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Two San Antonio Immigration Attorneys, Both Children of Immigrant Families

Inside Quintana | Barajas, the San Antonio immigration attorney practice co-founded by Carlos G. Quintana and Jose R. Barajas — both the sons of immigrant parents, both Super Lawyers selectees, running a firm that also handles family law and criminal defense alongside its immigration docket.

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

QUINTANA | BARAJAS — AT A GLANCE

Sources: lawqb.com (firm website), Super Lawyers, Better Business Bureau, FindLaw. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

Two San Antonio Immigration Attorneys, Personally Motivated

Carlos G. Quintana, the son of immigrants, earned a B.A. summa cum laude in political science from the University of New Mexico in 2004, taught English in Madrid, then earned his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City in 2013, where he interned with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and a New York City family court judge. He is licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey in addition to Texas, and is a member of the Federal Bar Association.

Jose R. Barajas was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and has described watching his father’s side of the family face immigration challenges as the motivation behind his career focus on immigration law. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Both partners frame their personal immigrant-family backgrounds as central to the firm’s founding mission rather than incidental biographical detail.

THE MODEL

A Multi-Office San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice

Quintana | Barajas operates from a San Antonio headquarters on San Pedro Avenue, with additional offices in Austin and Houston. The firm has been BBB-accredited since February 2017. Unlike some boutique immigration-only practices in this directory, the firm also maintains active family law and criminal defense practice areas, meaning immigration clients should confirm they are being routed to an attorney with immigration-specific focus rather than the firm’s broader caseload.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice Concentrates

The firm’s immigration practice covers family-based petitions, naturalization and citizenship, adjustment of status and green card applications, removal and deportation defense, asylum, immigration bonds, voluntary departure, and waivers. The firm frames its mission around family unity specifically, a theme that runs through both partners’ personal narratives and the firm’s public materials.

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’s own site does not publish an itemized results table.

CLIENT VOICE

Limited but Positive Available Reviews

Awesome Attorneys located a positive Spanish-language client review naming both attorney Jose Barajas and a paralegal, Jesus Moreno, for their work on a citizenship application, with the reviewer describing the experience as excellent. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a large, independently quantified review base for this firm comparable to some others in this directory, and readers should weigh the limited available review volume accordingly.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

Peer Recognition

Both Carlos G. Quintana and Jose R. Barajas have been named Super Lawyers selectees for immigration law — a peer-nomination and independent-research process distinct from pay-to-play marketing awards. Quintana is a member of the Federal Bar Association; Barajas is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

RECOGNITION

No Board Certification to Report

Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for either Quintana or Barajas. 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 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. Quintana’s additional licensure in New York and New Jersey does not extend to Texas state-court matters, though it has no bearing on his ability to practice federal immigration law from Texas. 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 Multi-Partner Practice With Personal Motivation and a Broader Caseload

Quintana | Barajas’s clearest strength is a genuine two-partner structure where both founders bring personal immigrant-family motivation and independent Super Lawyers recognition to a multi-office South Texas practice. The honest limitation is that the firm is not an immigration-exclusive boutique — it also handles family law and criminal defense — and the available independent review record is thinner than for several other firms in this directory. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to clients who want a multi-office South Texas practice with recognized immigration attorneys, and who are comfortable confirming that their specific matter is routed to the immigration side of a firm that also handles other practice areas.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio immigration attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (lawqb.com), Super Lawyers profiles for both named partners, the Better Business Bureau listing, and FindLaw and other directory listings 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.

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE & INDEPENDENCE

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