Charles F. Printz, Member of Teplen & Associates, PLLC

Mr. Printz is Special Counselor to Teplen & Associates, P.L.L.C. focusing on political asylum and international human rights with a special interest in women's human rights. He counsels the firm in areas that include J-1 waivers of the Home Country Requirement for foreign medical graduates based on either hardship or persecution, cancellation of removal in deportation cases, and specific immigration issues related to persecution, asylum, refugee and international law and national security. A graduate of Columbia Law, Member of the Bar, and a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Printz has over 30 years of international experience and refugee resettlement work with the U.S. Department of State, the Intelligence Community, and with international human rights organizations. He has traveled widely for the U.S. government, overseas in Southeast Asian and African countries, as well as postings to the United Nations and assignments for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Because of his Indochina experience, Mr. Printz was a guardian-ad-litem for Amerasian youth in Vietnam attempting unification with their U.S veteran fathers. Active in non-profit human rights work, he is a Director for the non-profit law group Human Rights Advocates International (HRAI) and the HRAI Alternate Representative to the United Nations. Mr. Printz's refugee work has been the subject of articles in the New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, and in Newsweek's Periscope feature. 

Specialties:

Political Asylum; International Human Rights; International Women's Human Rights; UN Refugee Convention