What You Get With A Q-1 Visa Q 1 Visa This non-immigrant visa only allows an individual to participate in the activities allowed by the visa. But the individual’s immediate family members can come to the United States under a Q-3 visa status. The immediate family members are the spouse and unmarried children under 21 years. A Q-1 visa lasts as long as the cultural exchange program lasts but not more than 15 months. You can apply for an extension if your Q-1 visa is only valid for less than 15 months. But the extension must not result in a period of more than 15 months if added to the original number of months you already spent in the United States. For example, you can only get an extension of 7 months or less if you already spent 8 months in the United States. Individuals who had a 15-month Q-1 visa cannot receive an extension once the 15 months expire. Instead, once the 15 months expire they have to leave the U.S. within 30 days. They are allowed to apply for a new Q-1 visa after staying out of the USA for one year.

OUR TEAM MEET THE ATTORNEYS & STAFF AT BROOKS LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS OUR TEAM Arinda Brooks (Founder) Jennifer Gesualdi (Worker’s Compensation Department Head) Albert Ngo (Chief Operating Officer & Head of Personal Injury) Matthew Gonnella (Head of Immigration) Ale Marroquin (Director Of Operations) James Duphily (Associate) Layane Braga (Paralegal) Ana Brasil (Paralegal) Jacqueline Santana (Paralegal) Miguel Cortez (Paralegal) Camila Canazaro (Paralegal) Mariana Coutinho (Paralegal) Ana Gomez (Paralegal) Raquel Collado (Paralegal) Rafael Rivera (Paralegal) Adriana Monzon (Client Connection Specialist) Maria Cerrillo (Immigration Paralegal) Renato Braga (Finance Coordinator) Ronaldo Felicio (Director Of Marketing) Rebecca DeMelo (Paralegal) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND AWARDS Contact Us At 617-996-8482 Today. We Offer 100% Free Consultations For All Personal Injury And Disability Matters. SUBMIT Thanks for submitting! Security Question: What is 7 + 3? How can we help you? Are you a new client? Email Phone Last name First name Fill In A Form Below WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN

MEET ALBERT NGO CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT BROOKS LAW Albert Ngo Chief Operating Officer & Head of Personal Injury Albert is from Wyoming, Michigan, a very small town where his parents owned a small, family-owned Chinese restaurant. Being exposed to business very early on in his life, Albert always had an interest in business and entrepreneurship. In high school, he started forming what would later become a successful on-demand iPhone repair company, A&E Fixit. ​ Albert would later attend Michigan State University with a major in Political Science. He interned at the Michigan House of Representatives while co-managing A&E Fixit, which was later accepted into the MSU Hatch, a student entrepreneurship consortium in Michigan State. ​ Albert graduated from Michigan State University in 2017 and was later accepted to Boston College Law School as a J.D. candidate. He was excited to leave his small-town life to try studying, working and living in a big city. ​ Albert went on to get a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2020. At Boston College Law School, Albert got a taste of various fields of law. He gained experience in trademark and IP law while working at a start-up developing a dating app for dog lovers, gained public interest legal experience working for Community Legal Aid and Greater Boston Legal Services while serving his Cantonese Chinese community, and clerked at the Law Offices of Robert W. Joyce in Newton, MA, gaining experience in real estate and trusts & estates law. He also briefly worked for Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster as a legal intern in the tax department prior to the pandemic. Before taking the bar exam, he partnered with another BC Law graduate to create Lawwly.com , a centralized database of free legal resources and tools aimed at lawyers and law students. ​ After passing the bar exam on his first try during the pandemic, Albert recently joined Brooks Law as a newly minted attorney. He one day hopes to use his Cantonese-speaking language skills to empower and serve the Cantonese Chinese community in Boston. ​ “It is my goal at Brooks Law to build a strong reputation of service for the Cantonese Chinese community comparable to the stellar track record that Brooks Law currently enjoys with the Spanish, Brazilian, and Portuguese-speaking communities in Boston.” ​ His focus is on personal injury law and is looking to expand his practice to worker’s compensation, SSD, and any other field of law where he can gain valuable experience in. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND AWARDS Contact Us At 617-996-8482 Today. We Offer 100% Free Consultations For All Personal Injury And Disability Matters. SUBMIT Thanks for submitting! Security Question: What is 7 + 3? How can we help you? Are you a new client? Email Phone Last name First name Fill In A Form Below WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN

MEET MATTHEW GONNELLA IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT HEAD AT BROOKS LAW Matthew Gonnella Immigration Department Head The son of a single mother of four children from Syracuse, New York, Matthew Gonnella focuses his practice on representing immigrants and refugees in asylum, special immigrant juvenile, crime victims (U-Visa), and human trafficking cases (T-Visa). Gonnella also represents people in family based immigration such as marriage petitions, naturalization applications, and waivers. Attorney Gonnella graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2015 with a dual Bachelors in International Relations and Spanish and a French Minor and was a four year member of the school’s varsity cross country team. Immediately after graduating from Saint Anselm, Gonnella attended Suffolk University Law School and graduated in 2018. Gonnella was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar the same year. Gonnella has a demonstrated track record of success representing asylum seekers, special immigrant juveniles, and victims of crimes and human trafficking having secured futures in the United States for dozens of individuals and families. Currently, he represents an individual affected by the Martha’s Vineyard migrant crisis. Attorney Gonnella is committed to delivering the best possible advocacy for anyone trying to navigate their immigration process, whether you are facing deportation or applying for citizenship, we are here to help and guide you through the process. Gonnella currently lives in Cambridge and is usually training for a marathon in his spare time. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND AWARDS Contact Us At 617-996-8482 Today. We Offer 100% Free Consultations For All Personal Injury And Disability Matters. SUBMIT Thanks for submitting! Security Question: What is 7 + 3? How can we help you? Are you a new client? Email Phone Last name First name Fill In A Form Below WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN