Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s Administrative Litigation Task Force and AILA’s Investor (EB-5) Committee. He is special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Division, First Department, New York; active member of the ABA Commission on Immigration and a board member of Volunteers for Legal Services and the New York Immigration Coalition.  Mr. Mehta is the former chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee and Pro Bono Committee; former chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New York City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related issues, including on ethics, and is also an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School.  Mr. Mehta will receive the Edith Lowenstein Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law on June 14, 2018. He received the AILA 2011 Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the immigration field. He has also received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010 and 2016 as well as AILA’s Young Lawyer Award in 1997.  Mr. Mehta is ranked among the most highly regarded lawyers in North America by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2018 and as a Band 1 lawyer in Chambers USA and Chambers Global.