Mayabanza S. Bangudi

Business, U.S. Immigration, & Family Law Attorney

Education:

Juris Doctor, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC;

Bachelors of Arts in English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

Bar Admissions:

Maryland & U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Professional memberships:

American Immigration Lawyers Association, DC Chapter (including MD & VA) Past Chair (2021-22), Member (2010 – present), USCIS National Liaison Committee (2022-23); National Bylaws Committee (2021-24); National Ethics Committee (2017-19);

Maryland State Bar Association, Past Chair, Immigration Law Section (2014-15), Immigration Section Annual Meeting Chair (2012 & 2013), Investor Visa CLE Chair, 2014, and Member (Immigration, Business, & Family Law Sections, 2004 – present);

Civic and Charitable:

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service & Montgomery County Bar Foundation, Family Law Panel Litigator;

Georgetown University Law Center, Alumni Interview Program, Volunteer.

Previous experience:

DLA Piper US LLP, Associate & Summer Associate (Baltimore), Government Controversies Law Clerk (Washington, DC);

Hudson Cook LLP, Associate;

LADO International College, English as a Second Language Instructor;

Presentations and Publications

“Afghan Parolees Legal Needs & Services,” Baltimore Immigration Summit 2023;

“When Immigration and Family Matters Collide,” MD State Bar Ass’n 2018 Annual Bench and Bar Conference, Family and Juvenile Law Section;

“Family Immigration Fundamentals,” MD State Bar Ass’n 2016 Spring Conference;

“Technology Tips Every Solo Must Know,” presented at the MSBA’s “Hanging Out a Shingle” Conference, Spring 2014 and 2015;

Are You (Marketing) Online? Applicable Ethical Rules that You Must Know, Available in AILA-DC Fall Conference Materials (2012);

“Non-compliance with H-1B Rules Shakes Up Prince Georges County Schools – How to Make Sure this Does Not Happen to Your Clients,” Bangudi Law LLC, Available in AILA-DC Fall Conference Materials (2011);

“Foreword: Recognizing Humanity, Achieving International Gender Equality in Labor & Employment,” 6 GEO. J. GENDER L. 147-56 (2005); and The Violence Against Women Act, 4 GEO. J. GENDER & L. 489 (2002) (summarizing the provisions of VAWA I and II, including those provisions for battered immigrant women);

“Compendium of State Certificate of Title Laws,” American Bar Association, (Chapter Author, 2009);

“Why Arguing, ‘But He Touched It Last!’ May No Longer Work in Oregon,” General Motors Minority Dealers Association, Sparkplug Quarterly Newsletter, p. 11 (Spring 2008).

*Attorney Bangudi is licensed to practice in Maryland. Practice outside of MD is limited to Federal Immigration Law.