Abdiel Echevarria-Caban is the Owner and Chief Executive Officer at Echevarria-Caban Immigration Law Firm, LLC, founded in 2024. He focuses on removal defense before Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Abdiel received his J.D. from The University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 2013, a Master in Public Administration Summa Cum Laude from the University of Puerto in 2018 and a Master of Law in Human Rights and Social justice Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut School of law in 2019. He previously worked at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and the American Bar Association. Abdiel received the 2021 Pro Bono Roll Award from the American Bar Association and he has been listed as one of the 40 Best LGBT + Lawyers under 40 by the National LGBT Bar for outstanding contributions made as a young lawyer in the field of immigration and LGBT+ advocacy.
Echevarria has successfully coordinated programs, represented, and disenrolled refugees subject to draconian immigration policies at the southwest border such as: the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), Guatemalan Asylum Coordination Agreement (GACA) and the Asylum Transit Ban. He has traveled with humanitarian and cultural missions to Latin American and Caribbean countries in which he has witnessed the violence many refugees suffered. Some of these countries include Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
EDUCATION
LL.M. Master of Law in Human Rights and Social Justice, Cum Laude, University of Connecticut School of Law (2019)
M.P.A. Master in Public Administration, Summa Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico (2018)
J.D. Juris Doctor, University of Puerto Rico School of Law (2013)
B.A. Comparative Literature, Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico (2009)
BAR
Puerto Rico (Since 2017)
PRACTICE AREAS
Immigration Law | Community Lawyering | Civil Law
AWARDS
Laredo Immigration Alliance Volunteer Yearly Awards (2022)
40u40 Best LGBT + Lawyers National LGBT Bar (2021)
American Bar Association Pro Bono Roll Award (2021)
We have been providing expert legal advice to clients across the nation about 6 years.
2112 S Shary Rd Ste 12 Mission, Texas 78572
+1-469-436-2396
abdiel@echevarrialawfirm.com