California State Bar Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law since 1992—a credential held by fewer than 200 California attorneys—Jan Joseph Bejar has run his Hillcrest immigration firm at 3230 Fifth Avenue since founding it in 1984, with more than 11,000 immigration matters filed across four decades of practice. The crimmigration side of the firm—removal defense triggered by criminal arrests, post-conviction relief, and Padilla advisals—coordinates regularly with criminal defense counsel at Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers when underlying federal charges drive the immigration consequences. Bejar earned his JD from USD School of Law in 1983 and served as Adjunct Professor and Director of the USD School of Law Immigration Law Clinic from 1994 through 2013, training two decades of immigration attorneys now practicing across Southern California. The firm holds admissions to the U.S. District Court Southern District of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court bar, with Bejar previously serving as Vice Chapter Chair of the AILA San Diego chapter. Marriage-based green card and K-1 fiancé visa cases that involve concurrent California family court proceedings cross-reference the dissolution and custody bench at Matteson & Matteson Family Law when divorce timing affects derivative status. Ninth Circuit appeals from Board of Immigration Appeals removal orders, particularly cases turning on aggravated-felony classification or particular-social-group asylum theories, represent the firms highest-stakes appellate work.