Our People

Janice has been working in the field of US visa and nationality law for more than 20 years. In 2012, she founded her own US visa and nationality practice focusing on the well-being of the client as they proceed through what can be a very stressful process.

Janice regularly advises individuals and multinational companies on their overall U.S. immigration strategy. Her experience encompasses a wide range of US visa and nationality matters, including family and employment-based visas and US nationality issues including the acquisition and loss of US citizenship with focuses on consular processing and US entry issues at US ports of entry and pre-clearance locations across the globe.

Janice is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) holding positions of leadership and is currently the Vice Chair of the Rome District-EMEA Chapter and a member of AILA’s National Customs and Border Protection Liaison committee. She graduated from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois and was admitted to the Illinois state bar in 2004. Prior to earning her law degree, she earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago and studied during her junior year of university at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Janice is the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees 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 who has been living and working in the UK since 2005. She lives near London with her husband and her dog Daisy, and enjoys going for long walks in the countryside.

Rikkilee has been with Flynn Hodkinson since 2018 and handles a wide variety of cases including family-based and employment-based permanent residency, E-1 traders, E-2 investors, L-1 intra-company transfers, O-1s of extraordinary ability, acquisition of citizenship, and inadmissibility issues.

Before moving to London, Rikkilee volunteered with the non-profit organization World Relief. There she gained experience with naturalization, adjustment of status, and DACA cases. She also previously worked as a Legal-Aid Clinic Coordinator for a large homeless shelter outside of Chicago where she assisted clients with a range of legal issues as well as coordinated pro-bono representation.

Rikkilee has a strong passion for anti-trafficking and continues to raise awareness for the issue of modern-day slavery. She is a twice published author; her most recent article focuses on the challenges facing victims of trafficking when they attempt to seek asylum.

Rikkilee was admitted to the New York bar in 2017 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. Rikkilee moved to the UK in the fall of 2016 and lives in South London with her wife, son, and their rambunctious staffie-cross.

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.

Charis Started at Hodkinson Law Group in 2013 as a Business Administrator, and became a Legal Assistant in 2015. She studied Psychology at The University of the West of England, Bristol and graduated in 2011. Charis enjoys traveling, and her favourite trips include camping inside the Arctic Circle in Norway, traveling by train through Russia and Mongolia, and eating her way around Japan. Since becoming a mother in 2018 her free time is spent in less adventurous ways, and now she can mostly be found at home knitting and sewing her way to a handmade wardrobe.