From 'Abogada de Milagros' to Barred for Life: The Collapse of Alexandra Lozano's Immigration Empire

Evegnii Nessirio of Seattle, a Russian citizen who was scheduled for his citizenship interview, stands outside following a two-week closure of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) building and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field office because of an employee who may be infected with the novel coronavirus in Tukwila, Washington on March 3, 2020. - The US death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic rose to seven on March 3 after authorities confirmed that a nursing home patient who died last week was infected with the disease. All seven US deaths from COVID-19, as the virus is called, have been in Washington state. ( (Credit: Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Her Spanish-language marketing called her the "abogada de los milagros" — the lawyer of miracles. Today, Alexandra Lozano can no longer practice law anywhere, her firm has closed its doors, and tens of thousands of immigrants who trusted her are left wondering what was actually submitted under their names.

Multiple lawsuits and a legal ethics probe accuse the Washington state attorney of inventing domestic violence and human trafficking narratives to support humanitarian visa petitions her clients say they never saw. Plaintiffs contend she capitalized on immigrants' hunger for legal status, staffed her operation with workers lacking proper legal credentials, and ran what amounted to an assembly line — one that allegedly went as far as copying client signatures onto unseen paperwork.