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Jennifer Drugay Cook

Senior Counsel
fax +1 202.552.2375

Jennifer Drugay Cook represents clients ranging from private individuals to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of immigration matters including employment-based, family-based, and naturalization cases before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the U.S. Department of State, and other federal agencies. She guides employers on temporary and permanent employment of professionals in a range of fields from healthcare (with a special focus on nurses and other allied health professionals) to international trade, and navigating the complexities involved in consular processing abroad. She assists international students who seek to remain in the United States once their course of study is complete, and helps families to obtain immigration benefits, from permanent residence through citizenship.

Jennifer has assisted clients in responding to complex Requests for Evidence and Notices of Intent to Deny, and appeals challenging denials of their cases before the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office, the U.S. Department of Justice Board of Immigration Appeals, and Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, and has prepared many actions on immigration matters—on behalf of individuals and employers—in federal courts.

Jennifer frequently presents to healthcare employers regarding options to secure and retain foreign national healthcare workers. She is a contributing editor for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) publications and provides pro bono legal assistance to military personnel and families through the AILA Military Assistance Program (MAP).

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, 2001, Dean's Award for Service to the Law Center. Staff, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Equal Justice Foundation public interest fellowship recipient.
B.A., magna cum laude, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1992

Recognitions

Business Immigration Law Firm of the Year in Washington DC by Corporate INTL Magazine (2018-2021)

Business Immigration Law Firm of the Year in Washington DC by GlobalLawExperts (2018-2020)

2017 Tier 1 Ranking for Immigration Law in Washington DC by US News and World Report

2017 Immigration Law Firm of the Year – USA by Finance Monthly Magazine

2017 Legal Team of the Year – Corporate Immigration by Lawyerissue

Memberships

American Bar Association

American Immigration Lawyers Association

D.C. Bar Association

Maryland State Bar Association

National Lawyers Guild, National Immigration Project

Social Justice Committee, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Georgetown

State Bar Licenses

District of Columbia, Maryland

Selected Publications

  • Editor, “Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law, AILA Annual Conference,” American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2015 through 2022-23 edition
  • Contributing Editor, “AILA’s Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, Seventh Edition” by Dree Collopy, American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2015
  • Co-author (with Thomas K. Ragland), “Litigating Immigration Cases in Federal Court – What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Immigration Law,” American Bar Association, 2014
  • Co-author, “‘Not Unbounded’: The Reach of State Authority Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act,” ABA Water Resources Committee Newsletter, January 2011
  • Author, “Not Your Grandfather’s Energy Source,” Law360, August 20, 2010
  • Co-author, “New Endorsement of State Authority Under the Clean Water Act: S.D. Warren v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection,” Western Water Law & Policy Reporter, July 2006
Presentations

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