Attorneys and Legal Staff

Professor Rahul Manchanda, Esq. - Principal Attorney
Toll Free Number: 1 (866) 761-5308
E-mail: rdm@manchanda-law.com
Direct Dial: (212) 968-8600

Professor and Attorney Rahul Manchanda has worked for one of the largest law firms in Manhattan, where he focused on asbestos litigation. At the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ("UNCITRAL") in Vienna, Austria, Mr. Manchanda was exposed to international trade law, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, and comparisons of the American common law with European civil law. He later worked for one of the largest multi-national law firms in Paris, France, where he focused primarily on international arbitration, arbitration agreements, the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards against multinational parent corporations, piercing the corporate veil, arbitration venue choice, and foreign policy. In Paris, Mr. Manchanda analyzed and compared the American legal system with its British, French, Russian, German, and Chinese counterparts. Mr. Manchanda also has extensive technical experience in Federal Patent Prosecution and Intellectual Property issues, and has contributed to the issuing of patents in the areas of biotechnology, organic chemistry, biopharmaceuticals, electrical and mechanical engineering, computer software and technology, and internet business methods. He was recently the Keynote Address Speaker for Hamline University School of International Law on the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, as well as a Chief Speaker for the Civil Rights Litigation Update Seminar on Balancing Inalienable Civil Rights and National Security in the Post-911 Era. Professor Manchanda is also a Faculty Member for LawLine.com, an online Continuing Legal Education ("CLE") program designed to educate Attorneys all across the country on cutting edge issues of Immigration Law and Deportation and Removal Defense Litigation. Click here to watch a portion of his 2 hour lecture on Immigration and Deportation and Removal Defense Litigation.

In December 2006 Mr. Manchanda traveled extensively throughout Iran with an American good will organization. Upon his return Mr. Manchanda reported to the FBI, Congress, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and other domestic and foreign agencies about the need for the United States to abandon, stop, and cease Colonialist and Empire-like behavior around the globe, in favor of more peaceful negotiations, mutual respect, and diplomacy to cure the problems in the Middle East and the world, rather than resorting to oppression, bloody wars, and conflict. For this report, entitled Reframing Iran: Views from the Field, Mr. Manchanda has received vicious criticism and character assassination attacks from Neo-Conservative movements and other foreign and domestic entities, who are intent on going to war, in which millions of innocent men, women, and children would suffer and die needlessly, while further bankrupting this nation and consequently, the world. You can read some of his landmark reports and work here. The report was submitted to the US Department of State, Congress, Members of the Administration, and Local and Regional Government Officials. The report received unprecedented recognition both here and in Iran, where the report has been translated into Farsi and widely disseminated.

At Boston University, Mr. Manchanda took a Bachelors degree in Biology, wherein he distinguished himself in the chemical and biological sciences, doing extensive research in organic chemistry, in both field and laboratory work relating to organic synthesis and isolation, structure determination, and production of synthetic bio-active natural products. He also attended Yale University where he studied Molecular Cell and Evolutionary Biology. He served on the Pace University School of Law's Mentor Program where he received his Juris Doctor degree. Attorney Manchanda graduated from the Wooster Prep School in Danbury Connecticut where he was a Varsity Letterman in Soccer, Wrestling, Tennis, and Lacrosse, as well as the Lead in the Drama Program.

His internationally recognized law firm has a formidable presence in Federal Criminal, Civil, International, and Immigration Courts throughout the United States pertaining to Master, Individual, and Final Hearings, Naturalization Interviews, Writs of Habeas Corpus, Writs of Corum Nobis, Marriage Cases, U.S. Embassy and Consular Processing, American Citizen Services, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of State liaison, 440 Motions to Vacate, Amend, or Expunge Criminal Convictions, Aggravated Felonies, Drug Smuggling Cases, Stokes Hearings, Political Asylum, Taxation, Hardship, Removal of Condition Hearings, National Security, and Adjustment of Status Interviews. He served as an American Immigration Lawyer Association ("AILA") Committee Member for the Congressional/Advocacy Committee, the Department of Labor ("DOL") Committee, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review ("EOIR")/District Counsel/Political Asylum Committee. Attorney Manchanda also proudly served on the New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel Program, which is a small group of Attorneys who serve the poor without charge, helping people who otherwise could not afford legal counsel to achieve justice. Attorney Manchanda also proudly serves as a Member of the American Bar Association Advisory Panel, a group of Attorneys that informs the ABA’s priorities and decisions by providing opinions about the direction of the ABA and issues facing the profession.

