The Goldwin team
Partners
Our team of experienced and committed professionals puts its expertise at the service of foreign nationals in France. We provide you with tailored, rigorous legal assistance, defending your rights and simplifying your administrative procedures.
Master Olivia Zahedi is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the Paris and New York bars. Drawing on her international expertise, she specializes in immigration law, assisting clients with immigration procedures, obtaining and renewing residence permits, asylum applications, and appeals against obligations to leave French territory (OQTF).Specializing in the complex issues of international mobility, she also handles cases involving cross-border issues, drawing on her training and qualifications in France and the United States.
With a rigorous yet human approach, Olivia Zahedi does everything in its power to defend the rights and interests of its customers, whether individuals or businesses, by offering solutions tailored to each situation.
Main interventions
- Asylum applications and subsidiary protection: Assisting asylum-seekers with their applications and defending them before the French National Asylum Court (CNDA).
- Administrative regularization: Assistance in obtaining and renewing residence permits (private and family life, employee, student, entrepreneur, etc.).
- Appeals against OQTFs: Challenging obligations to leave French territory and other removal measures.
- Naturalization and acquisition of French nationality: Advice and assistance with naturalization and nationality acquisition procedures.
- Administrative and judicial litigation: Defense before the competent courts in matters of immigration law.
- International mobility: advice to companies on managing cross-border mobility and professional visas.
Training
- Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2013
- Admitted to the New York Bar in 2011
- LLM (Master of Laws) from the University of California, Berkeley
- Graduate of the Master 2 Etudes Bilingues des Droits de l'Europe, Droit français - Droit anglo-américain, Mention Droit des affaires, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Languages
French
English
Marjorie MIAGKOFF joined the firm with a wealth of experience in law firms, administrative bodies and courts, enabling her to practice in the various branches of public law.Her experience in the administrative courts in litigation relating to the entry and residence of foreign nationals has enabled her to acquire a solid grasp of this law, and to familiarize herself with the various problems encountered by foreign nationals in their efforts to obtain legal status.
Main interventions
- Assisting foreign nationals with administrative formalities (visa, residence permit, certificate of nationality, naturalization, etc.).
- Administrative appeal against decisions to refuse residence permits
- Administrative appeal against measures to remove you from French territory (interdiction administrative du territoire (IAT), refusal of entry, obligation de quitter le territoire français (OQTF), expulsion, etc.).
Training
- Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2022
- Training at EFB - Paris Court of Appeal Bar Vocational Training School
- Graduate of the Institut de droit public des affaires (IDPA)
- Master 1 and 2 in Public Business Law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1)
Languages
French
English