Sanabria & Associates

What Sanabria & Associates does

Sanabria & Associates PLLC is a privately held immigration and family law firm founded by Gunther Sanabria, Esq., who emigrated from Peru in 1991 and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2004 and the District of Columbia Bar in 2006. The firm operates 15+ physical offices across Maryland (Silver Spring, Langley Park, Baltimore, Laurel, Chillum), Virginia (Manassas), Washington DC, and Florida (Doral, Kendall, Brickell, Homestead, Orlando, Jacksonville), serving immigrant communities throughout the DMV corridor and Florida. Its core services include family-based immigration petitions, humanitarian relief (asylum, U-visas, T-visas, VAWA), removal defense, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) for vulnerable minors, employment-based visas, and adjacent criminal defense and personal injury work that often intersects with immigration consequences.

The firm runs on industry-standard legal practice management software with a client portal and third-party payment processing through Confido Legal, with no proprietary technology platform or AI-driven capabilities disclosed. Its go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, leveraging a multilingual attorney team (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian), free initial consultations, 24/7 phone intake, organic SEO, and an active social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and a dedicated Spanish-language website (es.slegal.com). Revenue is generated through professional-services fees paid by individual clients for consultations and ongoing legal representation, with no disclosed institutional customers, funding rounds, or external ownership.

As of the most recent data, the firm reports 60 employees, 12,000 satisfied clients served cumulatively, and 4,000 consultations per month across its offices. Leadership is anchored by President Gunther Sanabria, with a partner track including Monica Hernandez-Santiago (Mentorship Partner), Anna Asgari-Johnson (Chief of Staff), Jose Zelada (General Practice Partner), and Orlanmarie Valcarcel (Partner, Florida Region). The Privacy Policy explicitly states there is no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no external institutional investors, indicating an independently held professional practice scaled through reinvestment of professional fees.

Name

Sanabria & Associates

Legal name

Sanabria & Associates PLLC

Website

https://slegal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sanabria & Associates is a privately held immigration and family law firm operating 15+ offices across Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, and Florida, serving immigrant communities with multilingual attorneys handling family petitions, humanitarian relief, removal defense, and SIJS cases.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immigration Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110), Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Immigration Law (BPAHAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Immigration Legal Services & Representation (Law Firms) (THACAKAF), Diaspora, Family Reunification & Case Management Services (BPADAHAM), Asylum & Refugee Status Determination (RSD) Support (BPADAHAB), Immigration Legal Advisory & Representation (Student Visas) (EDAIADAB)

Keywords

• Immigration legal services
• Removal defense representation
• Family-based immigration
• Humanitarian immigration relief
• Special immigrant juvenile status

Headquarters

HQ city

Silver Spring

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices15 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Immigration: Legal fee revenue from immigration services including family-based immigration, humanitarian petitions, removal defense, employment visas, asylum, and SIJS cases. Revenue is generated through consultation fees and ongoing legal representation fees.
2. Legal Services - Family Law: Legal fee revenue from SIJS (Special Immigrant Juvenile Status) cases and family law matters. The firm handles custody proceedings and juvenile immigration status applications.
3. Legal Services - Criminal Defense: Legal fee revenue from criminal defense services including DUI, domestic violence, and other criminal charges, often intersecting with immigration consequences.
4. Legal Services - Personal Injury: Legal fee revenue from personal injury and accident cases including workplace accidents and automobile accidents.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Sanabria & Associates is a multi-location law firm providing immigration, family law (SIJS), criminal defense, and personal injury legal services to individual clients. The firm delivers full-spectrum immigration representation including family-based petitions, humanitarian relief (asylum, U-visas, T-visas), removal defense, employment visas, and naturalization, with offices across Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, and Florida.

Product overview

Sanabria & Associates is a law firm providing legal services, not a technology product company. The firm operates as a multi-location immigration and family law practice with the following core service offerings: Immigration Law Services (full-spectrum), Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), Family-Based Immigration, Humanitarian Petitions, Removal Defense, and Employment Visas. The firm has offices across Maryland, Virginia, DC, and Florida, serving clients nationwide. The 'products' are legal service categories offered to clients seeking immigration and family law representation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Immigration Law Services

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Boundless: Tech-enabled immigration services platform targeting direct-to-consumer immigration filings (notably family-based green cards and naturalization). Represents the digital-first competitive threat to traditional immigration firms like Sanabria by offering lower-priced, partially automated filings for the same customer base.
• RapidVisa: Online immigration services platform focused on family-based petitions, especially fiancé and spouse visas. Competes with Sanabria for the same direct-to-consumer immigration clients with a streamlined, lower-cost digital model rather than a multi-office law firm model.

Broad incumbents

• Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy: The largest global corporate immigration law firm, serving employers and individuals across all major visa categories. Comparable to Sanabria as a dedicated immigration practice, but operating at vastly larger scale and focused on corporate/employer sponsorship rather than direct-to-consumer immigrant services.
• Berry Appleman & Leiden (BAL): Large global immigration law firm with both corporate and individual practice arms. Comparable as a full-service immigration provider, though it skews more toward enterprise/employer clients than Sanabria's community-rooted direct-to-consumer model.

Direct peers

• Siskind Susser Bland: Memphis-based immigration law firm with a national family-based immigration practice, also handling asylum, removal defense, and employment visas. Directly comparable service mix to Sanabria across all major immigration practice areas.
• Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP: Boutique immigration law firm with a strong direct-to-consumer and family-based immigration practice. Directly comparable to Sanabria in service mix (family petitions, asylum, removal defense) and client orientation, though concentrated in California rather than the East Coast/Florida.
• Jackson Law Group: Mid-sized immigration and family law firm with multi-state presence handling family-based immigration, removal defense, and humanitarian petitions. Comparable in size, practice mix, and direct-to-consumer immigrant client focus to Sanabria.
• Maggio + Kattar: DC-based immigration and human rights law firm handling asylum, humanitarian relief, and removal defense. Directly comparable to Sanabria's humanitarian and removal defense practices and serves a similar immigrant community in the DMV area.
• Klatzkin & Associates: Immigration and nationality law firm with multiple offices. Overlaps with Sanabria in family-based immigration, asylum, and removal defense, and competes for similar individual immigrant clients in the Mid-Atlantic region.
• Law Office of Rahul Manchanda: Immigration and nationality law firm with offices across multiple states handling family-based immigration, deportation defense, asylum, and employment visas. Directly comparable service offering and multi-office operating model to Sanabria.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@sanabriaassociates
• Facebookfacebook.com/gunthersanabriaslegal
• Instagraminstagram.com/sanabrialaw
• TikToktiktok.com/@abogadosanabria

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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