Johana Pool Narrias
Attorney at Law
Attorney Johana Pool N. is licensed to practice state law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and immigration law nationwide with her Massachusetts license. Johana holds a Master of Laws in the U.S. from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Law Degree from the Andres Bello National University of Chile. She is also a registered lawyer in Chile.
Johana is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Women's Bar Association. Before becoming an immigration attorney, Johana worked as an immigration paralegal in Atlanta, where she helped many clients and their families to obtain their permanent residence card. During law school, Johana worked as a judicial intern at the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Civil Division in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh.
Johana advises and counsels individuals worldwide on options for studying or working in the United States on temporary visas, such as F-1, J-1, H-1B, and O-1 visas, and works with clients on permanent residency through the immigrant petition and green card processes. She also has experience in waivers (pardons) for specific grounds of inadmissibility for immigrants and J-1 visa waivers of the two-year residency requirement for non-immigrants. Johana is also empowering the immigrant community through PAIR by giving presentations "KnowYour Rights" in Spanish.
Johana was born in Chile and immigrated to the United States in 2005. Since then, she understands the immigration process complexities and genuinely cares about immigrants and immigration law. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French and Catalan.