Millicent Y. Clarke

Clarke and Associates is the number one immigration firm on Long Island. It is "second to none," and the only objectives are, to make differences in the lives of others, and help them live the "American Dream." Millicent Y. Clarke, Esq. has practiced Immigration Law for over 30 years. Upon graduation from law school, she was selected as a United States Department of Justice Honors Graduate. Ms. Clarke’s first legal position with the United States Justice Department was as a General Attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Millicent Y. Clarke, Esq. has practiced Immigration Law for over 30 years. Upon graduation from law school, she was selected as a United States Department of Justice Honors Graduate. Ms. Clarke’s first legal position with the United States Justice Department was as a General Attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), now Department of Homeland Security, in Chicago. While serving in that capacity, she represented then INS, before the Immigration Court, served as a designated Naturalization Examiner, and defended the former INS in equal employment opportunity cases. Ms. Clarke’s professional path subsequently led her to the United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, (OIL) in Washington, D.C., where she authored appellate briefs and argued cases before the various United States Courts of Appeals, nationwide. While at OIL, she was responsible for a number of precedent decisions involving the development of the appellate law pertaining to in absentia hearings. In April of 1986, Ms. Clarke began working as a Special Assistant for the INS at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. She was responsible for the prosecution and defense of all cases arising under the Immigration and Nationality Act, including the preparation of INS search warrants for presentation to the Federal Magistrate Judge, in that district, which is comprised of Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. She successfully prosecuted and defended a number of high profile cases and cases of first impression in Immigration and International law. They included, inter alia, the first effort to denaturalize and deport a Jewish Nazi collaborator, as well as the defense of Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti, who was at the time, in exile, in the United States. She defended, over a four-year period, a complex class action federal tort claim and Bivens action involving the detention of excludable aliens.