Naoki Sekiya

Naoki Sekiya is the founder of Sekiya Law Office, and has been practicing immigration and nationality law exclusively since 2004. He has been a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Mr. Sekiya received his Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (Sacramento, CA) in 2004 with concentration in taxation.  He also received honors in the law school’s Immigration Clinic program.  He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in English in 1995 from Chuo University (Tokyo, Japan). Prior to starting his own practice, Mr. Sekiya has worked as an associate immigration attorney for Law Offices of Douglas M. Lehrman (Sacramento, CA) and Law Offices of Michael J. Gurfinkel (Glendale, CA).

Mr. Sekiya's earlier practice in Sacramento focused more on the family side of immigration. His achievements in Sacramento days include having about 150 waiver cases approved for those (mostly Mexican nationals) who could not otherwise have obtained "green card" for unlawful presence, material misrepresentation, and criminal records.  Since he moved (back) to Southern California in 2010, his practice has covered both employment- and family-based immigration but concentrated on Philippine nationals. Mr. Sekiya has maintained the high (over 95%) approval rate for I-601/I-601A waiver cases. 

Mr. Sekiya is licensed to practice in the State of California and can represent administrative immigration cases throughout the United States.  He is also admitted to practice before U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).