About Our Attorneys
Carmel A. Capati
Carmel's immigration practice focuses on family-based immigrant visa petitions, waivers of inadmissibility due to extreme hardship, and asylum petitions (affirmative and defensive).
Prior to founding Apeiron Law Group, Carmel was the attorney-owner of Community Legal Services, a general practice firm primarily serving Southeast Asian families and other ethnic minority groups in Dane and Milwaukee Counties. Since 2004, Carmel has served as full-time Manager for the Court Interpreter Program with the Wisconsin Supreme Court's Director of State Courts Office. training and certifying interpreters to work in court. She has given extensive presentations to judges, court staff, clerks of court, attorneys, executive agencies, direct service providers and community advocates on federal and state laws requiring interpreters for the limited English proficient population to ensure equal access.
Carmel earned her undergraduate degree in Journalism from Marquette University in 1988 and after a brief stint working in New York for a publishing company served in the US Peace Corps in Liberia. Upon her return to the states, she worked in the non-profit sector in Washington, DC and Madison, WI. In 1995, Carmel obtained a Master's degree with distinction in Southeast Asian Studies and a law degree from the UW-Madison in 1998. She published an article entitled, "The Tragedy of Cluster Bombs in Laos: An Argument for Inclusion in the Proposed International Ban on Landmines" in the Wisconsin Law Journal, 16 Wis. Int'l Law Journal 227 (1997). She is licensed to practice law in the State of Wisconsin and the Eastern and Western US District Courts. She is a member in good standing of the Wisconsin State Bar. She is a current member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
Carmel is the sole-owner of Apeiron Law Group and is a first-generation immigrant. Contact her at capati@apeironlaw.com or 608.886.3906.
Prior to founding Apeiron Law Group, Carmel was the attorney-owner of Community Legal Services, a general practice firm primarily serving Southeast Asian families and other ethnic minority groups in Dane and Milwaukee Counties. Since 2004, Carmel has served as full-time Manager for the Court Interpreter Program with the Wisconsin Supreme Court's Director of State Courts Office. training and certifying interpreters to work in court. She has given extensive presentations to judges, court staff, clerks of court, attorneys, executive agencies, direct service providers and community advocates on federal and state laws requiring interpreters for the limited English proficient population to ensure equal access.
Carmel earned her undergraduate degree in Journalism from Marquette University in 1988 and after a brief stint working in New York for a publishing company served in the US Peace Corps in Liberia. Upon her return to the states, she worked in the non-profit sector in Washington, DC and Madison, WI. In 1995, Carmel obtained a Master's degree with distinction in Southeast Asian Studies and a law degree from the UW-Madison in 1998. She published an article entitled, "The Tragedy of Cluster Bombs in Laos: An Argument for Inclusion in the Proposed International Ban on Landmines" in the Wisconsin Law Journal, 16 Wis. Int'l Law Journal 227 (1997). She is licensed to practice law in the State of Wisconsin and the Eastern and Western US District Courts. She is a member in good standing of the Wisconsin State Bar. She is a current member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
Carmel is the sole-owner of Apeiron Law Group and is a first-generation immigrant. Contact her at capati@apeironlaw.com or 608.886.3906.