About the Author:
SNEHAL BATRA, ESQ. is the Managing Attorney of Raritan, New Jersey office of NPZ Law Group. Ms. Batra has been a practicing attorney licensed in New Jersey since 2001.
Ms. Batra is an Indian-American attorney with a passion for immigration law which derives from being an immigrant herself. Having been born in India and raised in New Jersey, Snehal understands firsthand the many difficulties and challenges that immigrants commonly experience while engaged in the U.S. immigration process. As such, she is eager to help families, businesses and individual immigrants to realize the American dream.
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