About Jessica L. Pérez-Salazar
Jessica L. Pérez-Salazar, Esq., is an immigration attorney, author, and legal educator whose academic formation spans multiple jurisdictions and legal traditions.
She earned her Juris Doctor, with honors, from the Inter American University School of Law in Puerto Rico, where she was awarded the prestigious Harvey Nachman Award in recognition of her commitment to clinical legal education. She later completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Georgia School of Law. In 2017, she was admitted to the practice of law in Colombia, completing an academic journey that had been interrupted by her own immigration process.
More recently, she earned a Master's Degree in Higher Education from the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and is expected to complete, in June 2026, a Master's Degree in Human Rights: Systems of Protection from the same institution. Each of these academic pursuits reflects a deliberate response to the evolving demands of her legal practice, as well as her long-term commitment to teaching and scholarly research.
For over a decade, Jessica has practiced continuously in the field of immigration and human rights law in the United States. She began her career as a legal associate at the Caribbean Institute for Human Rights, where she contributed to the preparation of petitions before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic documenting cases of statelessness.
She is the founder and principal attorney of Migra 411, LLC, a Georgia-based law firm dedicated to representing individuals in vulnerable situations facing complex immigration challenges. Her litigation experience includes asylum and removal defense cases across multiple jurisdictions, including Georgia and Florida, as well as appellate advocacy before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
A defining principle guiding her work is the conviction that human dignity is the foundation of the law, not its limit. This principle informs both her litigation strategy and her emerging lines of academic inquiry.
Parallel to her legal practice, Jessica has cultivated a strong commitment to legal education. She has served as a guest lecturer in Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs approved by the Judicial Branch of Puerto Rico and is scheduled to begin teaching in the Ana G. Méndez University System in the 2027-01 academic term, where she will teach Administrative Law and Ethics within the Criminal Justice and Public Affairs program.
She is the author of three major works: The U.S. Asylum System (2025), Ethics in Immigration: 13 Lessons Learned from Lozada-Based Complaints (2026), and U.S. Immigration Law: A Comprehensive Guide in Spanish (2026). To the best of her knowledge, this latter work represents the most comprehensive Spanish-language guide on U.S. immigration law, incorporating Board of Immigration Appeals jurisprudence updated through the first quarter of 2026.
Her scholarship is grounded in the belief that legal knowledge must be accessible to those who need it most, and that Spanish-speaking attorneys should be able to practice law with full authority in their own language.