Allison L. Ouvry
Associate Attorney

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Experience

Ms. Ouvry recently joined Hodkinson Law Group after running her own law firm, DeFrees Law, PLLC, which operated for the last decade in close association with the Austin-based immigration firm, Azarmehr & Associates, P.C.  While she has been working in the field of U.S. immigration law since 2000, she also has experience in the fields of medical malpractice and real estate and contracts law. Her pro bono work includes assistance with the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund and continuing related issues, legal assistance to individuals with HIV/AIDS, and immigration assistance to refugees.

She moved to London in 2009, concentrating her practice on consular processing issues and business-related visa issues including artist visas, exceptional ability, professional worker, intra-company transferee, and investor visas. Ms. Ouvry advises a broad range of individuals and companies, including small, and medium-sized and multinational corporations, individual investors, scientists, businesspersons and artists with exceptional ability, as well as family-based visa applicants.

Memberships and Affiliations

• American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2005 – Present
• 2011-2012 New Members Committee, AILA Rome District Chapter
• American Women Lawyers in London 2011 – Present
• London Library – 2009 to Present

Publications

“Healthcare Immigration,” Business Immigration Law: Strategies For Employing Foreign Nationals, edited by Rodney A. Malpert and Amanda Petersen. September 2010.

Bar Admission

Texas, 1996
New York, 2003

Court Admission

First Appellate District, New York
Supreme Court of Texas

Education

• J.D. The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Austin, TX, USA, 1996
• B.A. in English Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, 1993
• Junior Year Abroad, L’Universite de Grendoble, Grenoble, France 1991

Languages

French
English