Professional Details

Cathy Higgins-Mora is a partner with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. She has dedicated her career to the practice of U.S. immigration and nationality law. She joined the firm in 2000.

Ms. Higgins-Mora represents global and local businesses, educational and medical institutions, law firms and entrepreneurs as well as individual foreign nationals and their families in the full scope of U.S. immigration and nationality matters, including family-based immigration petitions and applications; non-immigrant and immigrant employment and business visas; adjustment of status and immigrant visa processing; work place enforcement and employer sanctions issues; non-immigrant and immigrant investor visas; asylum and refugee matters; naturalization and citizenship applications; and deportation removal and defense.

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 HSPRD, 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 detained indefinitely.  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”).