Meg Hobbins

Career

With more than 18 years of experience, Meg Hobbins is a seasoned immigration and international human rights attorney who focuses on resolving complex U.S. immigration issues and politically sensitive global matters. She is nationally recognized for her success in challenging INTERPOL Red Notices and restoring U.S. travel privileges for individuals whose visas have been delayed, revoked, or denied—often due to politically motivated allegations or erroneous derogatory information.

Meg represents a diverse and global client base that includes ultra-high-net-worth entrepreneurs, current and former government officials, international organization employees, academics, and human rights advocates. She is known for her high-stakes legal strategies, successfully removing Red Notices, restoring U.S. travel and immigration status, and securing key benefits for clients facing intense scrutiny or persecution abroad.

Her recent work includes:

Representing a prominent entrepreneur targeted in a multi-million-dollar extortion scheme orchestrated by high-level officials in his home country. Over a three year period, Meg blocked multiple Red Notices, secured lawful status for the entrepreneur’s family, and obtained the release of his son from U.S. immigration detention—ultimately demonstrating the political motivations behind the charges and achieving dismissal of removal proceedings.

Representing a senior government official whistle blower who was charged with the billion-dollar fraud that he exposed after a new administration came into power. Through an expedited, preemptive INTERPOL filing, Meg successfully blocked the pending Red Notice request, which was definitively rejected by INTERPOL as politically motivated and a gross violation of human rights.

Obtaining a security-related inadmissibility waiver for a respected business leader whose U.S. visa had been denied due to false derogatory information. Through a collaborative approach with the U.S. Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security, Meg’s client successfully obtained the visa, allowing him to enter the U.S. and begin rehabilitating his record.

Meg also defends clients in removal proceedings and assists permanent residents accused of abandoning their residency. Her knowledge of U.S. citizenship law—including acquisition abroad, derivation, and naturalization—is widely respected, and she has represented numerous diplomats whose children’s citizenship is in question.

She practices before the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files, U.S. immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and international bodies such as the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Before entering private practice, Meg served as a judicial law clerk and attorney advisor with the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, working at immigration courts in Maryland, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Her global perspective is further shaped by her service in the Peace Corps in West Africa and her legal work with the Refugee Advice and Casework Service in Sydney, Australia.