Katia Bianchini

Rolodex

Katia Bianchini is a non-practicing Solicitor in the Immigration Team. She works in the Oxford office.

Katia graduated in Law from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1998, and then obtained an LLM degree from the University of San Diego, California, U.S.A, in 2000. She gained experience in civil rights as a law intern with the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego, and as a law clerk with Protection and Advocacy in Oakland, California.

After her admission to the New York State Bar in 2003, Katia practiced asylum and immigration law in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked in private practice and collaborated with a number of NGOs, including the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. Katia has extensive experience with U.S. asylum law, family-based and naturalisation applications, immigrant-visa applications for professionals as well as with waivers of inadmissibility.

She joined Turpin & Miller LLP in November 2005 and qualified as a Solicitor in May 2006.

Katia speaks Italian, Spanish and basic French.

Katia has a number of publications to her name:

  • "Legal Aid for Asylum Seekers in Italy: Progress and Challenges", Journal of Refugee Studies, (2011 - forthcoming)
  • "The Mandate Refugee Resettlement Program: A Critical Discussion", International Journal of Refugee Law, Vol. 22, N. 2 (July 2010)
  • Unaccompanied asylum-seeker children: flawed processes and protection gaps in the UK, Forced Migration Review, Issue 37 (2011), available here
  • Book Review of "Statelessness Matter" of Laura van Waas, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 22. N. 4 (Dec. 2009), 530
  • Book contribution: "The EU Directive Laying Down Minimum Standards for the Reception of Asylum Seekers: Implementation in the United Kingdom"l" in Sonia Morano-Foadi & Micaela Milena, eds., 'In/Equality for Third Country Nationals in the EU: The Challenge of Integration' ( Edward Edgar, forthcoming)

Cases

Currently on maternity leave

E-mail: kbianchini@turpinmiller.co.uk