Siana McLean
Owner, Principal Attorney
Siana J. McLean informs her practice of immigration law with a potent combination of personal and legal experience. Her personal experience is derived from her struggle entering North America as a Jamaican immigrant and eventually securing the right to live, receive a quality education, and work in America.
She understands the struggles and hardships of those wishing to enter the U.S. and Canada on a personal level, and this understanding plays a central role in the way she works with clients and practices immigration law.
Siana’s legal experience stems from countless hours spent aggressively and affordably defending clients regarding a range of immigration issues. She has successfully handled numerous immigration court matters in the United States and appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals which resulted in asylum, protection under the Convention Against Torture, withholding of removal, and cancellation of removal for clients. Siana is especially adept at resolving matters relating to deportation defense, family-based immigration, and naturalization-focused immigration, among other related matters.
Siana has recently begun practicing in Canada and ventures to use the same skills gleaned from her years of practice in the United States to represent her clients in Canada.
Beyond her legal experience, Siana’s strongest trait as an immigration law attorney is her tenacity as she fights for the rights of her clients and refuses to give an inch to opposing counsel. Additionally, just as no two immigration law matters are exactly the same, Siana recognizes that no two legal strategies should be exactly the same for her clients. This is why she works with clients to develop a custom approach to resolve immigration law matters.
Siana’s legal expertise has halted deportation and secured U.S. citizenship for numerous clients. Her legal services are highly accessible as her office is located nearby the U.S./Canadian border and she provides consultations for a minimal cost and affordable flat fees.
Siana currently sits on the board of two not for profit organizations serving immigrant communities, Volunteer Lawyers Project in Buffalo, NY and Immigration ARC in New York City.
Siana McLean is Of Counsel to Richards & Jurusik Immigration Law in the United States and is the Principal attorney at SJ McLean Law Professional Corporation in Ontario, Canada.
When she is not practicing law, she is actively involved in her church community and various ministries. Siana is a director for Tableland Ministries in St. Catharines, Ontario and sits of the Board of Directors for Central Community Church in Niagara on the Lake.
She is also married to her husband Rohan and they have one child, Victoria.
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Education/Certificate
Honors BA – University of Toronto – 2004
Juris Doctor – University at Buffalo – 2010
Certificate of Qualification – National Committee on Accreditation (Canada) - 2017
Admissions
New York – 2011
Western District of New York – 2018
Law Society of Ontario – 2020
Awards
Super Lawyers Rising Star – 2021, 2020
Best Lawyers – Immigration Law – 2021, 2020
Champions for Justice Award – ECBA Volunteer Lawyers Project – 2018
Peter J. Murrett Bro Bono Award – AILA Upstate New York – 2016
Legal Service Award Minority Bar Association of Western New York - 2017