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A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Whose Team Includes a BIA-Accredited Representative Turned Lawyer

Inside DeLaTorre Law, the San Antonio immigration attorney practice founded by Mayrise DeLaTorre, a Puerto Rico-and-Texas-licensed attorney with two decades of legal experience, alongside attorney Keishla McFarlane, who began as a Board of Immigration Appeals-accredited representative before becoming a licensed attorney.

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

DELATORRE LAW — AT A GLANCE

Sources: mdelatorrelaw.com (firm website), Trustindex/Google reviews. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Team With Two Distinct Paths Into the Field

Mayrise DeLaTorre was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and earned a B.A. in Communications, Publicity, and Public Relations, graduating magna cum laude, before earning her J.D. cum laude from the Interamerican University School of Law. She is licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas and Puerto Rico and admitted to the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, with more than 20 years of legal experience spanning family law, inheritance law, and tort in addition to immigration.

Attorney Keishla McFarlane’s path into the practice is distinctive: she gained full accreditation as a Board of Immigration Appeals-accredited representative in 2017, allowing her to represent individuals before the immigration court before she had a law degree at all. She subsequently attended law school in Puerto Rico beginning in 2019, graduated summa cum laude in 2022, and became a licensed attorney in 2023 — meaning she brought years of direct immigration-court representation experience into her legal education rather than the reverse.

THE MODEL

A Small, Bilingual San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice

DeLaTorre Law operates from a single San Antonio office on Callaghan Road. The firm’s marketing emphasizes a listening, client-centered approach and describes itself as bilingual throughout. McFarlane has appeared in regional media, including a KSAT 12 news segment discussing the impact of ICE arrests during local court hearings — a sign of the firm’s engagement with current, locally relevant immigration enforcement issues.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice Concentrates

The firm’s stated practice covers family-based petitions, deportation and removal defense, affirmative and defensive asylum claims, credible fear interviews, immigration bond hearings, cancellation of removal, naturalization, and I-220A-related relief. The firm’s recent public content has tracked a 2025 Board of Immigration Appeals decision affecting individuals released from detention on I-220A and a 2025 federal immigration registration rule — both signals of active engagement with current, evolving immigration law rather than static marketing copy.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

As with immigration practice generally, there is no jury-verdict or settlement-figure record to report, and Awesome Attorneys did not have access to USCIS or immigration court case-level data. The firm states it has worked with asylum seekers over the past two decades, a claim consistent with DeLaTorre’s stated years of practice.

CLIENT VOICE

Positive, Google-Sourced Reviews

Reviews cited on the firm’s own site, verified by Trustindex as sourced from Google, are consistently positive. One Spanish-language reviewer described a complicated change-of-status case handled with what the reviewer called impeccable performance, diligence, and professionalism. Another described the outcome and process as excellent and stated she would choose the firm again. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a pattern of negative reviews for this firm in the course of this research, though it did not locate an aggregate star rating independent of the firm’s own site.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

Media and Community Engagement

McFarlane’s appearance discussing ICE arrests during local court hearings on KSAT 12, a San Antonio television station, reflects direct engagement with a locally salient immigration enforcement issue. The firm’s blog content addresses practical, current questions — processing-time delays, common immigration myths, and recent federal registration requirements — aimed at prospective clients navigating an evolving legal landscape.

RECOGNITION

No Board Certification to Report

Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for either Mayrise DeLaTorre or Keishla McFarlane. Consistent with this publication’s standing policy, the words “specialist” and “board certified” are reserved for attorneys with documented, independently verified TBLS certification, and are not used here.

THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION BACKDROP

What Texas Residents Should Know

Immigration law is federal, not state, law. Family-based petitions are governed by the Immigration and Nationality Act and adjudicated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, while asylum and removal proceedings run through the federal immigration courts operated by the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, with appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals. San Antonio falls within the jurisdiction of the USCIS San Antonio Field Office and the San Antonio Immigration Court, with further appeals routing through the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. None of this is legal advice; asylum and removal-defense questions are high-stakes 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 an Unusual Depth of Frontline Experience

DeLaTorre Law’s clearest strength is a team combining more than two decades of DeLaTorre’s broader legal experience with McFarlane’s distinctive path through years of BIA-accredited immigration court representation before she ever became a licensed attorney — a genuinely unusual credential combination that suggests hands-on familiarity with immigration court procedure specifically. The honest limitation is that Awesome Attorneys could not locate a large, independently aggregated review base comparable to some other firms in this directory, relying instead on reviews curated on the firm’s own site (even though independently sourced from Google). Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to clients with asylum, removal-defense, or bond-hearing needs specifically, given the team’s demonstrated depth in exactly those areas, as well as family-based petition clients seeking bilingual, client-centered service.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio immigration attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (mdelatorrelaw.com) and Trustindex-verified Google reviews as of August 2026. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to USCIS or immigration court 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.

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE & INDEPENDENCE

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by DeLaTorre Law 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.