Margaret
H. (“Peggy”) McCormick
is a Principal in the law firm of Minsky, McCormick &
Hallagan, P.C., and has been practicing exclusively in the
field of immigration law for over thirty years.
From 1999 until 2003, she served as National
President of the American Immigration Law Foundation, a
non-profit organization established in 1987. During
her tenure, she established the Professional Accomplishments:
2010-Present: Committee Chair, ICE Workplace Enforcement Committee, Chicago Chapter of AILA.
1986-Present:
Adjunct Professor
of immigration law at
2000:
Appointed Master Teacher of Immigration Law
for
Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
1999-2003: President
of the
Board of Directors
of
the American
Immigration Law Foundation, a national organization
established to provide public policy research on the impact
of immigration, to document the value of immigration to the
1997-1998:Elected national President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a national bar association of over 10,000 immigration lawyers; 1990-Present: Member of the national AILA Board of Governors. 1989-90: Chair of AILA Greater
2009-Present: Treasurer, Federal Bar Association,
1992-1996; 2004-Present:
Member
of the Federal Bar
Association Board of Directors,
2004-2008: Member of the Board of Directors of the American Refugee Committee, an international humanitarian assistance organization providing relief and recovery services to refugees and displaced persons around the world.
1994: Appointed by the Mayor of
Chicago to serve on the
Citizenship
Assistance Council.
1992-1995: Appointed to the Section Council, International and Immigration Law,
1990:
Appointed by the Mayor of Chicago to serve on the
Council on Immigrant
and Refugee Affairs.
1983-85:
Chair and
Vice-Chair of the
1980-Present:
Regular contributing author and speaker in programs on
immigration law sponsored by the American Immigration
Lawyers Association (AILA), The Chicago Bar Association
(CBA), the Federal Bar Association (FBA), the Practicing Law
Institute (PLI), The Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal
Education (IICLE), NAFSA: Association of International
Educators; Lorman Seminars; various law schools.
1978-1980:
Staff attorney for Travelers & Immigrants Aid. Fluent in
Spanish
Published
Papers:
"Excludable and Deportable Aliens" --1980 Immigration Law Manual Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (updates 1986, 1988). "Waivers Under the Immigration and Nationally Act" --AILA: Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, 1988 (updates 1989 and 1990); "Immigration Selection System" --AILA: Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, 1991; "Labor Certification for Alien Beneficiary Shareholders" –AILA: Labor Certification Practice and Procedure, 1990; "Role of the State Department in the Implementation of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990" --Practicing Law Institute: 24th Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute, 1991; "Non-Immigrants” --Immigration Symposium at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1991; "The Doctrine of Consular Non-reviewability Applied to a Challenge to a State Department Advisory Opinion"-- AILA, A Guide to Visa Processing at U.S. Consulates and Embassies, 1991;
"Obtaining H-3 Classification" AILA: Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, 1992; "Immigration of Foreign Scientists Through Non-academic Employers" AILA, 1993; "B-1 Temporary Visitor for Business" Practicing Law Institute, 1994; “Finding the Correct Wage for LCAs: Recent Developments in H-1B Practice” Immigration Briefings, April, Federal Publications, Inc. 1995; “LCA Compliance and the Roving Employee” AILA: Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, 1996; “Does the EB-2/EB-3 Distinction Matter Anymore?” AILA, 2001; “The Visa Waiver Program” AILA, Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook,2002; “Inalienable Right” Illinois Issues, 2005; “What the Immigration Conundrum Portends: ICE in the Workplace” Public Interest Law Reporter, Loyola School of Law (2008); “Agencies That Affect Immigration Law”--AILA Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, 2009 (in progress).
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