Albert Gamil Eskalis, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Baltimore, MD

Albert Gamil Eskalis joined U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in 2014 and currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Citizenship and Applicant Information Services. Eskalis came to USCIS after a 26-year career as an active-duty Marine. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1988 and attended basic training at Parris Island, S.C. He was later commissioned as a Marine officer and completed his service as a senior communication strategist in the Pentagon. Eskalis served in multiple combat deployments, including Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and numerous tours in the Asia/Pacific region. He is a native of Alexandria, Egypt, where he lived with his parents and sister until they immigrated to the United States in 1979. Eskalis spent his formative years in New York and New Jersey, where his father Gamil and mother Bahgah worked tenaciously to create opportunities for their family and help the communities they now called home. He has been married to Lourdes Eskalis for 30 years, and together they have a son Ryan and twin daughters Rebecca and Ashley.