Rebecca Swaintek-Green, Esq.

Rebecca is the granddaughter of Italian immigrants and the great-granddaughter of Polish immigrants who all came to the United States seeking brighter futures. She works tirelessly so her clients can have the same opportunities that her ancestors enjoyed.

Rebecca attended Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish and Hispanic Cultures. Rebecca studied abroad at IDEA de Oriente in Orizaba, Mexico for one summer and Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla, Spain for one year, leading her to become bilingual in English and Spanish. After college, Rebecca worked as a case manager at a shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children. During this time, she developed a passion for immigration law and transitioned to paralegal work at a boutique immigration firm in Philadelphia where she worked on family-based immigration cases.

Rebecca attended Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude in 2020. While in law school, Rebecca served as the Executive Notes Editor of the Drexel Law Review and published her note: Protecting the Least Among Us: Using the Flores Agreement as a Model for an Alternative to Detention for the Mentally Ill in ICE Custody. She founded the Immigration Law Society and created and organized the Border Rights Project, through which she raised funds to send law students to the United States/Mexico border to provide pro bono legal services for migrants seeking entry. She won the Faculty Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Student for her work on the Border Rights Project. She also worked as a student attorney in the Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic where she won an LPR Cancellation of Removal case at the Philadelphia Immigration Court and filed appeals before the Third and Fifth Circuits and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She also worked as a law clerk in two boutique immigration firms and as a clerk at the York Immigration Court through the Department of Justice Summer Legal Intern Program. 

After graduation, Rebecca entered the Department of Justice Honors Program and worked as an Attorney Advisor at the York and Baltimore Immigration Courts in the Executive Office for Immigration Review. She worked closely with Immigration Judges, advising them on complex cases and drafting judicial decisions. She handled all types of cases before the courts, including: asylum, withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture, bond proceedings, cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, humanitarian relief, and various types of immigration waivers. She focused on detained cases at the intersection of criminal and immigration law, often called “crimmigration” cases, including issues such as crimes involving moral turpitude and aggravated felonies. From there, Rebecca moved to the Office of Chief Counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services where she worked on Form I-130 Visa Petition Appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Her time with the federal government was invaluable as she gained critical insight into how the system works from the inside.

In her free time, Rebecca is an avid reader, musical theater aficionado, and classically trained pianist. She enjoys hiking, board games, and watching the Red Sox, Eagles, and Sixers with her daughter, husband, and dog.

At Griffith Immigration Law, Rebecca is a Senior Associate in the litigation department.