Stephen Yale-Loehr


Stephen Yale-Loehr is an American law professor and immigration law attorney. Yale-Loehr earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Cornell University in 1977 and 1981, respectively. He was editor-in-chief of the Cornell International Law Journal during his time at the law school. Upon graduating he clerked for Judge Howard G. Munson of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York. Yale-Loehr has been a member of the Cornell Law faculty since 1991.

Career

Yale-Loehr practices U.S. immigration law. He teaches immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and serves as counsel for the firm Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York. From 1986 to 1994 he served as managing and executive editor, respectively, of two immigration law publications: Interpreter Releases Immigration Briefings. For 10 years he co-authored a bi-monthly immigration column for the New York Law Journal. He also founded and was the first executive director of Invest In the US, a trade association for the EB-5 visa Regional Center Program.
Yale-Loehr has frequently testified before Congress relating to EB-5, L-1 and H1-B visas and other immigration related topics. In 2015 and 2016, he was interviewed by news outlets regarding Donald Trump's proposed Muslim immigration ban, his "extreme vetting" proposal, and Melania Trump's past immigration status. Post-election, he has been interviewed by many major news outlets, Marketplace, Univsion, and the NY Daily News regarding the immigration policies and possibilities of the President.
He was also interviewed regarding the United States v. Texas Supreme Court decision in 2016, regarding the constitutionality of President Obama's executive action creating the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program.
Yale Loehr was the 2001 recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Elmer Fried Award for excellence in teaching and the 2004 winner of American Immigration Lawyers Association's Edith Lowenstein Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a at the Migration Policy Institute, and a founding member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers.

Books

He is the co-author of the 20-volume treatise which is considered one of the standard reference works in the field and is often cited in U.S. Supreme Court and other federal court case opinions. His other published books are: