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She concentrates her practice in all aspects of family and employment-based sponsorship, including temporary work visas, perm-based sponsorship, national interest waivers, EB-1 petitions and complex naturalization and citizenship cases. As the firm’s President, Ms. Burek relies on her depth of experience and dedication to the immigrant community to ensure that the firm competently represents the interests of its clients, with professionalism and skill necessary to achieve their immigration goals.

She is a weekly guest on Chicago’s Polish radio (Polski FM 92.7) and a frequent presenter at various immigration-related seminars at educational institutions, churches and professional and community organizations.

Ms. Burek received her bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) from Illinois Wesleyan University and her Juris Doctor degree (with high honors) from Chicago-Kent College of Law. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyer Association (national association of more than 13,500 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law).

She loves living here so much that she has become an American Citizen.

In Brazil, Viviane earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (equivalent to Juris Doctor) from Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city where she first became a licensed attorney. She worked in several firms, and also as an intern in the Ministerio Publico of the State of Sao Paulo (District Attorney’s Office), which allowed her to have experience in different fields of law.

In the United States, Viviane pursued a Master’s Degree in American Law from Boston University and became a licensed attorney in the State of Massachusetts.

Viviane is very excited to have the opportunity to help all of her clients. Being able to work with the Brazilian Community and work with her compatriots, who feel comfortable speaking to their attorney in their first language, is very rewarding to her. She feels grateful to see her clients achieving their dreams and to be able to develop her expertise on behalf her clients.

She is dedicated and enjoys working with a variety of people, and her high communication and customer service skills surely make a difference. When leading her cases, she interviews her clients and thoroughly investigates the details to make her client’s cases stronger. With her diverse legal background and work experience, she is committed to putting her training in practice to effectively solve the problems of those in need of representation.

That includes temporary and permanent employment and family-based immigration, asylum, consular processing, and citizenship matters.

He has represented clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. consular posts around the world. Prior to joining HSPRD, Mr. Krug practiced immigration and nationality law for six years in Chicago.