A Law Firm for U.S. Immigration and Selected Louisiana Matters

Attorney Matthew G. Steel

Matthew G. Steel is a Louisiana attorney who specializes in U.S. immigration and nationality law. He earned his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2016 and completed Loyola’s Certificate in Common Law Studies and Certificate in Immigration and Citizenship Law and Practice. In 2014, the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center recognized him with its Public Service Award.

His practice includes removal defense, asylum and humanitarian relief, family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, extraordinary-ability and talent matters, citizenship and naturalization, immigration appeals, detention, consular matters, and federal immigration litigation.

Education, dual-system training, and public-service recognition

Matthew G. Steel earned his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2016. During law school, he completed Loyola’s Certificate in Common Law Studies and its Certificate in Immigration and Citizenship Law and Practice, adding formal common-law and immigration training to a Louisiana legal education.

In 2014, the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center recognized him with its Public Service Award. Loyola’s archived official recipient list names Matthew Steel among the 2014 recipients, providing a direct institutional source for the recognition.

• Loyola: Common Law certificate record→
• Loyola: Immigration and Citizenship Law and Practice→
• Loyola archive: 2014 Gillis Long recipients naming Matthew Steel→
• Avvo: 2014 Gillis Long Public Service Award→
• Lawyer.com: Gillis Long recognition→

Immigration work for employers, professionals, talent, and religious organizations

Employment immigration requires the employer, position, wage, worksite, beneficiary qualifications, immigration history, timing, and final processing path to tell one coherent story. Employer compliance requires a different discipline: preservation, lawful corrections, controlled communications, privilege, and stage-specific response.

Artists, athletes, agents, production companies, touring groups, religious organizations, and religious workers need category-specific records built around the actual U.S. work, petitioner structure, contracts, itinerary, organizational evidence, consultation requirements, and current program rules.

The broader immigration practice remains complete and visible

The firm also represents families, asylum seekers, crime and trafficking survivors, abused spouses and children, people in removal proceedings, detained clients, naturalization applicants, and people facing agency delay or unlawful detention in accepted matters.

The firm evaluates the person’s complete immigration and procedural history and coordinates USCIS, immigration court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, ICE custody, consular processing, and federal court when the accepted matter requires it.

Headquartered in Gretna. Federal immigration matters nationwide and internationally.

Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation is headquartered at 2000 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200B, Gretna, Louisiana 70056. U.S. immigration law is federal, and the firm may accept appropriate immigration matters involving clients, petitioners, employers, organizations, and families across the United States and abroad.

Louisiana matters, including traffic-ticket defense and notary services, remain subject to their own jurisdictional and geographic limits.

Facts. Evidence. Strategy. Record.

Facts establish what actually happened and what the client is trying to accomplish. Evidence determines what can be proved. Strategy chooses the lawful forum, classification, defense, sequence, and timing. The record preserves that work in a form another decision-maker can understand and evaluate.

This method does not guarantee a result. It prevents the case from being built around assumptions, hidden contradictions, copied language, missing documents, or a preferred conclusion that the law and evidence cannot support.

Direct communication with clear boundaries

A consultation is used to identify the matter, deadlines, parties, forum, available records, major risks, and next decision. It is not a sales promise, a guarantee of representation, or an invitation to hide damaging facts.

Prospective clients may call 833-43-STEEL, email matthew@steelyourcase.com, or use the consultation path. Public communications should not contain emergency deadlines, passwords, complete identity records, or highly sensitive evidence unless the firm has provided a secure method and instructions.