Marcela Mendoza: Founder and Principal Attorney
Marcela Mendoza, an immigrant herself, has a key understanding of the importance and life-changing effects of visa approvals. Marcela is fluent in Spanish and through her 20 years of experience in the area of immigration law, and working with clients of many nationalities and cultures, has gained a unique, innate ability to help shape people's true goals and dreams. Marcela partners with clients, and based on their particular challenges and goals, she advises companies and individuals on applying or adjusting immigration programs to create and implement strategic and innovative workforce immigration solutions. Her work also includes handling sophisticated, high-stakes immigration compliance, global mobility, formation and development of internal immigration policies. Clients range from individuals and families to major corporations in all industries including, construction, information technologies, mining and engineering, medical, educational and telecommunication. Pertinent background also includes experience in Corporate Diversity Counseling, advising clients in diversity representation, diversity compliance reviews, internal legal vulnerability assessments and planning on diversity enhancement action plans.
Her expertise includes temporary, nonimmigrant visa processes including B, F, H, J, K, L, O, P, R, TN, and international travel. She also assists Legal Permanent Residents (LPR), and foreign born individuals with the US naturalization process. She manages the permanent, green card processes for multinational managers and individuals of extraordinary ability (EB-1), bachelor’s degree professionals and advanced degree professionals (EB-2 and EB-3), and labor certification (PERM) for skilled and unskilled workers.
Ms. Mendoza is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association AILA, American Bar Association (ABA), Women Owned law Firms (WOLF) and Adams County Bar Association.