Holly R. McCurdy, Managing Attorney

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I have been practicing immigration law since 2019, and my work focuses primarily on employment-based immigration, including obtaining employment-based permanent residence for clients with extraordinary ability, outstanding achievements, and exceptional ability whose work will greatly benefit the nation. I have successfully worked with individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds, including cardiologists, electrical and mechanical engineers, food safety scientists, and more. I am also experienced in navigating the PERM process as well as assisting both industry and academic clients apply for temporary work visas for their employees, including H-1B, TN, and L petitions.

My practice also includes family-based immigration and naturalization. I have represented many clients applying through the “green card” process and have continued to represent and assist them throughout the next steps of renewing permanent residence and finally obtaining citizenship.

Prior to forming McCurdy Law, LLC, I worked as an associate attorney for several years at Nancy M. Vizer, P.C., a successful Chicago-based immigration law firm. Today I maintain an "of counsel" relationship with that firm.

Before I began practicing immigration law, I was representing individuals in domestic relations and debt collection matters, and I acquired several years of state and federal court litigation experience.

I received my J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2016, where I made the Dean’s List in 2015 and 2016 and earned certificates in International Law and Health Law. I also served on the Editorial Board of Loyola’s Annals of Health Law and published a student article in the journal in 2015. I received my B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Spanish from Northern Illinois University. 

I am a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the DuPage County Bar Association.

Nancy M. Vizer concentrates her practice in immigration law. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, where she has served on the Asylum, Ethics, Advocacy and Midwest Regional Conference Committees. Ms. Vizer is also a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, to better serve her university faculty clients. She is Past President of the North Suburban Bar Association, and has served on the Board of the Decalogue Society.

Ms. Vizer has experience in many aspects of immigration law, and has been a frequent speaker on continuing legal education panels, as well as outreach panels to community groups.

She has prepared and submitted hundreds of family and employment sponsored immigration applications, and has often served as pro bono counsel to asylum clients and other victims of violence and persecution. Besides family sponsored immigrants from all walks of life, Ms. Vizer has worked with business people from a range of industries, dozens of university faculty, as well as post doctoral researchers in fields ranging from psychology to nuclear physics and everywhere in between.

In addition to her law degree, Ms. Vizer was honored with a Masters in Business Administration, which helps her to understand the unique issues facing her corporate clients.

As an immigration attorney licensed in Illinois and Virginia, Ms. Vizer is authorized to represent clients before the appropriate government agencies anywhere in the United States, and works with clients in remote locations as often as with those in the Chicago area.

Ms. Vizer received a B.A. magna cum laude in English from Iona College, an M.B.A. cum laude from Georgetown University and a J.D. from George Mason University, where she served on the Civil Rights Law Journal and won two writing awards.