Immigration Law with Bruna Estrada Fortanelli
Strategic Immigration Guidance. Compassionate Advocacy. Bilingual Representation.
Immigration cases are deeply personal. They affect families, careers, safety, stability, and the right to remain in the United States. At Big Dan Law, we help clients slow down, understand their options, and make informed decisions before taking action.
That is why Big Dan Law is proud to highlight Bruna Estrada Fortanelli, an immigration attorney with substantial experience representing individuals and families in complex immigration matters. Bruna brings a rare combination of courtroom experience, bilingual advocacy, trauma-informed client service, and deep commitment to immigrant communities.
Whether you are facing removal proceedings, seeking humanitarian protection, pursuing family-based immigration relief, or trying to understand the next step after receiving immigration paperwork, Bruna helps clients approach the process with preparation, dignity, and strategy.
Before you file, sign, leave, plead, or miss a deadline — talk to Big Dan Law.
Meet Bruna Estrada Fortanelli
Bruna Estrada Fortanelli is an immigration attorney whose practice is rooted in access to justice, client dignity, and practical legal strategy. She has represented detained and non-detained clients in removal proceedings before the Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and immigration supervision authorities. Her experience includes case evaluation, legal consultations, case strategy, applications for relief, client testimony preparation, legal briefing, motions practice, and immigration-court advocacy.
Bruna is fully biliterate in English and Spanish and has extensive experience working across cultural differences, presenting in Spanish, interpreting, translating legal and professional documents, and conducting bilingual community outreach. For clients and families navigating immigration law, that matters. A client should be able to tell their story, understand their options, and participate meaningfully in their case.
Her approach is careful, organized, and human-centered. She understands that immigration cases often involve trauma, family separation, fear, uncertainty, and urgent deadlines. Bruna works to protect each client’s dignity while building a case strategy based on facts, documentation, eligibility, and long-term goals.
Bruna’s Immigration Practice Focus
1. Deportation and Removal Defense
Bruna has substantial experience representing individuals in removal proceedings before Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and immigration supervision authorities. Her work includes both detained and non-detained cases, including matters involving removability, criminal-history concerns, applications for relief, post-removal-order issues, motions to terminate, prosecutorial-discretion requests, custody redetermination, stays of removal, and appeals.
Removal defense is high-stakes work. The outcome can affect a client’s ability to remain in the United States, stay with family, maintain employment, and pursue future immigration benefits. Bruna approaches these cases by carefully evaluating the government’s allegations, identifying available defenses or relief, preparing supporting evidence, and helping clients understand what to expect before court.
2. Humanitarian Immigration Relief
Bruna’s experience includes humanitarian immigration matters involving asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture, U-Visas, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, domestic-violence-related waivers, and other protection-based forms of relief.
These cases often require more than forms. They require careful storytelling, corroborating evidence, legal analysis, and sensitivity to trauma. Bruna helps clients present their histories clearly and respectfully while building legally supported applications that reflect the reality of what they have experienced and the protection they are seeking.
3. Family-Based and Status-Related Immigration Matters
Bruna also assists with family-based and status-related immigration matters, including adjustment of status, family-based petitions, employment authorization, stays of removal, custody redetermination, and related immigration planning.
Many immigration cases involve overlapping issues. A family petition may be affected by a prior removal order. An adjustment case may require careful review of immigration history. A work authorization issue may depend on a pending application or court proceeding. Bruna helps clients understand how these issues connect before they make decisions that could affect their future.
Why Clients Choose Big Dan Law for Immigration Consultations
Immigration law is complex, deadline-driven, and constantly changing. One mistake can create serious consequences. Big Dan Law’s mission is to help clients make smart legal choices through focused, accessible consultations. The firm’s website already emphasizes helping Texans solve problems “one consultation at a time” and serving clients statewide, including through virtual consultations and bilingual services.
When you schedule an immigration consultation with Big Dan Law, the goal is simple: understand the problem, identify the options, and determine the smartest next step.
You may need an immigration consultation if:
- You received a notice from immigration court or ICE;
- You or a loved one is facing deportation or removal;
- You want to apply for asylum or other humanitarian protection;
- You are seeking a family-based immigration option;
- You have a prior removal order, criminal history, or immigration denial;
- You are unsure whether to file an application;
- You need help understanding deadlines, risks, and strategy.
Talk to Big Dan Law Before You Make a Move
Immigration decisions should not be made in the dark. Before you file paperwork, miss a deadline, leave the country, sign a document, or try to handle a complex immigration matter alone, get legal guidance.
A consultation today can help you avoid costly mistakes tomorrow.
