Eric was born and raised in New York City from a family of immigrants from the Philippines. He has been an immigration lawyer for 17 years practicing immigration law under 4 different Presidents and runs an immigration law practice out of Midtown Manhattan. He has represented and consulted small businesses and large corporations, including publicly traded companies on their immigration issues regarding securing immigration status for high-level and specialized employees. He graduated from the Widener University Delaware Law School in 2007 where now President and then Senator Joe Biden was a professor. He was recruited to work with Mayor Eric Adams’s office to deal with the migrant crisis in New York City. He has also spoken numerous times on various employment-based and family-based immigration topics with the American Immigration Lawyers Association.