Meet Your Attorneys
Legal Team at Sweet & Paciorek LLC
Lindsey E. Sweet, Esq.
Anna Paciorek, Esq.
Anna Paciorek is one of the founding partners of Sweet & Paciorek, LLC.
A native of Warsaw, Poland, Anna Paciorek immigrated to the United States in 1988. A transplant to Philadelphia, she then graduated from Temple University with degrees in History, French, and Philosophy in 1998. In 2001, she received her L.L.M. in Transnational Law and J.D. from the James Beasley School of Law at Temple University. Anna has worked with the immigrant community in Philadelphia since her arrival in the United States and has been licensed as an attorney since 2004. Anna is admitted to practice in the state of New York and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Before joining forces with Lindsey Sweet, Anna was employed as a staff attorney for over a decade at Nationalities Service Center (NSC), a Philadelphia nonprofit agency that services immigrants and refugees. During her time at NSC, Anna managed a case load of hundreds of asylum, removal defense, “crimmigration”, family based, Violence Against Women Act and citizenship cases, all while supervising generations of legal interns. She has worked directly with victims of torture through the Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience, a joint project between NSC and HIAS and has done extensive work with victims of domestic violence especially in the asylum context. She has also directly instructed students and interns both as an adjunct professor at Temple Law School and as the intern coordinator at NSC. Anna has served on the American Immigration Lawyers Association USCIS liaison committee Philadelphia Chapter for many years and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Asylum Committee for the Philadelphia Chapter. She has given many trainings to the immigration and non-immigration bar on asylum, removal and family based matters.
Anna’s areas of expertise include asylum, removal defense litigation, and family based cases. Anna now manages the Philadelphia office of Sweet & Paciorek, LLC, where she leads the litigation arm of the firm and supervises the majority of student legal interns. Anna also volunteers as the Chair of the Host Committee for Global Tastes, NSC’s annual fundraising gala. She was named a 2018 Top Lawyer in Immigration Law by Main Line Today Magazine.
Jessica Promes, Esq.
Jessica Promes joined Sweet & Paciorek, LLC in June of 2023 as an associate attorney. Jessica obtained her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston and her bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University. A native of Venezuela, Jessica is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Jessica began her career as an LOPC Attorney at Catholic Charities of Boston where she provided free orientations to the sponsors of unaccompanied children. She has since worked in private immigration firms and has experience in many different facets of immigration law. Her current focus is family based immigration and humanitarian visas. She has been a practicing immigration attorney since 2019.