Samuel Christensen Law Firm (SC Law) specializes in crafting US visa applications for extraordinary professionals. Our main focus is the O-1 nonimmigrant visa, which allows qualified artists, athletes, scientists, educators, and businesspersons from abroad to work within the US for up to three years. We also have expertise in the EB-1 immigrant visa, a green card classification for extraordinary professionals, as well as marriage-based green card petitions. Collectively, our office has more than 40 years of experience, over which time we have worked with a wide range of unique, singular professionals from diverse industries, including fashion, advertising, architecture, music, film and television, journalism, photography, animation, design, illustration, the fine arts, and everything in between. Whatever your needs may be, we are able to explain the requirements and processes of qualifying and applying for a given visa, working closely with you to ensure that we build the best possible petition.
Meet Our Team
Samuel Christensen / Attorney and Owner
Samuel W Christensen is a graduate of the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law. He is both a member of the New York bar and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He received his undergraduate degree in music from the University of Michigan, where he focused on Musicology and was a member of the Javanese Gamelan ensemble. Since graduation from law school, Mr. Christensen has practiced immigration law and represented artists of all varieties, from traditional fine artists to creative technologists. He is the owner of the Samuel Christensen Law Firm PLLC.
— samuel@sclawnyc.com
Amanda Gillespie / Manager of Extraordinary Ability Cases
Amanda Gillespie has been hunting wild visas and domesticating them for over ten years now, providing extraordinary individuals with useful and interesting visa pets that behave well in airports. Amanda has been featured for her work in immigration in a variety of international publications, including Flair, Foto Magazin, Time Out London, Director Magazine, France-Amerique, and more. In 2013, Amanda and her terrific O-1 team were very pleased to become part of Samuel Christensen Law PLLC. There, she continues to work with truly extraordinary people, helping them to get to where they want to go, all the better to become who they want to be.
— amanda@sclawnyc.com
Justin Muschong / Legal Writer
Justin Muschong is a writer with over seven years of experience in the legal field. After graduating from Michigan State University, he taught English in Japan and wrote for Michael Morse PC in Metro Detroit. He then moved to New York City, where he worked for the Greater New York Hospital Association and Amanda Gillespie, Inc. before joining Samuel Christensen Law Firm. Outside of the firm, Justin is a screenwriter (and occasional producer, director, and actor) with credits on short and feature films that have earned distinction at international festivals. He has also contributed articles to Resource Magazine.
— justin@sclawnyc.com