Lynda S. Zengerle is a partner in Steptoe's Washington office, where she heads the Immigration practice in the International Department. Ms. Zengerle has over three decades of experience representing corporations and individuals in immigration matters. Before joining Steptoe, she managed immigration practices at two other prominent law firms. Her experience includes establishing, developing, and managing full-service practices.

Ms. Zengerle assists individual clients in obtaining immigrant and non-immigrant visas in all categories, and represents non-US citizens in adjudications before immigration judges. She advises international organizations, non-profits, and businesses on the management of individual transfers into and out of the United States. Ms. Zengerle also helps clients comply with the numerous immigration statutes and regulations. Specifically, she represents clients with respect to matters including:

Cross-border movement of executives, managers, and technical personnel;
Audits for compliance with Department of Labor, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Social Security Administration requirements such as Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification;
Applications for permanent residency, naturalization, political asylum, and foreign adoptions;
Waivers from the two-year residency requirement and both non-immigrant and immigrant visas for foreign doctors and nurses to work in the United States;
Litigation before immigration judges, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and federal courts;
Counseling with respect to deemed export matters and changes in the law brought about by The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, The USA Patriot Act of 2001, The Homeland Security Act of 2002, and other legislation; and
Representation of special immigrants such as investors, treaty traders, and outstanding researchers.

Ms. Zengerle’s federal government experience includes service on the staff of Senator Russell B. Long (D.-La.), as an economist for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and as a staff attorney for the Administrative Conference of the United States under now-Justice Antonin Scalia. She twice chaired the Committee on Immigration for the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) and was twice appointed to the ABA’s Coordinating Committee on Immigration. She served for three years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and has been an instructor at the Judge Advocate General’s Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, since 2004. She was also an Adjunct Professor at the George Mason University School of Law.

Ms. Zengerle often provides commentary on immigration law matters to national broadcast and print media including "The Today Show," the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times, and has written for numerous publications including the Michigan Law Review and the ABA Journal. She was the only private-sector attorney invited by the Department of Homeland Security to participate in the forum on visa policies hosted in December 2003 by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.