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A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Who Reopened a Case — and a Client’s Freedom — in 25 Days

Inside M.A. Morgan & Associates, the San Antonio immigration attorney practice Michael A. Morgan built in 2014 into a full-service firm handling asylum, detention, and removal-defense cases alongside a smaller criminal and personal injury docket — verified against the State Bar of Texas record, including the one sharply negative review this profile does not omit.

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

M.A. MORGAN & ASSOCIATES — AT A GLANCE

Sources: mamorganlaw.com (firm website), State Bar of Texas Find a Lawyer directory, Avvo, Better Business Bureau, Chamber of Commerce reviews. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice Built Around Reopened Cases

Michael A. Morgan founded the firm in 2014 and has since built what its own materials describe as a full-service immigration practice that has represented clients from more than 40 countries. His State Bar of Texas record lists three reported practice areas — Criminal, Personal Injury Litigation, and Immigration — but the firm’s own marketing, client testimonials, and its Better Business Bureau accreditation (since December 2017) all center overwhelmingly on immigration matters: asylum claims, motions to reopen, and detention-release cases feature most prominently in the firm’s published results.

One case example the firm publicizes captures that focus directly: a client testimonial states that Morgan filed a motion to reopen a case that was granted within 15 days, followed by the client’s release from immigration detention 25 days later. Awesome Attorneys could not independently verify the case-specific timeline through court or agency records, and treats it as the firm’s own claim rather than an independently confirmed result.

THE MODEL

A Mixed-Practice Firm With an Immigration-First Identity

M.A. Morgan & Associates operates from a single San Antonio office on Interstate 10 near the Medical Center area. The State Bar of Texas record lists the firm size as 2 to 5 attorneys. Unlike some of the boutique immigration-only practices in this directory, this firm carries a secondary criminal defense and personal injury caseload alongside its immigration work — a combination the firm frames as intentional overlap, since criminal charges and immigration consequences frequently intersect for noncitizen clients facing both a criminal case and its immigration fallout.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Concentrates

The firm’s stated immigration practice spans asylum applications, deportation and removal-defense proceedings, motions to reopen, release from immigration detention, green card and naturalization petitions, DACA, VAWA self-petitions, U-visas and T-visas for crime and trafficking victims, and I-90 green card renewals. This is a broader humanitarian and defensive immigration docket than many boutique firms in this category attempt, and the firm’s own published results lean heavily toward detention and removal-defense outcomes rather than routine visa processing.

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 publishes several named-client outcome narratives — adjustment of status after marriage to a U.S. citizen, naturalization after prior counsel withdrew days before an interview, and the detention-release case described above — but these are the firm’s own selected success stories rather than an audited or comprehensive results set, and should be read as such.

CLIENT VOICE

Strongly Positive, With One Sharp Negative Disclosed

The available review record for M.A. Morgan & Associates is overwhelmingly positive: Avvo shows a run of five-star reviews, several in Spanish, describing responsive communication and successful outcomes across residency, naturalization, and defense matters. One client wrote that Morgan defended her case successfully “sin casi tener pruebas suficientes” (without hardly enough evidence in her favor). The firm’s own site and Facebook page (4,700-plus likes) reinforce that pattern with additional named-client testimonials.

That said, Awesome Attorneys found one detailed negative review, posted to a Chamber of Commerce business listing, in which a client described a very bad overall experience beginning after the contract and payment were finalized, following an initially positive impression during intake. Awesome Attorneys could not independently corroborate the specifics of that account, and it represents a single reviewer rather than a pattern across multiple platforms — the volume and consistency of positive reviews elsewhere do not match a firm with a broader complaint pattern. It is disclosed here rather than omitted, consistent with this publication’s standing practice of not scrubbing the record.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

Recognition and Community Standing

The firm’s own materials cite recognition as one of The National Advocates’ “Top 40 Under 40” in 2021 and “America’s Top Attorney” in 2020 — both third-party recognition-program listings rather than peer-reviewed bar credentials, and this profile names that distinction directly rather than treating the two categories as equivalent.

RECOGNITION

No Board Certification to Report

Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for Michael A. Morgan. 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 firm’s “40+ years of combined experience” claim reflects the collective experience of its staff and legal team, not a single attorney’s tenure, and this profile does not restate it as an individual credential.

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 and motions to reopen 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 Morgan is admitted to practice before. None of this is legal advice; immigration status and detention matters are high-stakes enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney based on the specific facts of a case.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Detention- and Removal-Focused San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice, With One Caveat on the Record

M.A. Morgan & Associates’ strongest asset is a genuinely deep bench of published detention-release and removal-defense outcomes — the kind of high-stakes, time-sensitive immigration work that many boutique practices in this category do not emphasize. The firm’s willingness to also take criminal and personal injury matters is a structural trade-off worth naming: it is not a pure-play immigration boutique, and prospective clients should understand they are hiring a mixed-practice firm whose reputation and published results center on immigration rather than a firm exclusively dedicated to it. The single sharply negative review found in this research does not match the volume or consistency of the firm’s broader review record, but is disclosed here rather than smoothed over. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to individuals facing detention, removal proceedings, or asylum claims who want a firm with a demonstrated track record in exactly those high-stakes matters — and clients should confirm current fee terms and case-handling expectations directly given the one detailed negative account on record.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio immigration attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (mamorganlaw.com), Michael A. Morgan’s official State Bar of Texas practitioner listing, Avvo reviews, the Better Business Bureau listing, and a Chamber of Commerce business review 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 and case narratives quoted or summarized reflect individual client experiences or the firm’s own selected results, not independently 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 M.A. Morgan & Associates 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.