Gursoy Law Firm: Sheepshead Bay’s Courtroom-First Asylum Practice, Twenty-Six Years On

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The Gursoy Law Firm states its center of gravity without hedging: its primary immigration focus is filing for asylum in Immigration Court. From a single rooted office on Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay — one of Brooklyn’s densest immigrant districts — Umit “Mike” Gursoy has spent twenty-six years building a courtroom-first practice: hundreds of trials and hearings conducted, representation running from the Immigration Court through the Board of Immigration Appeals to the federal district and circuit courts, and a reputation strong enough that other attorneys refer their complicated cases — including those tangled with criminal convictions — to his team.

At a Glance

Firm	Gursoy Law Firm, P.C.
Principal Attorney	Umit “Mike” Gursoy, Esq.
Office	1624 Voorhies Avenue, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY 11235; clients represented in New York, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida
Focus	Immigration Court defense and asylum as the primary concentration — including withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture protection, and cancellation of removal — plus appeals to the BIA and federal courts; family-based residence, K-1 and K-3 visas, VAWA and family-abuse cases, special immigrant juvenile status, adjustment of status, naturalization, and work visas (H-1B, E-1, E-2, L-1)
Credentials	Admitted in New York and New Jersey, 2000 — twenty-six years in each, no misconduct found in either; firm attorneys have contributed to national and international publications and lecture to other lawyers
Review Base	Avvo 4.9 across 238 client reviews; the firm cites a five-star record across 270+ clients
Languages	Multilingual service — Spanish advertised; Russian-language client service evident in the review record
Fee Structure	Free consultation; cash, check, and credit card accepted

Career History

Gursoy was admitted in New York and New Jersey in 2000 and built his Brooklyn practice into a litigation-forward immigration firm over the twenty-six years since — a courtroom formation reflected in the firm’s self-description: hundreds of trials and hearings, countless clients represented in federal and immigration courts, and a docket that other attorneys feed with their most complicated referrals. The firm’s institutional footprint extends beyond its own cases: its attorneys have contributed to national and international publications and regularly lecture and teach other lawyers on legal practice. Both of Gursoy’s bar records are clean across the full quarter century, and the practice publishes its approval notices publicly — an unusual transparency practice in this field.

Practice Concentration

The core is the courtroom: asylum filed and fought in Immigration Court — the firm’s stated primary focus — alongside the full defensive apparatus of withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture protection, and cancellation of removal, carried upward through the Board of Immigration Appeals and into the federal district and circuit courts when needed. The crossover line matters: attorneys rely on the firm for cases complicated by criminal convictions, the terrain where removal defense is hardest. The affirmative practice is complete: family-based permanent residence, K-1 fiancé and K-3 marriage visas, VAWA and family-abuse cases, special immigrant juvenile status for abused and abandoned children, adjustment of status, naturalization, and the work-visa spectrum (H-1B, E-1, E-2, L-1) for individuals and companies nationwide. A general-practice page mentions business-law and other lines within the broader office, which we note per our mixed-practice standard; the firm’s identity, marketing, and record are immigration throughout.

Track Record

The firm characterizes its record as thousands of clients represented across more than twenty-five years, with hundreds of trials and hearings conducted and success across its asylum and family dockets — characterizations we attribute as the firm’s own, since immigration outcomes are not published in ledger form, though the firm does publish actual approval notices on its public social media. This research did not independently verify individual outcomes. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.

Client Voice

The consumer record is deep for a borough practice: 4.9 stars across 238 Avvo reviews — among the largest Avvo bases in this category — with the firm citing 270-plus five-star clients across platforms. The texture is notable: reviewers write in multiple languages, name individual staff members with gratitude, and describe the stress of proceedings managed by a responsive team; the firm’s stated service promise is that clients never have to hunt for information about their cases. An independent editorial review of the firm observes that its public materials emphasize firm-level experience over individual attorney biographies and suggests asking at consultation which attorney will handle a given case — a fair note we pass along. This research did not surface any public disciplinary findings.

Beyond the Courtroom

The firm’s teaching function — lecturing to other lawyers, publishing in professional outlets, and serving as the referral resource for the local bar’s hardest cases — is professional citizenship in institutional form, and its single rooted office in Sheepshead Bay, with Saturday hours and free consultations, anchors serious removal-defense capability inside one of Brooklyn’s major immigrant communities rather than across the river from it.

Recognition

Sorting per our standard: the dual-state quarter-century clean bar records are the foundational credential; the publication and lecturing roles are peer-education credentials; the attorney-referral flow is peer recognition in its most practical form; and the consumer record at 238-review depth is the strongest crowd-sourced evidence available for a borough practice. No marketing-program awards are claimed, and none are attributed. A disclosure we apply to every New York profile: New York State does not operate a board certification program for legal specialties comparable to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, so no New York attorney profile on this site will describe its subject as a state-certified specialist, and this profile attributes no certification to Gursoy.

New York Legal Backdrop

Immigration law is federal, and this firm’s chosen ground — asylum in Immigration Court — is its most demanding arena. Asylum requires proving persecution or a well-founded fear of it on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group, generally filed within one year of arrival — though, as this firm’s own public guidance notes, changed or extraordinary circumstances can excuse later filing. When asylum fails, the fallback ladder matters: withholding of removal carries a higher proof standard but no filing deadline, and Convention Against Torture protection applies regardless of the persecution ground — distinctions that decide cases for applicants with complications. Criminal convictions interact with all of it: certain offenses bar asylum, trigger mandatory detention, or strip relief eligibility, which is why conviction-complicated cases migrate to specialists like this firm. Appeals run from the Immigration Judge to the BIA and then to the Courts of Appeals on strict thirty-day clocks. Removal proceedings remain civil, with no appointed counsel — in the borough courts this firm works, representation is the difference. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed immigration attorney about your situation.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The case for Gursoy Law Firm is courtroom-first capability rooted where the clients live: a quarter-century asylum and removal-defense practice with hundreds of trials behind it, genuine appellate and federal-court reach, the local bar’s trust as a referral destination for conviction-complicated cases, a 238-review consumer record, multilingual service, and a Sheepshead Bay address that makes serious defense accessible to southern Brooklyn’s immigrant communities.

The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: business and employment-based immigration is not the practice’s center of gravity, as an independent review also observes — corporate clients will find deeper benches elsewhere in this directory; the firm’s public materials emphasize collective rather than individual attorney credentials, so prospective clients should confirm case staffing at consultation; the firm’s outcome characterizations are its own; and the broader office’s non-immigration lines are noted above.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Gursoy Law Firm, P.C. Primary sources: the firm’s website (gursoylaw.com), including its home, about, and practice pages (the 25-plus-year experience framing; the asylum-primary-focus statement; the trials-and-hearings record; the BIA and federal-court practice; the publication and lecturing roles; the attorney-referral flow including conviction-complicated cases; the New York, New Jersey, and Miami service area; the free-consultation policy; the approval-notice publication practice; the asylum-deadline guidance cited in the Legal Backdrop). Independent verification: Avvo profile (the 2000 New York and New Jersey admissions; the twenty-six-year, no-misconduct records in both states; the 100% immigration practice concentration in asylum and Immigration Court; the 4.9 rating across 238 reviews including the multilingual client accounts; the free-consultation and payment terms); Yelp listing (the 1624 Voorhies Avenue address and Saturday hours; the work-visa and VAWA practice roster; the named-staff client praise); an independent editorial review (the Sheepshead Bay community context; the firm-level-biography observation and business-immigration note carried into the Assessment); the firm’s five-star client-count citation (attributed as the firm’s own). The federal-law framework in the Legal Backdrop reflects the Immigration and Nationality Act’s public provisions, including the asylum, withholding, and CAT standards.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

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