Charina Garcia

Practice Areas

Corporate Immigration, Technology

Career

Charina P. Garcia is the Strategy and Innovation Partner at WR Immigration and manages the firm’s Northern California offices. She represents and advises many Fortune 500 and start-up companies, as well as individuals on both employment and family-based immigration matters. She presents at many industry conferences on the intersection between law and technology focusing on the firm’s technology – WRapidTM, a centralized, cloud-based technology and Enterprise Resource Planning solutions software powered by Salesforce.

Garcia has been nominated for the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law award under the category Innovators of the Year – Law Firm Individual Finalist and is currently a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).

Her expertise includes:

Representing Fortune 500 and start-up companies in employment immigration matters.

Advising individuals on family-based immigration.

Presenting at industry conferences on law and technology.

Developing and implementing WRapidTM, a centralized, cloud-based technology and Enterprise Resource Planning solutions software powered by Salesforce.

Engaging in significant leadership and advisory roles within professional organizations.

Charina earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. While attending the University of Washington, she argued successfully before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and participated in the Refugee and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a major in Economics and a minor in Asian-American Studies. She is also admitted to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)

Executive Board of the Northern California Chapter (Past)

Vice-Chair of the AILA National Liaison Committee for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service’s California Service Center (Past)

Board of Directors for Filipino Advocates for Justice (Past)

Board of Directors for the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California (FBANC) (Past)

Faculty of Law Review CLE, Sterling Education Services, and Lorman Education Services (Past)