Dinesh Shenoy
Associate Attorney
612-339-0517
dshenoy@aronsonimmigration.com
Dinesh Shenoy is an associate attorney with Aronson & Associates PA in Minneapolis, MN, practicing exclusively in the field of immigration law with an emphasis on employment-based cases. Born and raised in New Jersey, he earned his Bachelor degree at Rutgers College in New Jersey with dual majors in History and Physics in 1995. He earned his law degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1999, and was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 2000. As a law student and clerk, he assisted in the post-conviction representation of death row inmates and on discrimination cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Since his admission to the bar, Dinesh has steadily built a reputation as both an expert in immigration law and a mentor to immigration lawyers around the country. He is a regularly invited speaker at AILA Annual Conferences and regional events, speaking on topics including a wide variety of advanced employment-based strategies and law practice management. He has chaired teleconferences on a broad range of immigration issues including adjustment of status, affidavits of support, immigration court practice in Minnesota, and the “Child Status Protection Act.” His publications for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) include the first leading article on the “concurrent filing rule”, and articles on H-1B extensions of status under the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (“AC21”), and H-1Bs for Business Professionals.
In 2003, after just three years of practice, Dinesh won the Sam Williamson Mentor Award, presented by AILA for “Outstanding Efforts and Excellent Counsel to Immigration Attorneys By Providing Mentoring Assistance.” He proudly served on AILA’s 2004-05 Liaison Committee to the Nebraska Service Center (NSC) of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), assisting hundreds of immigration attorneys to resolved issues on employment-based adjustment of status cases and related issues.
As an Associate Attorney with Aronson & Associates, Dinesh works with clients varying in size from large corporations working in the high-tech sectors as well as mining and hearing aid design, to small start-up companies and sole proprietors. His areas of focus include non-immigrant work visas (particularly H-1B Professionals and L-1A Executives and Managers, and Canadians and Mexicans entering under the North American Free Trade Agreement (TN)), and Permanent Residence (“green cards”) based on Labor Certification Applications, and petitions for Multinational Executives or Managers. Dinesh also advises on novel immigration issues including immigration consequences of crime, citizenship laws, and issues of admissibility.
Dinesh lives in Minneapolis with his wife Andrea Hickle, a Continuing Education Specialist with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and their two children, Reena and Gabriel.