When LatinTimes first reported on the unraveling of Alexandra Lozano's immigration practice in early July, the Washington attorney her clients called the "abogada de los milagros" had already given up her law license, closed her firm and left an estimated 35,000 people wondering exactly what had been filed under their names. A month on, the case is bigger, the money trail is stranger, and Lozano's own location has become a genuine mystery.
From Nine Plaintiffs to Thirty-Four — and Counting
The federal case that opened in May with nine former clients has grown substantially. An amended complaint filed in late July in the Western District of Washington now names 34 plaintiffs, and the legal team behind it — led by attorney Vicente Omar Barraza — says the response has kept climbing since then. By late July, Barraza told Fresnoland that more than 5,000 people had reached out about joining the case, up from an estimate of roughly 2,500 just days earlier. Barraza argues that pace of contact suggests a scheme that stretched well beyond Washington state.
Tracing an Alleged $400 Million Trail
For the first time, the amended complaint puts a number on the alleged scheme: attorneys say Lozano generated more than $400 million in revenue or committed fees, a figure they calculated by multiplying her typical charge — between $10,000 and $15,000 per case — against her reported client base. Separately, a Washington disciplinary filing alleges Lozano's signature appears on more than 53,000 pending petitions still sitting with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a scale that plaintiffs' attorneys say helps explain how the dollar figures got so large.
The suit is also chasing a specific piece of property that has become something of a symbol in local coverage: a pink-and-white Bombardier jet valued at roughly $25 million, along with several multimillion-dollar homes, including property in Mexico. Aviation records reviewed by King 5 trace the jet to a Washington-based company where Lozano was the only listed officer, before ownership was shifted into a trust structure commonly used to register private aircraft. Plaintiffs want a judge to place those assets into a trust for former clients, arguing the property was routed through a web of LLCs and trusts specifically to keep it away from creditors — an allegation, like the rest of the complaint, that has not been tested in court.
A Second Lawsuit Alleges an Assembly-Line Scheme
Apart from the Barraza case, a proposed class action filed June 15 targets Lozano under the name now used on court paperwork, Alexandra Lozano Kennedy, along with her firm La Luz del Camino Legal PLLC. Lead plaintiff Maria Guadalupe Diaz Toscano accuses the firm of what the complaint calls "narrative engineering" — mass-producing humanitarian filings, including VAWA self-petitions and T-visa applications, without individually evaluating whether clients actually qualified. Attorneys involved believe the proposed class could eventually reach thousands of people across the country.
Where Is Lozano?
The strangest thread running through the case may be Lozano's whereabouts. The amended complaint states she has left the court's jurisdiction in Western Washington, and Barraza put it more bluntly in a text message to a Spokane reporter: "We are not sure where she is." Her attorney, Angelo Calfo, did not respond to requests for comment on the newest allegations, though he has previously said Lozano intends to fight the claims in court. In an earlier statement carried by ABC7 Chicago, Calfo said Lozano "will address those allegations fully in court," adding that thousands of her former clients ultimately did win legal status through the firm's work.
The legal exposure may not end with civil court. Des Moines, Washington, attorney Susan Pai — who has spent months compiling accounts from former clients as possible witnesses — says the complaints have escalated into what she describes as a federal criminal investigation, though no charges have been filed and no arrests announced as of this writing. Pai says the financial toll on affected families has been severe; describing one household she represents, she said they "have not been able to eat meat for the last three years" because of money lost to the firm. Separately, Lozano was formally suspended from practicing before USCIS, the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals effective June 18, 2026. Washington's attorney general had also been conducting a "pre-litigation" review of the firm's business practices as of last July, and USCIS's fraud unit continues examining the case, though neither office has announced new action since LatinTimes' initial report.
The Fallout Spreads From Fresno to Chicago
The consequences have traveled well past Washington's borders. In Fresno, reporters found a shuttered Lozano office with its signage removed but its interior still lined with religious glass candles and wall lettering reading "proteccion, permiso, papeles" — even as California clients signed on to the litigation through the Seattle-based Barraza Law, according to ABC7 Los Angeles. In the Chicago area, the amended complaint points to a satellite office in Berwyn, Illinois, and a multimillion-dollar downtown condo tied to Lozano, with local immigration attorneys telling ABC7 Chicago they had heard rumors for years that cases were being fabricated to manufacture eligibility. Oregon clients, meanwhile, still don't have a clear count of how many were affected, since neither the firm nor the Washington bar has produced one.
A Deadline Just Passed
Amid the litigation, a more immediate deadline has come and gone. When the firm — by then operating as La Luz del Camino Legal — announced its closure on June 10, it promised to email every client a link to their case file within roughly 60 days, putting the target date at August 9, 2026, one day after this article's publication. Clients who haven't received that link are being directed to contact the firm's site or file a complaint with the Washington Attorney General's office. The Washington State Bar Association continues to point affected clients toward its Client Protection Fund, a resource of last resort that held just over $6 million as of March — a pool that would stretch thin against a client base bar records put at more than 35,000.
Advocates who have spent weeks fielding calls from panicked former clients say the scandal exposes a slower-moving failure. Barraza and other attorneys note that complaints about Lozano's practices reached both the state bar and the attorney general's office years before her resignation, yet went largely unaddressed until the lawsuits made headlines. For a community that already approaches the legal system warily, immigration advocates warn that the collapse of one of the country's most visible Latino-marketed law firms risks deepening that distrust — even as tens of thousands of pending cases sit in limbo, waiting on a resolution nobody can yet promise.
