About Carolina Martin
Carolina Martin Ramos earned her law degree from the University of New Mexico in 2009 after a circuit of studies that covered the University of Guanajuato and earlier work in schooling and the humanities. Her academic trail ranges from a great arts program in Guangzhou within the Nineteen Eighties to ethnic research at San Francisco State University within the early Nineteen Nineties, and later credentialing in education at California State University campuses. She also pursued graduate work in instructional psychology at CSU Long Beach. The range of her studies preceded a shift into regulation that culminated in a J.D. and access into public defense and immigration practice.
Ramos started her professional legal career in New Mexico public defense. She served as an assistant public defender in Santa Fe and later handled serious violent felonies for the New Mexico Law Office of the Public Defender. Those years in felony courtroom knowledgeable her view of how immigration consequences intersect with criminal cases. In 2012 she moved into roles that bridged felony protection and immigration advocacy, including a role as immigration counsel with the New Mexico Public Defender Department and the formation of her personal practice entity, Justicia Digna, LLC. By 2015 she used to be operating the Immigration Law Office of Carolina Martin Ramos, persevering with to advise clients on immigration matters alongside protection work.
Her expert affiliations reflect sustained involvement in both immigration and felony law groups. She has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 2010 and participates in state bar sections relevant to her work. She chaired the Immigration Section of the New Mexico State Bar Association starting in 2015 and has served on the forums of the Indian Law Section and the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association. She is also a member of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
Ramos is licensed to practice federal immigration law across all 50 states and is permitted to practice in New Mexico. That authorization underpins a practice that sits the place immigration regulation and criminal regulation meet: removal defense, relief purposes, and counseling on collateral immigration penalties of criminal charges. Her trial experience in felony cases remains part of her toolkit when addressing complicated immigration problems triggered by criminal matters.
She keeps offices that include a Vista, California location and operations beneath Justicia Digna, LLC. She presently handles immigration and criminal-immigration matters from her workplaces in California and New Mexico, operating with individuals facing removal, seeking relief, or confronting immigration consequences of criminal charges.
