About Emily R.
Emily R. Spitzer arrived at immigration law after a concentrated run through public interest and private practice. She earned her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2018 after completing a B.A. at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2015. Those credentials set the stage for work that moved quickly from nonprofit advocacy into firm practice.
Her earliest post-law school role was an Immigrant Justice Corps fellowship at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) in 2018. There she worked on cases for children and families, handling intake, screenings, and applications. The fellowship placed her inside removal defense systems and asylum processes, giving routine exposure to hearings and client interviews at an early career stage.
Spitzer joined HoganWillig in 2020 as an associate handling both divorce and family law matters and immigration questions that often overlapped with family proceedings. The dual practice continued at Rupp Pfalzgraf LLC in 2022, where her title again combined family and immigration work. Those years sharpened the interplay between state family courts and federal immigration adjudications. She developed practical habits for coordinating filings across agencies and courts while managing sensitive client expectations.
In 2024 she moved into a senior role at Kruger Immigration Law, PLLC. That position reflects a transition to firm work concentrated on immigration practice. She holds memberships in the State Bar of New York, active since 2020, and previously in the State Bar of New Jersey from 2018 until 2021. Her credentials include appearances and filings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Board of Immigration Appeals, as well as matters before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Colleagues describe her as methodical about procedure and steady in hearings. She has handled applications, motions, and removal defense pleadings, and she has experience working on family-based immigration cases that require coordination with matrimonial proceedings. She often prepares clients for voir dire-style questioning in detained settings and drafts briefs for administrative appeals.
Her practice combines technical filings with client-facing work. She prepares cases for EOIR master calendar and merits hearings, submits appellate briefs to the BIA, and handles adjustment and naturalization matters before USCIS. Her background in family law continues to inform how she approaches immigrant clients whose cases intersect with custody and domestic-relations issues.
She currently practices at Kruger Immigration Law, PLLC, where her work centers on immigration proceedings before EOIR, BIA, and USCIS.