In addition to Mr. Manchanda’s extensive international litigation practice in Immigration Law, Deportation and Removal Defense Litigation, Family Law, International Law, Civil Litigation, and Federal Criminal Defense, he has advised on, prepared, and filed countless Non-Immigrant and Immigrant Visa Petitions including, but not limited to: H-1B1, B, C, D, E, L, O, P, H-3, J, K, M, R, S, T, and U Visas, as well as I-130 and I-140 Immigrant Petitions with accompanying Adjustment of Status (I-485), Extraordinary Ability Petitions, EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-5, Investment Based Visas, PERM, RIR, and Regular Labor Certification Applications with the Department of Labor, Political Asylum, Marriage Cases, Stokes Interviews, Naturalization/Citizenship, Agricultural, 245(I), CSS/Lulac/Zambrano, LIFE Act, Removal of Conditions, Criminal and Overstay Waivers, and Aggravated Felony and CMT Defense. Attorney Manchanda has succeeded for his Clients in Deportation and Removal Proceedings, Asylum, Employment Based Visa Petitions including PERM/Labor Certification, Business Immigration Visas, and Family Based Immigration Petitions. 

He taught Immigration Law at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice for the City University of New York located in Manhattan New York.

Attorney Manchanda’s Family Court Litigation expertise includes successful advice and court appearances in Supreme Court and Family Court throughout New York for Divorce, Child Support, Child Custody, Orders to Show Cause, RJIs, Visitation Rights, Paternity, and Order of Protection proceedings.  He has also successfully advised on and appeared in Criminal Court throughout New York for many different types of Criminal Defense Matters.

He was sworn in and admitted to practice in the highest courts in New York State as well as in the Federal United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Federal United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the United States District Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States District Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has been an active member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Phi Alpha Delta International, the Global Interdependence Center ("GIC"), the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Network 20/20, and the Asia Society. He regularly participated in conferences with the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, Capitol Hill, the Center For Strategic and International Studies ("CSIS"), and the Council on Foreign Relations ("CFR") in Washington, D.C. pertaining to counterterrorism and foreign policy in South Asia. He served on a New York Committee on State Regulation of Immigration Law in front of the New York State Senate. He served on the Board of Directors and Sponsor of the US-India Institute ("USINI"), a non-partisan foreign policy advisory board and think tank located in Washington, D.C. focusing on critical geo-strategic issues of national security, defense and economic relations between the U.S. and India, informing and educating key policy makers in the U.S. and India on issues of common interest, and advocating the importance of achieving and maintaining peace through strength and economic freedom. He served as the U.S.-India Political Action Committee ("USINPAC") Co-Chairman for New York where he impacted U.S. Foreign Policy on issues of concern to the Indian American community in the United States, providing bipartisan support to candidates for Federal, State and Local office who supported the issues that were important to the Indian American community, including research, support, and advocacy towards the successful passage of the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Non-Proliferation Enhancement Act, signed into law on October 8, 2008 after more than three years of contentious bi-partisan and bi-lateral negotiations. Attorney Manchanda also served on the Paris Conference Presidential Desk of the European Association of Lawyers ("AEA"), a highly selective network of international law firms with a presence in most of the world’s countries. He is also a member of the Indian American Lawyers Association of Manhattan New York as well as the Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations, which is a private organization that promotes  foreign policy and international affairs dialogue between policy makers, researchers, and other high level analysts and the Committee’s membership. Attorney Manchanda is also on the Advisory Council for the Republican National Lawyers Association.