Mara S. Mijal
Practice Focus:
Immigration
Contact Information
Norfolk Office
500 World Trade Center
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
(757) 446-8600
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Mara is an attorney with Vandeventer Black and concentrates her law practice in immigration matters. She advises companies and individuals on all aspects of immigration strategy for temporary employment and permanent residence options in the United States. She also assists employers with compliance of the employer sanction provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, including counsel on the implementation of the I-9 form and avoiding civil and criminal fines and penalities under the Act.
She earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Minnesota and a J.D. from The College of William and Mary School of Law. Mara is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Virginia Bar Association and the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association.
She has worked for Vandeventer Black since 1998, first as an immigration case manager, then a summer associate and currently as an attorney. Mara also served as a summer associate at the Norfolk office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2002.
She is the author of “U.S. Immigration Benefits for Same Sex Couples: Green Cards for Gay Partners?” William & Mary Journal of Women & the Law, Vol. 9.