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Born in New Orleans to Honduran Immigrants, Now a San Antonio Immigration Attorney

Inside Castro Law PLLC, the small San Antonio immigration attorney practice Juan R. Castro built in 2013 around family-based petitions, worker visas, and deportation defense — a firm whose thin public review record this profile treats as a limitation to disclose, not a gap to paper over.

BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS · AUGUST 2026

CASTRO LAW PLLC — AT A GLANCE

Sources: attorneycastro.com (firm website), Yelp, Facebook, Justia, Expertise.com. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Whose Own Family Story Is the Pitch

Juan R. Castro was born in New Orleans to Honduran immigrant parents, a biographical detail his firm places at the center of its own marketing rather than treating as incidental color. He earned a B.S. from LeTourneau University, double-majoring in finance and international business with a minor in economics, and studied abroad in Honduras, Spain, and Austria before earning his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, where he was inducted into the Order of the Barristers — a national advocacy honor society recognizing exceptional oral and written advocacy skills, distinct from a bar-conferred credential but a genuine law-school-level distinction worth naming precisely for what it is.

Castro founded his own firm in 2013 and has practiced immigration and nationality law for more than a decade, according to the firm’s site. He is licensed to practice before the Texas Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). A note on identity: San Antonio has more than one immigration-adjacent practice built around the Castro name — notably a separate criminal-defense practice run by a different attorney, Christopher Castro, at a different downtown address. This profile covers Juan R. Castro’s Castro Law PLLC exclusively, verified through the firm’s own site at attorneycastro.com and its listed office on West Bitters Road.

THE MODEL

A Small, Single-Office San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice

Castro Law PLLC operates from one office — on West Bitters Road in North Central San Antonio — and describes itself as bilingual, with the firm’s own materials noting flexibility on payment arrangements for some services. The firm states it serves clients not just in San Antonio but in Corpus Christi, Laredo, and Austin, though it maintains no physical office in those cities; readers in those markets should treat this as a San Antonio-based practice taking cases regionally, not as a firm with a local office presence there.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Concentrates

The firm’s practice areas, per its own site, span family-based immigration (including I-130 petitions), naturalization and citizenship, worker visas — with a specific, current emphasis on H-2A and H-2B temporary labor certification for employers — and deportation defense, including ICE bond matters. The firm’s recent public-facing content has focused heavily on H-2B employer compliance, including guidance on the FY2026 supplemental visa allocation, suggesting the employer-side worker-visa practice is an active growth area rather than a static service listed and forgotten.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

As with immigration practice generally, there is no jury-verdict or settlement-figure track record to report. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to USCIS case-level data and makes no claim about the firm’s approval rate. The available client-facing evidence is limited in volume: as of this writing, the firm’s Facebook page shows a 100% recommend rate across nine reviews, and scattered Yelp mentions describe positive individual experiences, including one client who described a “complicated” spousal case handled with clear, step-by-step communication. That is a genuinely small sample size for a firm that has operated since 2013, and readers should weigh it accordingly rather than treat a perfect recommend rate on nine reviews as equivalent to a larger firm’s track record.

CLIENT VOICE

Thin but Positive, and Disclosed as Such

The available reviews are uniformly positive but few. One Yelp reviewer described a spousal immigration case as complicated enough to be stressful, crediting Castro and his team with making the process clear at every step. Awesome Attorneys found no negative or critical reviews of Castro Law PLLC in the course of this research, but also did not find a review base large enough to draw firm conclusions about consistency across a broader client population — a limitation worth naming plainly rather than letting a clean record imply more than nine reviews can support.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

Community and Professional Standing

Castro is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Awesome Attorneys did not find independent evidence of Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, or AV Peer Review recognition for Castro as of this writing, and does not attribute any of those to him.

RECOGNITION

No Board Certification to Report

Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for Juan Castro. That is not a mark against a practicing immigration attorney — TBLS certification requires a minimum threshold of years in practice and a formal examination process that many capable practitioners choose not to pursue — but per this publication’s standing policy, the word “specialist” or “board certified” is reserved strictly for attorneys with documented, independently verified TBLS or equivalent certification, and is not used here.

THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION BACKDROP

What Texas Residents Should Know

Immigration law is federal, not state, law. Family-based and employment-based petitions are governed by the Immigration and Nationality Act and adjudicated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, while removal proceedings run through the federal immigration courts operated by the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. San Antonio falls within the jurisdiction of the USCIS San Antonio Field Office and the San Antonio Immigration Court, with appeals routing through the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — the same circuit Castro is licensed to practice before. None of this is legal advice; immigration status questions are consequential enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney based on the specific facts of a case.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Small San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice With a Thin Public Record

Castro Law PLLC’s strongest asset is Juan Castro himself: a founder with a personal immigrant-family narrative, a decade-plus of focused immigration practice, and a currently active employer-side worker-visa practice riding real 2026 policy developments (the FY2026 H-2B supplemental allocation) rather than static marketing copy. The honest limitation is scale and public track record — this is a single-attorney, single-office practice with a review base too small to draw firm conclusions from, and readers comparing it against larger, more heavily reviewed San Antonio immigration practices should weigh that directly. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory before deciding.

This is a firm best suited to individuals and small employers who want direct access to the attorney handling their case, particularly for family-based petitions or H-2A/H-2B sponsorship — not necessarily to clients who want the reassurance of a large public review base or a formally board-certified specialist.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio immigration attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (attorneycastro.com), its Yelp and Facebook business listings, and secondary directory profiles (Justia, Expertise.com, Lawful) as of August 2026. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to USCIS case-level data and makes no claim about the firm’s approval rate. Client reviews quoted or summarized reflect individual client experiences, not verified case outcomes, and the small sample size is disclosed directly in this profile.

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE & INDEPENDENCE

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Castro Law PLLC prior to publication, and its inclusion here does not constitute an endorsement. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements to firms profiled in its directory; sponsorship does not alter the editorial content of an existing profile.