Slatus & Slatus: The Two-Generation Family Firm With a Perfect Fifteen-Year Record

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Slatus & Slatus is a family immigration firm in the literal sense — a two-generation practice whose combined experience the firm counts at more than forty-five years — operating from Suite 1303 at 225 West 34th Street, a block from Penn Station. The working half of the name most clients meet is Jeffrey Slatus, whose fifteen-year record pairs a perfect 5.0 across seventy-one Avvo reviews with the fee candor clients volunteer unprompted: upfront about costs, reasonable in the asking, and thorough in the follow-through across family petitions, waivers, asylum, and employment cases.

At a Glance

Firm	Slatus & Slatus, LLP — Immigration Law Firm of NYC (a multi-generation family practice; the firm counts over 45 years of combined immigration experience)
Lead Attorney	Jeffrey C. Slatus, Esq.
Offices	225 West 34th Street, Suite 1303, New York, NY 10122 (Manhattan, near Penn Station); satellite presence in Rockland County (Haverstraw/Spring Valley) serving the wider region
Focus	Family-based immigration (spouses, fiancés, children, parents, siblings) via adjustment of status or consular processing; I-601A provisional waivers; asylum; removal and deportation defense; U visas; employment-based immigration (EB-1, EB-3), H-1B and L-1A visas, and PERM labor certification; a small uncontested-divorce line runs alongside
Credentials	Jeffrey Slatus: New York Bar, 2011 — currently registered, no misconduct found; Avvo Client’s Choice (2019, 2022, 2023) and Top Contributor (2016, 2017)
Review Base	Avvo 5.0 across 71 client reviews; 4.9-star aggregate across 41 reviews elsewhere
Fee Structure	By consultation; virtual consultations available; clients report upfront, reasonable fee quotes

Career History

The Slatus practice is generational: a firm whose combined immigration experience exceeds forty-five years by its own count, with thousands of cases of every type represented and, per the firm, countless families helped to avoid deportation. Jeffrey Slatus, admitted in 2011, carries the Manhattan practice — a fifteen-year record that has accumulated a perfect consumer rating at meaningful volume, repeat platform recognition for client satisfaction, and a published contribution history answering public immigration questions that earned Top Contributor designations. The firm’s stated method is stress reduction through guidance: absorbing as much of the system’s bureaucratic weight as possible so clients can follow the process with confidence.

Practice Concentration

The core is family immigration in full: petitions for spouses, fiancés, children, parents, and siblings; adjustment of status for those eligible to complete the process here; consular processing for those who are not; and — critically — the I-601A provisional waiver practice that lets unlawful-presence cases be resolved before departure rather than gambled abroad. The protective lines run alongside: asylum, U visas for crime victims, and removal defense described by the firm as work it never backs down from. The employment side is genuine rather than nominal: EB-1 and EB-3 immigrant categories, H-1B and L-1A nonimmigrant visas, and PERM labor certification practice before the Department of Labor. A small uncontested-divorce line exists, which we note plainly per our mixed-practice standard — it is a minor fraction of a practice that is otherwise immigration throughout.

Track Record

The firm characterizes its record as thousands of cases across all immigration types with countless deportations avoided — characterizations we attribute as its own, since immigration outcomes are not published in ledger form. The client-reported record supplies the texture: cases handled with detailed answers to every question, fee quotes given upfront and honored, and the organized office operation one reviewer contrasts favorably with other attorneys. 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 excellent at its scale: a perfect 5.0 across seventy-one Avvo reviews — with three Client’s Choice years formalizing the pattern — and 4.9 stars across the aggregated base elsewhere. The recurring themes are candor and organization: fees stated upfront and judged reasonable, questions answered in detail, and processes managed proactively. The overall review volume is moderate relative to this category’s largest practices, which we note plainly. This research did not surface any public disciplinary findings.

Beyond the Courtroom

Jeffrey Slatus’s Top Contributor history — years of published answers to public immigration questions — is a public-education contribution serving people who may never become clients, and the firm’s Rockland County presence extends serious immigration representation to the Hudson Valley communities north of the city, an area thin on such practices.

Recognition

Sorting per our standard: the Avvo Client’s Choice designations (2019, 2022, 2023) are platform-based client-review recognitions, and the Top Contributor designations reflect verified public-education activity; the firm’s editorial-directory placements among the city’s recognized immigration practices are noted as such; and no marketing-program awards are claimed or attributed. The weightiest evidence in this record is the perfect consumer rating sustained across fifteen years. 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 the firm’s attorneys.

New York Legal Backdrop

Immigration law is federal, and this firm’s waiver concentration addresses one of its cruelest structural traps. Immigrants who entered without inspection generally cannot adjust status inside the country; completing their green cards requires consular processing abroad — but departing triggers unlawful-presence bars of three or ten years. The I-601A provisional waiver, a signature line of this practice, resolves that dilemma by adjudicating the hardship waiver before the applicant leaves, converting a years-long family separation risk into a short consular trip. The rest of the family system runs on familiar architecture: preference categories and priority dates for siblings and adult children, immediate-relative treatment for spouses, parents, and minor children of citizens, and the adjustment-versus-consular fork that determines each case’s procedural path. U visas protect crime victims who assist law enforcement; asylum carries its one-year deadline; removal proceedings are civil with no appointed counsel; and on the employment side, PERM’s recruitment sequences and the H-1B lottery run on regulatory clocks. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed immigration attorney about your situation.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The case for Slatus & Slatus is family practice in both senses: generational depth applied to family-immigration casework, genuine waiver and consular-processing sophistication where families face their highest-stakes procedural choices, a perfect fifteen-year consumer record, fee candor clients volunteer repeatedly, and regional reach from Midtown to the Hudson Valley.

The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: the forty-five-year combined-experience figure is the firm’s own count across its generations; the review volume, while flawless in rating, is moderate in scale; the practice includes a small non-immigration line, disclosed above; and this is a compact firm, with the capacity limits that implies for large corporate programs — its strengths run family-side.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Slatus & Slatus, LLP. Primary sources: the firm’s website (immigrationlawyerny.org) and Yelp practice description (the forty-five-year combined-experience figure; the practice-scope roster including I-601A waivers, asylum, removal, H-1B/L-1A, and PERM; the family-petition breadth; the thousands-of-cases and deportation-avoidance characterizations; the stress-reduction service philosophy; Jeffrey Slatus’s signed practice statement). Independent verification: Avvo profile (the 2011 New York admission and currently-registered, no-misconduct status; the practice-area percentages including the small uncontested-divorce line; the 5.0 rating across 71 reviews; the Client’s Choice and Top Contributor designations; the virtual-consultation availability; the Suite 1303 address); Birdeye aggregate (the 4.9-star, 41-review record and the client account quoted in Client Voice); Yelp listing (the 225 West 34th Street address and hours); Facebook and Attorney-at-Law listings (the Rockland County offices); NewYorkLists directory (the editorial-directory recognition and practice characterization); Lawyer.com listing (good standing). The federal-law framework in the Legal Backdrop reflects the Immigration and Nationality Act’s public provisions, including the I-601A provisional waiver regulations.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal-directory publisher. This profile was not paid for by Slatus & Slatus, LLP, and inclusion in our editorial coverage cannot be purchased. Our methodology and editorial standards are applied consistently across all firms we cover.