Nadine Kassem
Nadine Kassem is the daughter of immigrants from a small, impoverished village in Lebanon, and she watched up close what her parents had to endure to build a life here. Her interest in immigration law grew out of that, and out of a parallel interest in human behavior.
She studied Human Psychology and Philosophy at Wayne State University, graduating cum laude, then earned her Juris Doctor with honors from Michigan State University College of Law.
She spent two terms in MSU's immigration clinic, where she took on asylum claims, U visas, VAWA petitions, unaccompanied minors, and naturalization matters, attended USCIS interviews, and wrote appellate briefs to the Sixth Circuit. She deepened that foundation deliberately through her coursework, taking immigration consequences of criminal acts, asylum and refugee law, constitutional law, and wrongful convictions.
She joined the firm as a new graduate and has been here since. She advocates for clients at USCIS interviews and in Immigration Court, and has completed the civil facilitative mediation training required for the court roster under MCR 2.411.
Her practice spans family-based petitions, naturalization, waivers, and employment immigration — H-1B, L-1, and TN visas, PERM labor certifications, and employment-based green cards — before USCIS and the Immigration Court. The psychology background is not incidental to any of it: much of immigration practice is reading what a client is not saying, and building a record that a stranger reviewing it years later will find credible.
She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and serves clients in Arabic.
Practice focus
- Family immigration
- Employment immigration
- Waivers
- Naturalization
Credentials
- State Bar of Michigan
- J.D. with honors, Michigan State University College of Law
- B.A. cum laude, Wayne State University
- Civil facilitative mediation training, MCR 2.411