Bethany Ow

Bethany is an immigration attorney with extensive experience working in all sectors of the immigration field. She is an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School where she has co-taught an immigration litigation clinic that gives law students supervised practical experience representing special immigrant juveniles and asylees. Most recently, Bethany was a Supervising Attorney at Safe Passage Project, a non-profit focused on providing pro bono legal representation to immigrant and refugee children. Over her time at Safe Passage, Bethany helped to implement their successful pro bono mentorship program in addition to guiding staff attorneys and pro bono attorneys through complex immigration court, family court, and asylum office proceedings.  Prior to her work with Safe Passage, Bethany was employed with the Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review in Houston, Texas, where she gained valuable experience in the field by researching and drafting legal decisions on behalf of eight Immigration Court judges. She has published an academic article regarding federal court jurisdiction over citizenship cases and served as one of the principal research assistants on a published immigration law textbook. Bethany began her immigration law career working in several private immigration law firms in both Chicago and New York City.

Bethany is admitted to practice in New York State, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is a graduate of Lawrence University and New York Law School, where she received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Proficiency in Constitutional Law and served as an Articles Editor for the New York Law School Law Review. Bethany has studied in Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica, and Mexico, and is fluent in Spanish.