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Klari B. Tedrow, JD (she/her/hers)

Owner, Klari B Tedrow, LLC
Tedrow & Myers Immigration Law Group
Birmingham, AL, United States

Klari B. Tedrow
Tedrow & Myers Immigration Law Group

Ms. Tedrow is the owner of the firm, Klari B. Tedrow LLC and co-founder of Tedrow and Myers Immigration Law Group located in Birmingham, AL and dedicated to the practice of immigration and nationality law. She represents a wide variety of domestic and multinational corporations, non-profits, educational institutions, entrepreneurs, professionals, individuals and families in all aspects of business and family-based immigration. Ms. Tedrow‘s practice concentrates on foreign physicians and foreign healthcare workers but includes all aspects of employment and family immigration and naturalization. Ms. Tedrow regularly represents clients before the Citizenship and Immigration Service, US Embassies and Consulates around the world, the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, State Departments of Public Health and other federal and state agencies that sponsor J-1 waivers.

An adjunct professor at The Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, AL from 1999 through 2017, and a frequent speaker on current immigration issues, Ms. Tedrow carefully monitors developments in immigration law and policy and provides her clients with strategic advice concerning both short and long-term immigration alternatives.

Ms. Tedrow served on the National Healthcare Committee in 2014 and chaired the Georgia-Alabama Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association 2012-2013. She has also served on various committees including advocacy for immigration law reform before being elected to the executive board in 2009, as well as a committee formed to advise the Veterans Administration in matters related to hiring foreign medical graduates. Ms. Tedrow authored a chapter in the 2009 AILA Occupational Guidebook on Immigration Options for Nurses and Allied Health Care Professionals and remains active in the International Medical Graduate Task Force. Currently, Ms. Tedrow’s practice concentrates almost exclusively on foreign medical graduates.

Ms. Tedrow has practiced immigration law since 1998 and is a naturalized citizen, originally from Budapest, Hungary. She came to the United States as a refugee whose parents escaped the violent Revolution of 1956 by swimming a large waterway into Austria with two small children. Ms. Tedrow brings a personal and singular interest in immigration to her practice.

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