Attorney Osvaldo Vargas is the founder of the Vargas Law Firm. He has dedicated his career to advocacy for the rights of immigrants in the courtroom and in the community. Mr. Vargas represents clients with a wide variety of immigration issues and, notably, successfully represents detained and other immigrants with complicated charges of deportation resulting from criminal convictions. He also assists clients with their criminal defense.
Attorney Osvaldo Vargas is fluent in Spanish. He was born and raised in Mexico and immigrated to the United States when he was a teenager. Osvaldo understand the struggle of the immigrant as he has gone through the steps of obtaining legal permanent residency, and later becoming a proud American citizen.
Osvaldo received his Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) degree from Western State College of Law. Osvaldo graduated from California State University Los Angeles and received a Bachelors of Arts (BA) degree in Political Science with a specialization in global politics. At Western State College of Law participated in the immigration clinic helping a client obtain a U-Visa. During Law School Osvaldo studied Human Rights Law in Costa Rica to advocate for the underprivileged. Also during Law School he did an internship with Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Upon graduating and obtaining his license to practice law, he worked for the Gender Rights Asylum Project in which Osvaldo handled numerous cases and obtained excellent results for survivors of persecution, torture and trauma.
Osvaldo is licensed to practice law in the State of California and can practice immigration law in all fifty states. He has been invited to lecture on immigration law topics at various community conferences in the Los Angeles area and surroundings. Osvaldo is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), American Bar Association (ABA), Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), and Mexican American Bar Association (MABA).