Charles M. Miller
Charles M. Miller founded the Miller Law Offices in 1979 after serving as a General Attorney for the legacy U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He is a California State Bar Certified Immigration Law Specialist and helped to establish immigration law as a field of legal specialization in California, serving the State Bar’s Specialty Advisory Commission both as chairman and member.
Mr. Miller was named one of the 2017 “Lawyers of the Year” in Immigration Law by Best Lawyers Business Edition and has also been honored by Best Lawyers in America from 1991 through the present. He has a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV Preeminent (5.0), representing the highest level of professional excellence. Together with firm counselTerri Senesac Miller, Mr. Miller has received the Jack Wasserman Memorial Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). His past service to AILA includes membership on its Board of Directors, Southern California Chapter Chair, chair of its Visa Office Liaison Committee, and chair of its Compliance Auditing Standards Task Force. He has served as the co-chair of AILA’s national Verification and Worksite Enforcement Liaison Committee.
Mr. Miller has written and spoken nationally on cutting-edge issues in immigration law. His latest book, ABA Immigration Compliance and Best Practices provides the private bar with hard-to-find information regarding immigration compliance solutions that rivals the resources found on the desks of government attorneys.
He is also the co-author of Immigration Compliance Auditing for Lawyers (American Bar Association), which analyzes the federal law and policy pertaining to immigration compliance auditing. He has also served as co-director and moderator of the Worksite Immigration Compliance Symposium at Stanford Law School.
Charles Miller is admitted to practice in California.
Seth M. Miller – Counsel
Seth M. Miller, J.D., M.F.A. advises clients in business, entertainment, and family-related immigration matters. His areas of focus include nonimmigrant classifications – particularly H-1B specialty occupation workers, O-1 individuals of extraordinary ability or achievement, P-1 athletes, artists, and entertainers, and TN professional workers under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement – as well as employment- and family-based permanent residence and applications for naturalization.
Mr. Miller brings a unique professional background to the practice of immigration law, including considerable experience within the entertainment industry both as a television producer and a professional actor. As a producer, he worked on programs for NBC, ESPN, MTV, Bravo, and various other networks and platforms; as an actor, he appeared as a guest star and co-star in programs for ABC, the CW, and the Disney Channel, and was also featured in several commercials. He has been a member of the Producers Guild of America since 2013 and a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1997.
He is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), including membership in its New England and Southern California chapters.
Mr. Miller holds a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School, where he received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award; a Master of Fine Arts degree from Chapman University Film School, where he was a recipient of the Marion Knott Fellowship; and a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in Media Studies from Pitzer College.
Seth Miller has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as a 2023 “Ones to Watch in America” honoree.
He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and California.
Terri Senesac Miller – Counsel
Terri Senesac Miller formerly served the legacy U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Washington D.C., and Manila, Philippines, and was honored with the Justice Department’s Special Achievement Award and Outstanding Performance Award. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California Law School and a California State Bar Certified Immigration Law Specialist.
Ms. Miller has been recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding corporate immigration attorneys. She was named one of the 2017 “Lawyers of the Year” in Immigration Law by Best Lawyers Business Edition and has also been honored by Best Lawyers in America and by Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers. Together with firm partner Charles Miller, Ms. Miller has also received the Jack Wasserman Memorial Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.