Assma Ali is the founding Immigration Attorney at the Law Offices of Ali & Associates; P.A. Ms. Ali has extensive experience working in the field of Immigration Law. She has traveled all over the United States representing clients, so if you are in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas or anywhere else in the United States you can count on Ms. Ali to be there. She has represented several high-ranking government officials from various countries. She handles detained and non-detained cases. She has represented clients with their cases in Immigration Court, USCIS, and with ICE.  She is licensed to practice immigration law in all fifty states and has traveled all over the United States representing foreign nationals from various countries in securing them legal status.

Due to her zealous representation of her clients, she was recognized by the Association of Americas’ Top Lawyers as being within the Top 40 Lawyers under the age of 40 within the field of Immigration Law. This recognition is given to less than 1% of attorneys in the United States. She was also selected as Top 30 under 30 by the Arab American Foundation. She has also been awarded the Distinguished Lawyer Award, the Elite Lawyer Award, the Law of Eagles Award, the Lawyer of the Year Award, and much more. She has also conducted extensive interviews with several news outlets nationwide on the topic of immigration law.

In addition to her awards, Ms. Ali has also spoken at various events and continues to travel nationwide presenting on the field of immigration law. She has presented in Detroit for the Federal Bar Association, was the Keynote Speaker at the America Association for Students and Professionals in Dearborn, the Mississippi Association for Justice, Mississippi College School of Law CLE, the Rotary Club and the American Association for Immigration Lawyers Mid-South Conference and much more.

Ms. Ali is a child of Yemeni Immigrants. Her parents immigrated to the United States in the 1970’s seeking a better future for themselves and their children. She understands that immigration can be a complicated and cumbersome process and her goal is to try to simplify and ease it for her clients.

Bar Admission

• Mississippi
• 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Northern District of Mississippi

Memberships

• Mississippi Bar
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
• National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML)
• Association of America’s Top Lawyers Association (AOATL)
• Charles Clark American Inns of Court
• Young Lawyers Division (YLD)
• Lawyers of Distinction
• Law Eagles of America
• Elite Lawyers
• SuperLawyers

Recognitions

• 2026, Mid-South Rising Star (Superlawyers)
• 2026, Outstanding Woman Lawyer of the Year (MWLA)
• 2025, Mid-South Rising Star (Superlawyers)
• 2025-Best Abogados de Inmigración in Jackson
• 2025, Law Review Symposium-Regulatory Revolution: How the Evolving Administrative Law Landscape Will Impact Legal Practices
• 2024, Mid-South Rising Star (Superlawyers)
• 2024, American Institute of Trial Lawyers-Litigator of the Year (Immigration Law)
• 2024, Law Review Symposium-Modern Family: Issues that Matter From Local to Global
• 2023, American Institute of Trial Lawyers-Litigator of the Year (Immigration Law)
• 2023, Distinguished Lawyers Award
• 2023, Outstanding Young Lawyer Award
• 2023, Elite Lawyers Award
• 2022, Leadership Mississippi Bar
• 2022, Keynote Speaker AAYSP Award
• 2022, Elite Lawyers Award
• 2021, Law Eagles of America Award (Recognizing the Finest Lawyers in the U.S.)
• 2021, Arab American Foundation, 30 under 30
• 2020, Association of America’s Top Lawyers Association (AOATL)- Top 40 under 40
• 2020, Lawyer of the Year (Top 100 Registry)
• 2019, Best of Jackson Finalist
• 2019, Distinguished Lawyers Award
• 2018, American Association of American Trial Lawyers (AOATL)- Top 40 under 40
• 2018, Avvo Clients Choice Award

Firm Awards

• 2023 Quality Business Awards, The Best Immigration Lawyer in Jackson, Mississippi
• 2023 Three Best Rated, Top 3 Immigration Lawyers in Jackson, Mississippi

