Alejandra Chinea Vicente is an associate attorney at Cordero & Associates. She focuses on a variety of immigration areas including family-based immigration, removal and deportation defense, consular processing, U.S. citizenship issues, federal court litigation, and humanitarian relief.
Mrs. Chinea Vicente earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the George Washington University. In 2018, Mrs. Chinea Vicente earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law. During law school, Mrs. Chinea Vicente was a student intern and research assistant in the school’s immigration clinic. There, she researched complex immigration issues, prepared briefs and motions, and represented clients in removal proceedings.
Prior to joining Cordero & Associates, Mrs. Chinea Vicente practiced immigration law as an associate attorney at the Rutgers Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she represented New Jersey’s detained and nondetained immigrants before the immigration courts, USCIS, and Federal Courts as part of the state’s universal representation program, Deportation & Detention Defense Initiative (DDDI). Before that, she served for three years as an Attorney Advisor at the Krome Immigration Court, Executive Office for Immigration Review, through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, providing legal counsel to Immigration Judges in the interpretation of complex areas of the Immigration and Nationality Act and criminal matters.
Mrs. Chinea Vicente is a licensed member of the Florida and D.C. Bar. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.