Twenty years of building bridges, one case at a time.
From a one-attorney office in Buenos Aires to a firm trusted by clients in more than 70 countries — how SMA became a name immigrants and employers alike rely on.
A firm founded on the belief that immigration law should be practiced by people who've lived it.
SMA is a U.S. immigration and consular law firm headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, led by Steve Maggi, Esq. Maggi opened the firm's original office in Buenos Aires in 2004, making him the sole U.S. immigration attorney working out of his home country at the time. The firm relocated to New York City in 2011, where it began representing clients worldwide — among them companies sponsoring foreign employees and businesses expanding into the U.S. from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
Alongside that growth, SMA built out a substantial consular practice, handling B visas, waiver applications, immigrant visas, and a steady volume of E-2 investment-based visas for clients around the globe. In 2021, the firm's headquarters moved once more, this time to St. Petersburg, Florida, where SMA continues to serve its international client base today.
Founded in Buenos Aires
Steve Maggi opens SMA Law Firm in Argentina — at the time, the only U.S. immigration attorney practicing in his native country.
Expansion to New York City
The firm relocates to New York and begins serving a global client base, including companies sponsoring foreign talent and businesses expanding into the U.S. from around the world.
A growing consular practice
SMA builds deep experience representing clients on B visas, waivers, immigrant visas, and a significant volume of E-2 investor visa cases at consulates worldwide.
Main office moves to St. Petersburg, FL
SMA relocates its headquarters to Florida, where it continues to serve clients around the world in the same non-court-based immigration matters that have defined the firm from the start.
Steve Maggi, Esq.
"We've presented petitions in every existing visa category — O-1, L-1, E-2, EB-1A and EB-1C chief among them — because no two clients' paths to the U.S. look the same."
Steve Maggi is a Georgetown University Law Center graduate (2001) and an immigrant himself, originally from Argentina. That perspective shapes the firm's approach to non-court-based immigration matters — the kind of complex, detail-heavy work where a single overlooked requirement can derail a case.
Over more than twenty years, Steve and the SMA team have handled more than 2,000 cases for clients from over 70 countries, with petitions filed at U.S. embassies and consulates in over 50 locations worldwide.
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