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Download vCard| Cathy Higgins-Mora has dedicated her career to the practice of U.S. immigration and nationality law. She represents individual clients and small and large corporations in temporary and permanent employment and family-based immigration, removal defense, consular processing, and U.S. citizenship matters. She is fluent in Spanish. |
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Experience: Ms. Higgins-Mora has substantial experience in preparing both employment-based and family-based permanent residency cases. She routinely represents clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor and numerous U.S. consular posts worldwide. Prior to joining Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., Ms. Higgins-Mora was an extern at the Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center (now the National Immigrant Justice Center), where she was involved in significant lobbying efforts on behalf of individuals being indefinitely detained by the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. She also prepared a manual and trained pro bono attorneys how to represent clients under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 ("NACARA"). |
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Honors, Education, and Activities: Ms. Higgins-Mora is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association ("AILA"). Ms. Higgins-Mora served as a co-chair of the Young Lawyers Committee for the Chicago AILA Chapter from 2002-03. She currently serves on various AILA committees. In addition, she is a member of the National Lawyers Guild National Immigration Project and the American Bar Association. She has degrees from Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1999 and DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) B.A., Sociology, cum laude, 1995. |
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