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Holzbaur Law
A downtown Jacksonville immigration law office for families on the Westside, Northside, Southside, Arlington, the Beaches, and across Northeast Florida. English and Spanish.
Holzbaur Law PLLC is an immigration law firm at 233 East Bay Street in downtown Jacksonville, led by attorney John Holzbaur, a retired Naval flight officer admitted to the Florida Bar and the Middle District of Florida Federal Bar.
Jacksonville is a big city with a small immigration bar. There is no immigration court here, cases go to Orlando, and the nearest ICE detention facilities are in Baker County, 40 minutes west. Many families end up calling firms in Orlando or Miami that have never set foot in either place. We are the local option: we visit clients in Baker County, appear before the Orlando court, and walk to the federal courthouse when a case needs it.
Most of our immigration work is urgent, detention, bonds, and removal defense, but we also handle family green cards, naturalization, waivers, and the immigration consequences of criminal charges. Paralegal Azaharys Amaro, who went through the immigration process herself, answers in Spanish.
Immigration services
What to do in the first 72 hours, how to find someone, and how we fight for release.
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How bond is set, how we ask the judge to lower it, and what to do when the court says no.
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Notice to Appear, hearings in Orlando, and the forms of relief that end a case.
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Green cards, citizenship, waivers, and every other immigration matter we handle.
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Why local matters
Immigration law is federal, but immigration cases are local: the jail, the court, the ICE office, and the family are all in specific places. Knowing them saves time, and in detention cases time is the whole game.
In-person legal visits at both facilities, and we know the difference between the two, which many out-of-town firms do not.
The Bryan Simpson U.S. Courthouse is a few blocks from our office. When a habeas petition is the only way to challenge detention, John files it there.
Many Jacksonville immigration cases begin with a Duval County arrest. John practices criminal defense here too, so the plea and the immigration case are handled together.
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Free consultation at 233 East Bay Street or by phone.
Serving Jacksonville, Baker County, and North Florida, including NAS Jacksonville, Naval Station Mayport, and the Middle District of Florida.