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);

Ms. Bangudi is one of only a handful of attorneys to have chaired both the Maryland, DC, and Virginia chapters of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Immigration Section of the Maryland State Bar.

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.