IBO September Virtual Breakfast Meeting

Tuesday, September 23 2025 at 8:00 AM

Navigating the New Immigration Climate

Guest Speaker John Stahl

Director of Immigration Legal Services, Emerald Isle Immigration Center

Zoom link provided with RSVP confirmation and again on the morning of the meeting.

ABOUT JOHN STAHL:

John A. Stahl, Esq. currently serves as the Director of Immigration Legal Services at the Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC). He oversees the immigration legal services staff at the EIIC Queens and Bronx offices. He joined the EIIC thirty years ago as a part-time citizenship counselor while studying law at St. John’s University in Queens, NY.

After finishing law school, he became a full-time immigration counselor and, when admitted to the New York State Bar, the first staff attorney. He has held the position of Immigration Legal Services Director for the last eighteen years. He also currently works as a part-time immigration legal consultant for the national Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers (CIIC).

A Queens, NY native, he holds a BA in Political Science from Binghamton University.  Prior to heading legal services at EIIC, Stahl was an associate counsel at Mark N. Fish & Associates and has also worked as an immigration counselor at the Hellenic-American Neighborhood Action Committee. John Stahl is a member of the National Immigration Law Project and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), New York Chapter.