Christopher Helt, Esq. was born in Chicago and attended Loyola Academy, Loyola University Chicago, and Loyola University’s School of Law, and is the managing member of The Helt Law Group, LLC. His practice concentrates in federal immigration litigation involving political asylum, refugee law and deportation/removal proceeding matters before the U.S. immigration court (the Executive Office for Immigration Review) and federal court. He has attained an “AV” (Preeminent Rating) lawyer-rating by his peers, the highest lawyer-rating possible by Martindale-Hubble.

Mr. Helt has been twice-qualified as an expert witness in federal jury trials for immigration/asylum-related matters, and is a member of the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the bar to U.S. Supreme Court, amongst other bar admissions. He is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in American law and has appeared on CNN, WBBM-TV, WLS, FOX NEWS, BBC and NPR radio. His cases and clients also have been featured on a regular basis in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times. He has appeared on national ABC, NBC, CBS news and news programs, (Dan Rather's Eye on America, interview of Mr. Helt, CNN national news, and on the front page of the _New York Time_s and featured in Time Magazine.

Mr. Helt has appeared on the covers of Chicago Lawyer Magazine (“New Era of Immigration Law”) and was featured and in a Chicago Reporter Magazine cover story entitled “Winning Asylum”.

Mr. Helt has taught courses on immigration policy as an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University of Chicago.

Mr. Helt is a 2015 Illinois SuperLawyer.