As an Associate with Teplen & Associates since 2006, she has successfully assisted hundreds of clients in obtaining training and professional visas, investor and treaty-trader visas, extraordinary ability visas and green cards, family-based green cards, labor certifications and employment-based green cards, national interest waivers, citizenship, asylum, and relief from deportation and removal. Ms. Hargis advocates for clients in all stages of their cases, regularly appearing in Immigration Court and representing clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Ms. Hargis received her Bachelor of the Arts Degree from Vassar College in 2003, majoring in political science and international economics. She received her Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2006, with coursework concentrated on advanced issues in immigration law, international law and civil rights.