Crossing Borders: Understanding Immigration Law's Overlaps with Other Practice Areas

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Lindsay A. Curcio has practiced U.S. immigration law since 1990. She has been a solo practitioner since October 2000. Originally from Chicago, previously based in Brooklyn, New York, Attorney Curcio is now in Niagara Falls, NY (western New York state). Her practice includes employment-based and family-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas as well as waivers, removal defense, asylum, naturalization, and U.S. citizenship issues. Attorney Curcio taught immigration law as an adjunct professor at New York Law School and Molloy College. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She frequently writes and presents on topics in U.S. immigration law. She is a co-author of the first edition of Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies (Lexis/Carolina Academic Press, 2013). She was a co-director of New York Law School's Justice Action Center's Safe Passage Immigration Project from 2007 to 2012. She has received the Super Lawyers designation for immigration law for her work in the NY Metro Area and subsequently Upstate NY. Attorney Curcio was awarded a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Northwestern University, a juris doctor degree from IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law, an MBA from Fordham University, an LLM in Transnational Commercial Practice from the Center for International Legal Studies/Lazarski University, and a graduate certificate in Health Care Compliance from the University of Pittsburgh Law School.