David B Gardner

Personal Introduction

David B Gardner is certified as a specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California. He has more than 40 years professional legal experience advising clients on United States Immigration Law, as well as , International Business, Taxation and Estate Planning matters. Mr. Gardner was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 1974 and as a Solicitor in Hong Kong in 1984. He became a member of the California Bar in 1979 and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California; to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Fifth Circuit and the United States Tax Court. He graduated from the University of Sussex, in England with a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Social Science. He completed graduate studies at Northrop University, California (now University of West Los Angeles), with a Masters degree in Taxation in 1980 and subsequently taught at Northrop University as an Adjunct Professor of International Taxation. He is the author of: "IRS, INS and Foreign Entertainers," published in the Hastings Law Review, and has written numerous articles and spoken on immigration law and practice. He founded Law Offices of David B Gardner in 1985 as an international law practice and since 1996, following a law firm merger Mr. Gardner has practiced primarily in the areas of Immigration and Nationality Law. In addition to his work with international investors, businesses and entrepreneurs, Mr. Gardner represents clients in all types of immigration cases before Agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals) and in the Federal District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal. He was lead counsel in Vukmirovic v. Ashcroft, 362 F. 3d 1247(9th Cir. 2004.) and Vukmirovic v. Holder (9th Cir. Sept. 2010). He has successfully represented clients in many other appeals in the Ninth Circuit, Board of Immigration Appeals and the Administrative Appeals Office of the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Gardner has worked with clients from all over the world to obtain temporary and permanent visas through business investment including numerous successful applications for immigrant investor status through the EB5 program since its enactment in 1990. His approach to investor visas includes coordination of business, tax and estate planning with the most suitable visa options. He has lectured on Immigration Law matters including EB5 and other investment visas to professional groups in the United States and international audiences the United Kingdom, the Middle East and Asia.