Our People

Janice has been working in the field of US visa and nationality law for more than 25 years both in her native Chicago and the United Kingdom. In 2023 Who’s Who Legal recognised her as a Thought Leader in Corporate Immigration Law.

Janice regularly advises individuals and multinational companies on their overall U.S. visa strategy. She has a particular expertise with E-1 Treaty Trader and E-2 Treaty Investor, H-1B Professional Worker, L-1 Intra-Company Transferee and Employment-Based Immigrant visa categories. Her experience encompasses a wide range of US visa and nationality matters, including family-based visas in addition to employment-based visas and US nationality issues including the acquisition and loss of US citizenship with focuses on consular processing, maintaining Lawful Permanent Residency (aka “green card”) status and US entry and boarding issues at US ports of entry and Pre-Clearance locations and airports across the globe.

Janice is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) holding leadership positions of. She has been a member of AILA’s National Customs and Border Protection Liaison committee for several years and is the current Chair of AILA’s Rome District Chapter’s Government committee and a previous Chair of the Rome District Chapter’s Executive Committee. She is also a member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), a global alliance of business immigration lawyers.

She graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (formerly The John Marshall Law School) in 2003 and admitted to the Illinois state bar. Prior to earning her law degree, she was awarded a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her junior year of university at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Janice is a former Trustee and current Ambassador for icap (Immigrant Counselling & Psychotherapy) which is a registered British charity providing high-quality counselling and psychotherapy principally to Irish immigrants in the United Kingdom.

Janice is a native Chicagoan who is a dual US and Irish citizen living and has been working in the UK since 2005. She lives near London with her husband and their dogs, Daisy and Rosie, and enjoys going for long walks in the countryside. She is trying to improve her Spanish and she tries to keep fit with Pilates and running.

Rikki joined Flynn Hodkinson in 2018 and handles a wide variety of cases for both corporate and private individual clients. She handles applications for family and employment based permanent residency, as well as a range of non-immigrant options such as E-1 traders, E-2 investors, H-1B specialty occupations, L-1 intra-company transferees, and O-1s of extraordinary ability. She also handles complex acquisition of citizenship matters and inadmissibility issues.

Rikki is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is also a member of the New York State Bar Association.

In 2017, Rikki was admitted to the New York bar after graduating summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University College of Law where she also received a Certificate in International Law. She then went on to earn her LLM (Master of Laws) in Human Rights from UCL in London. Prior to law school, she graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies. Rikki moved to the UK in 2016 and lives in South London with her wife, two children, and their rambunctious staffie-cross.

Originally from France and Vietnam and grew up in the United States, Laura joined Flynn Hodkinson as an Associate Lawyer in May 2023. She focuses her practice on employment-based work visas such as the E-2 Treaty Investor, E-1 Treaty Trader, L-1 Intra-Company Transferee and O-1 Extraordinary Ability categories and also family-based and consular processing cases.

Prior to moving to the UK, Laura handled a wide range of employment, family, and humanitarian-based immigration matters at a boutique immigration law firm based in her hometown of Washington, DC. She has also volunteered to assist individuals at the US-Mexico border in drafting their asylum applications and preparing for their hearings. Laura completed her Juris Doctor at The University of Sydney Law School in Sydney, Australia in 2019 and was admitted to the New York bar in 2020. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2016.

Rebekah has worked with Flynn Hodkinson since April 2017, initially for work experience, before joining the firm as a Legal Assistant in August 2017, then as a Junior Paralegal until being promoted to the position of US Visa and Nationality Law Paralegal. She began her career with our firm after completing her Legal Secretary Diploma in Kent.

As a Paralegal, Rebekah is a key part of our firm’s success as she ensures effective management of the office continuing to give our clients a personalized experience while our firm has grown. Over the last two years, she has specialized in her greatest area of interest – family-based immigration petitions. However, whether Rebekah is working with a large company or on a family-based petition, she skilfully drafts applications with great attention to detail. Rebekah is also responsible for scheduling Embassy appointments and communicating with the Embassy when necessary.

When she is not at work, Rebekah enjoys spending time with her son and her dogs. She is an enthusiastic equestrian, and regularly partakes in Show Jumping competitions at the weekends. She has a love of the great outdoors and spends as much time outside as possible.

Grace joined Flynn Hodkinson in February 2024 as a Client Support Assistant. Originally from Los Angeles, California, Grace moved to the UK in September 2023 to pursue a masters in Comparative Literature at University College London. Prior to moving to the UK, Grace was a Paralegal and Legal Assistant at a boutique family and matrimonial law firm in New York, New York.

Grace graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2021 with a major in Culture and Politics and a minor in Spanish. While at Georgetown, Grace interned and worked for a variety of organizations including the Smithsonian Institution, the Office of Congressman Adam Schiff, and the Georgetown University Office of Undergraduate Admissions. In her free time, Grace enjoys cooking, reading, and watching film.