Speaking Engagements

• 2026, Summer Law Camp Panelist (Sunflower County) 
• 2026, Legal Leadership: When Is It Okay to Speak Out? (Inns of Court)
• 2026, AILA Seminar, Navigating Travel and Entry in a Climate of Rapid Change
• 2026, AILA Seminar, Pretermission, Detention, and the New Asylum Gauntlet
• 2025, AILA Web Seminar, Credible and Reasonable Fear Interviews in Detention
• 2025, MS Bar Bridge the Gap, Duty to the Profession
• 2025, Law Review Symposium-Regulatory Revolution: How the Evolving Administrative Law Landscape Will Impact Legal Practices
• 2024, Arab America Foundation, Empowering Voices: The Emergence of Leadership Amongst Young Arab Americans
• 2024, AILA Midsouth Conference: Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: Hot Topics in Removal Proceedings
• 2024, AILA Seminar: Challenges with Immigration Courts: Tips from the Experts (Moderator)
• 2024, Professionalism Panel, Mississippi College School of Law (Panel)
• 2024, MWLA, Sixteenth Annual Day of Leadership (Panelist Moderator)
• 2024, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) National Conference (Chicago)
• 2024, Law Review Symposium-Modern Family: Issues that Mattel)r From Local to Global
• 2024, The Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Law
• 2023, Rotary Guest Speaker
• 2023, Keynote Speaker at the Frontier International Academy Graduation in Michigan (2023)
• 2023, Creative Humanitarian Options: Using All the Tools in the Toolbox (AILA) -Panel
• 2023, Charles Clark Inns of Court, The Case of the Vanishing Trial (Panel)
• 2023, Bridge the Gap, Law Office Management (September 29, 2023)-YLD/MS Bar
• 2023, Mississippi Bar, Diversity Best Practices, Tackling Diversity Issues from the Solo/Small Firm (April 19, 2023)-MS Bar
• 2023, Professionalism Panel, Mississippi College School of Law (Panel)
• 2022, Keynote Speaker at the American Association of Students and Professionals
• 2022, Federal Bar Association (FBA), Immigration Law Conference, Inadmissibility & Waivers in Humanitarian Cases (2022)
• 2021, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA),  Mid-Winter Conference Seminar Speaker (March 2, 2021)
• 2019, Mississippi Association for Justice, Mid-Year Convention Seminar Speaker (2019)
• 2018, Mississippi College School of Law, Immigration CLE Panel Speaker (2018)

News Releases

 

Fox News

• Louisiana the new go-to spot for ICE detainees (November 7, 2019)

Huff Post

• Chasing Safety (May 2, 2020)
• Initially Denied Protection, Yemeni Men’s Cases Reversed After HuffPost Investigation (May 29, 2020)
• Yemeni National Granted Asylum After Huffpost Report (2020)

ABC Local

• Canton family living in fear after robbery, shooting (August 16, 2019)

Fox Local

• Attorney speaks on Canton home invasion victims (August 15, 2019)
• Trump signs executive order requiring truck drivers to speak English (April 30, 2025)

The Union Journal

• Initially Denied Protection, Yemeni Men’s Cases Reversed After HuffPost Investigation (May 29, 2020)

Mississippi Clarion Ledger

• Teen shot in home invasion on same day as MS ICE raid. Family believes it was targeted (August 16, 2019)
• ‘Treated like hell’: Mississippi ICE detainees say they don’t get enough food, medical care (December 20, 2019)

Mother Jones

• ICE Is Sending Hundreds of Asylum-Seekers to a Private Prison in Mississippi (February 15, 2019)

Other

• WTVA: Interview: Mississippi attorney discusses southern border, 51 dead migrants in Texas (2022)
• AAMF: Article: Protecting the Innocent and the Weak: The Story of Attorney Assma Ali (2023)
• WLBT: Ask the Experts: Detained Immigrants (2025)
• Tallahatchienews: Ruleville police officer charged with extorting an immigrant for cash (2025)
• WAPT: Two Congo brothers in ICE custody after alleged student visa violation; family and officials respond. (2026)

Areas of Practice

• Defense in Deportation
• Affirmative & Defensive Asylum
• Cancellation of Removal
• Citizenship/Naturalization
• Immigration Bond Hearings
• Adjustment of Status
• Family Immigration
• Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
• Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
• Waivers of Inadmissibility
• Consular Processing
• Immigrant Visas
• U-Visas