007; Women Super Lawyer” since 2014 and voted “Best Lawyer” since 2012.

She is currently on the immigration committee for the Federal Bar Association and is a Board member on “ASISTA”, an organization that centralizes assistance for advocates and attorneys facing complex legal problems in advocating for immigrant survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault

Ms. David has been voted a SuperLawyer since 2007. Recently, she was voted a “Women Superlawyer” in 2014. Since 2012, she has been voted “Best Lawyer” and recently voted the top five “Best Lawyers” in immigration in New York by her peers.

Areas of Practice

• Family and Business Petitions
• Deportation Hearings
• Immigration
• 100% Immigration & Naturalization Law

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts, 1995
• New York, 1996
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit

Education

• State University of New York at Albany

Classes/Seminars

• New York conference – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Prosecutorial Discretion – December, 2012
• New York, PLI – Family Issues in Immigration Cases – November, 2012
• Montreal, Canada – I-601 Waivers – September, 2012
• New York, Practicing Law Institute – Prosecutorial Discretion and Deferred Action – August, 2012
• Nashville, TN – AILA National Conference – EOIR Open Forum; Seeking Bond before the Immigration Court – June, 2012
• Memphis, TN – FBA – LPR Cancellation before the Immigration Judge; EOIR Matters – Updates and Emerging Issues – May, 2012
• AILA NY Chapter – NY ? Perspectives on Prosecutorial Discretion – April, 2012
• NY Immigration Coalition – Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions – March, 2012
• Miami AILA Chapter Meeting – Analyzing Prosecutorial Discretion – March, 2012
• Boston Conference – Prosecutorial Discretion – March, 2012
• Washington DC – Hot Topics EOIR – March, 2012
• Panel Discussion – Cancellation of Removal of Non LPRs – Sponsored by ABA Commission on Immigration – Feb, 2012
• Judge NYU Moot Court Competition – Feb, 2012
• New York Conference – Prosecutorial Discretion – December, 2011
• Westchester County Bar Association – Recent Trends in Arrests and Detention of Criminal Convictions – October, 2011
• PLI – Defending Immigrants in Removal Proceedings – Ethical Issues in Removal Proceedings, NY, August 16, 2010
• AILA Annual Conference – ICE Open Forum, July 2, 2010
• New York AILA Chapter Meeting – “Waivers of Inadmissibility” – June, 2010
• AILA Spring Conference, Transparency, Consistency, and Efficiency – “ICE Enforcement – A Winter Landscape or a Spring Thaw?”, March 26, 2010
• Federal Bar Association – Memphis, Tennessee, May 14, 2010 – May 15, 2010
• “Bond Proceedings and Mandatory Detention: Including the Process to Obtain, Post and get the Bond Money Returned”
• “Nuts and Bold of Waivers of Inadmissibility and Removal”
• “Adjustment of Status & Waivers of Inadmissibility Before USCIS & EOIR”
• Texas Chapter Conference -AILA – “ICE panel”, April 16, 2010
• AILA Spring Conference – “ICE Enforcement – A Winter Landscape or a Spring Thaw?” – Washington DC, March 26, 2010
• Immigration Law: “Getting the Inside Track” – Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, February 26, 2010
• New England Chapter Meeting – “Update on ICE Issues”, February 25, 2010
• 7th Annual AILA New England Immigration Law Conference – “Worksite Enforcement/Compliance” February, 2010
• NY Immigration Coalition – Immigration Consequences of Criminal Dispositions, February 5, 2010
• AILA 2009 Fall Topics Conference – “Convictions, Removability & Relief” – Boston, MA, December 14, 2009
• NY Chapter Conference – “Interagency Panel”, December 1, 2009
• PLI 41st Annual Immigration & Naturalization Institute – “Affidavits of Support, Removal of Conditions, the Child Status Protection Act” – NY, October, 2009
• NY Immigration Coalition – “Waivers and Exceptions” – NY, September, 2009
• AILA Annual Conference – ICE Open Forum – Law Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 2009
• Appellate and Protection Law Division, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security – 2009 Appellate Issues, Litigation and Advocacy Conference “Panel Discussion”, May 6, 2009
• NY Immigration Coalition – “Immigration Consequences of Criminal Behavior” , September 12, 2008
• NY Chapter Meeting – “Representing Juveniles in Immigration Proceedings”, November 12, 2008
• AILA Chapter Conference, Philadelphia, PA – Waivers and Litigation – March, 2008
• New York Immigration Coalition – Spring and Fall, 2008
• AILA Spring Conference – ICE Liaison panel – Discussion Leader with Leaders from the Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Washington DC, 2008
• AILA Annual Conference – ICE Open Forum, 2008
• AILA Fall Fundamentals – Inadmissibility v Removability, Memphis, TN, 2008
• AILA NY Immigration Conference – What Clients Forget to Tell You, and What You Forget to Ask, December 13, 2007
• City Bar – Immigration Law – It Isn’t Just for Immigration Lawyers Anymore, December 4, 2007
• Moon Seminars, NY – Immigration for paralegals – October, 2007
• AILA Fundamentals Conference, Boston, MA – Inadmissibility/Removal – October, 2007
• AILA Annual Conference – Top Non-Business Issues That Can Affect Your Business Client – – Spring, 2007
• Judge for New York University Law School Moot Court Competition February 2006 and February 2007
• AILA Annual Conference – Fundamentals Panel – Inadmissibility v. Removability, 2006
• New York Conference – Speaker – “Marital Disharmony: Immigration Consequences of Separation and Divorce” – December, 2006
• Training at the New York Immigration Coalition – Immigration Consequences of Criminal Dispositions – Spring and Fall, 2006
• Web Seminars for AILA – Inadmissibility v. Removability – fundamentals – October, 2006 “An Introduction to Inadmissibility and Removability for Newer Practitioners”, AILA – Starting Your Own Law Practice – 2005

Honors and Awards

• American Immigration Council Public Service Award, December, 2010
• SuperLawyers, 2011

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York Chapter, Chapter Chair, 2006 – 2007
• Executive Office for Immigration Review/American Immigration Lawyers Association, NY Chapter, Former Co-Chair, Liaison Committee
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, Director, Board of Governors, 2007 – 2013
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, Chair, Immigration & Customs Enforcement – National Committee, 2006 – 2009
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York, Chair, Immigration & Customs Enforcement Liaison Committee
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York, Co-Chair, Pro Bono Committee
• City Bar Fund of New York, Member, Board of Directors
• Immigrants’ List, Founding Member
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York, Chair, Immigration & Customs Enforcement – Detention & Removal
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, Executive Office for Immigration Review, 2009 – 2011
• International Network of Boutique Law Firms, 2019 – Present (Co-chair of the New York Chapter 2023 – 2024)