Bandita Sharma Dahal

Legal Advisor Vacant

Bandita Sharma-Dahal, Esq. is the founding member of Dahal & Associates LLC. Before starting her own practice, Ms. Sharma-Dahal was a partner in the Philadelphia branch of Chhetry and Associates, PC. Her practice is limited to immigration and nationality law. She has been practicing law for last 15 years.

Ms. Sharma-Dahal received her LL.M. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in New York. Ms. Sharma-Dahal is admitted to the New York Bar, District of Columbia, and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

As immigration law is not a state-regulated matter but a federal matter, Ms. Sharma-Dahal is able to assist clients nationwide. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York Bar Association, and DC Bar Association.

As a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, she keeps herself updated on the latest developments in U.S. immigration law, and she is dedicated to providing her clients with the highest level of service.

Being an immigrant herself, Ms. Sharma-Dahal feels closely connected to the immigrant community in the U.S., and she takes a personal interest in all the cases she handles. She has been in many panels discussing immigration law issues. She has been running an immigration law segment in ENepalese website on weekly basis for almost 6 years. She was doing immigration segment in fox five for about a year in the past.

Ms. Sharma-Dahal was born and raised in the South Asian country of Nepal. She has always been a passionate human rights advocate, and at the early age of 17, she was one of the founding members of the Forum for Women, Law and Development, an internationally recognized Nepal-based NGO. During her LL.M. at Touro Law Center, her concentration was in immigration law, human rights clinic, and sex-based discrimination. She was the recipient of the Touro Law Center public interest fellowship. She has interned at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York and worked as of-counsel for local attorneys.