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Anu’s practice focuses on counseling clients on I-9 / E-Verify policies and procedures, defending employers in civil immigration enforcement actions, and representing clients in employment-based immigration matters, including labor certification (PERM) applications and nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petitions. Anu is a member of the AILA National Documentation and Verification Liaison Committee.

During law school, Anu served as an Outside Articles Editor for the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality and as a Student Director for the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, where she represented low-income clients applying for asylum and other immigration benefits.

Anu immigrated to Queens, New York with her family from India at the age of five, where she lived until she began law school in Minnesota. In her spare time, Anu likes going on hikes, traveling, cooking with her mom, and taking pictures of her Terripoo.

Key Practice Experience

Corporate Immigration

  • Counseling on I-9 / E-Verify policies and procedures
  • Defending employers in civil immigration enforcement actions
  • Labor certification (PERM) applications
  • Nonimmigrant petitions, including L-1, E-2, H-1B, TN
  • Immigrant visa petitions
  • Adjustment of status applications

Recognitions and Honors

  • Selected to the Minnesota Rising Stars list (2024-25), published by Super Lawyers

Publications and Presentations

Presentations

  • Hot Topics in Employment Law, Updates on Federal Immigration Policy Changes (Minnesota CLE, December 2025)
  • Immigrant and Employee Rights: Understanding the Anti-Discrimination Provisions Triggered by Form I-9, Panelist (2025 AILA Fall Conference and Webcast)
  • What Employers Should Expect in Regard to Immigration Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration, Panelist (March 2025 NAMWOLF DDLC)
  • The State of I-9 Employment Verification and Compliance (2024 Upper Midwest Immigration Law Conference)
  • I-9 Compliance, New Form I-9, and New Remote Inspection Rule – What All Employment Law Advisors and HR Professionals Need to Know (Minnesota CLE, August 2024)
  • Employer Compliance in Post-Pandemic World (2023 Upper Midwest Immigration Law Conference)
  • Suiting Up for Court: Standing Orders, Webex, E-Filing (Spring 2021 Asylum Conference, Panelist (The Advocates for Human Rights & University of St. Thomas Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services)
  • Breaking Barriers and Building Trust: Lessons in LGBTQ+ Mindfulness (Mitchell Hamline School of Law Intellectual Property Institute and Contreras Edin & Associates, PLLC.,  June 2019)

Publications

  • Co-Author, Employment Authorization under Temporary Protected Status (AILA 2025 Fall Conference Handbook)
  • Co-Author, Summary Guide to Immigration Recordkeeping: The Essentials of I-9 Compliance (Minnesota CLE, August 2024)
  • The Difficulties of Establishing Rape in Qing China, John Jay’s Finest, Vol. 26, May 2011, pp. 100-106

Professional Associations

  • American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
    • Member, National Documentation and Verification Liaison Committee of AILA
    • Member, AILA local Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter
      • USCIS Liaison
  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2022 Pathfinder

Community Involvement

  • Co-chair of 2026 Upper Midwest Immigration Law Conference
  • Co-track Manager (Employment-Based Practice track), 2025 Upper Midwest Immigration Law Conference
  • Pro Bono Attorney (Asylum/humanitarian cases), The Advocates for Human Rights

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