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At a Glance
| Firm | Law Offices of Alice Vacek Aranda, PLLC |
| Offices | 4600 E. Washington St., Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ 85034; also Sedona, AZ (by appointment) |
| Founded | 2009, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis |
| Focus | Family-based immigration, asylum/removal defense, and naturalization, alongside a separate bankruptcy practice |
| Education | J.D., California Western School of Law; graduate degree in Latin American History prior to law school |
| Professional memberships | Immigration Section, State Bar of Arizona; American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) |
Sources: arandalaw.org (firm site), Got.Law, LinkedIn, GreenCardLawyerHub. Compiled August 2026.
Origin
A Personal History of Migration, Then a Career Built From Necessity
Alice Vacek Aranda was born in southern Europe; her father had escaped a Communist regime, and her own immigration to the United States was, per her own account, her third significant cultural relocation. She pursued a graduate degree in Latin American History before attending California Western School of Law. She was admitted to the Arizona Bar in the late 2000s (roughly 17 years of practice as of recent sources, placing admission around 2009) directly into the real estate market crash and financial crisis — with law firms not hiring, she started her own practice, initially built around consumer bankruptcy work before developing her immigration practice, which has become the firm’s primary focus since 2009.
Practice
Family-Based Immigration and Asylum, With a Secondary Bankruptcy Practice
The firm’s stated immigration practice centers on reuniting families separated by borders through family-based visa petitions — including adjustment of status, consular processing, and unlawful-presence waivers — along with asylum as a defense to removal and naturalization/citizenship matters, including for clients with less-than-perfect immigration records. The firm maintains a separate bankruptcy practice alongside its immigration work, a dual focus the attorney’s own materials trace directly to the circumstances of the firm’s 2009 founding.
Track Record
Immigration case outcomes are not typically published as a comparable results table given case-specific confidentiality and the range of relief sought (asylum grants, adjustment approvals, waiver approvals); no independent case-result compilation was located in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Past-Results Disclaimer: Every case is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
No independently attributed third-party client reviews were located for this firm in the directories reviewed for this profile; that reflects a gap in the public record checked, not a claim about the quality of representation provided.
Community
No specific civic or pro bono activity beyond the firm’s direct client practice was independently documented in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Recognition
The firm’s site and third-party listings describe Ms. Aranda as a member of the Immigration Section of the State Bar of Arizona and of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) — genuine professional-association memberships, though this profile did not locate any Arizona Board of Legal Specialization certification for her (Arizona’s BLS program does not currently certify an immigration law specialty), so this profile does not use the word “specialist” to describe her.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.
Immigration law is exclusively federal, governed by the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq.) and adjudicated through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for benefits like family petitions and naturalization, and through the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s immigration courts — including the Phoenix immigration court — for removal and asylum proceedings. Arizona’s proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border means the state’s immigration courts and the federal District of Arizona handle a caseload weighted toward asylum, removal defense, and border-related criminal-immigration matters relative to many other states.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
The Law Offices of Alice Vacek Aranda’s genuine differentiator is a personal history of migration that the attorney’s own materials connect directly to her professional focus, combined with genuine AILA and State Bar immigration-section membership and a presence spanning both metro Phoenix and the Sedona area. The honest caveat: as a solo practitioner splitting focus between immigration and bankruptcy law, case capacity and the depth of subject-matter specialization in either area are inherently narrower than at a firm dedicated exclusively to immigration.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from arandalaw.org (firm site), Got.Law’s attorney profile, LinkedIn, and GreenCardLawyerHub. The Law Offices of Alice Vacek Aranda, PLLC did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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