Partner
Glaucia Milanez
Glaucia Milanez focuses her practice on U.S. immigration and cross-border matters, representing businesses, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, investors, and families seeking practical solutions to complex immigration challenges.
Professional Profile
Signature Focus
Business Immigration and Global Talent
Glaucia helps U.S. employers and foreign professionals develop immigration strategies that support recruitment, career advancement, business expansion, and long-term residence in the United States. Her work includes employment-based visas and green cards for executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, healthcare workers, religious workers, and individuals with extraordinary ability or work of national importance.
Entrepreneurs, Investors, and International Companies
Drawing on her corporate background, Glaucia advises entrepreneurs, investors, and international companies entering or expanding in the U.S. market. She helps clients connect their immigration strategy with business formation, ownership structure, hiring plans, investment, and future growth.
Family Immigration and Citizenship
Glaucia represents U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and foreign nationals in marriage- and family-based petitions, adjustment of status, consular processing, waivers, and naturalization. She provides direct guidance throughout the process and helps families prepare for legal and procedural issues that may affect their cases.
Complex Immigration and Removal Matters
Glaucia assists clients facing inadmissibility concerns, prior immigration violations, government requests for additional evidence, notices of intent to deny, and removal proceedings. She evaluates the full immigration history, identifies available forms of relief, and develops a strategy based on the client's legal circumstances and long-term objectives.
Areas of Focus
- EB-1 extraordinary ability and multinational manager petitions
- EB-2 National Interest Waiver petitions
- L-1 intracompany transferee and new-office petitions
- E-2 treaty investor visas
- O-1 extraordinary ability visas
- H-1B professional and specialty occupation visas
- H-3 trainee visas
- R-1 religious worker visas and EB-4 petitions
- EB-3 and Schedule A healthcare worker cases
- Employment-based permanent residence
- Business expansion and immigration planning
- Marriage- and family-based immigration
- Adjustment of status and consular processing
- Waivers of inadmissibility
- Naturalization and citizenship
- Removal defense and immigration court proceedings
- Cross-border matters involving the United States and Brazil
Credentials & Recognition
More than 25 years of combined corporate and legal experience
16 years supporting technology, commercial, and cross-border matters at Dell Technologies and Dealerware
LL.M., St. Mary's University School of Law
Juris Doctor, University of Ibirapuera Law School, São Paulo, Brazil
Admitted to practice in Texas, California, and Brazil (OAB/SP)
Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Author of “Green card pela via interna ficou mais difícil — o que muda com a nova política do USCIS,” published by Bem Viver Magazine in June 2026
Acknowledged for legal advising and support in the book Knowledge Management and Leadership in the AI Era: Harnessing Technology for Innovative Organizations, published by World Scientific in 2026
SXSW 2025 panelist on E-2 investor visas, U.S. business formation, and technology contracts
Speaker at AWS Brazil's “Connecting the Americas” event for an audience of more than 390 technology and IoT leaders
Contributor of more than 140 hours of pro bono immigration assistance through American Gateways, Casa Marianella, and other immigrant legal initiatives
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