Timothy W. Davis, Esq

            A Baltimore native, Timothy William Davis is the Founder and Managing Attorney at the Law Offices of Timothy W. Davis, which he established in June of 2008.  After serving in the United States Army for four years from 1981 to 1985, he left at the rank of E-4 and decided to pursue a career in electrical engineering.  He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland in 1989, having earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and continued to work in this field for over a decade and a half.  In 2003, Mr. Davis was inspired to embark on a second career in law and, despite many apprehensions about switching careers at the age of 40 and his ability to succeed as an attorney with dyslexia, he was accepted at American University’s Washington College of Law in 2004 and graduated in 2007 with his juris doctorate.

            Later that same year in December of 2007, he was admitted to practice law in the State of Maryland, after which his journey into practicing immigration law began in earnest.  Mr. Davis has since been admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Court for Maryland, and the Supreme Court of the United States.  He is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys’ Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association.

            Mr. Davis’s motivation to begin working with immigrants sprouted from the near-deportation of his sister’s husband while Mr. Davis was in his second year of law school.  It was this process that brought to Mr. Davis’s attention non-citizens’ needs for strong advocates to protect their ability to remain in the United States legally.  As an intern at a prominent criminal defense firm, Mr. Davis was able to help his brother-in-law obtain a post-conviction relief, which in turn provided the deportation relief his brother-in-law so desperately needed.  It was a stroke of fate which allowed Mr. Davis to find his true passion in life—helping immigrants obtain relief and legal status in the United States—and caused him to begin specializing in the practice of immigration law while still in law school.  Recently, Mr. Davis was also able to assist his brother-in-law in finally obtaining his naturalization.

            Shortly after establishing his own immigration law firm in 2008, Mr. Davis took on a client whose story continues to motivate him to this day.  The client was a young man from Togo seeking political asylum who had been detained for nearly three months by the Department of Homeland Security before receiving any kind of legal aid.  When Mr. Davis met with the man for the first time, the image of the young man in that moment stuck with him—the client was dejected and emotionally devastated, as he spoke no English and had been getting harassed by other detainees for months.  But when Mr. Davis’s interpreter spoke to the young man in his native language of West-African French, his whole demeanor changed.  His face brightened with hope for his future and Mr. Davis was able to help him leave the detention facility and, over the course of two years, obtain political asylum. 

            During Mr. Davis’s time practicing immigration law, he has helped hundreds of clients pursue various matters of immigration relief, including but not limited to: affirmative and defensive asylum, adjustment of status, naturalization, Temporary Protected Status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U-Visa, petitions for alien relatives, waivers, cancellation of removal, the reopening of removal orders, the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, work authorization permits, and appeals.  Mr. Davis always remembers that first client and that day at the jail as the moment he realized firsthand the incredible and unique ability lawyers have to positively affect a person’s life.  Ever since, he has made it his mission to help people who have endured intense, devastating hardships find the peace and security they sought when they first arrived in the United States.

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Education

• 5/2007 – American University, Washington College of Law, Juris Doctor
• 5/1989 – University of Maryland, B.S. Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude
• 5/1981 – Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore, MD, High School Diploma

Bar Admissions

• 07/20/2021 – Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• 06/25/2021 – Admitted to the Virginia Bar
• 5/14/2012 – Admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1/3/2012 – Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• 2/24/2010 – Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• 12/19/2008 – Admitted to the Maryland United States District Court for Maryland
• 12/8/2008 – Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar
• 4/12/2008 – Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• 12/11/2007 – Admitted to the Maryland Bar

Legal Professional Associations

• Member of the Maryland State Bar Association
• Member of the District of Columbia Bar Association
• Member of the American Bar Association
• Member of the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorney’s Association
• Member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association

Military Service

• 1981-1985 – United States Army