Dana R. Bucin

Dana R. Bucin is a partner and chair of Murtha Cullina's Immigration practice.

Dana represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters.

As an immigration attorney with a business/corporate legal background, Dana's experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card based on such investment or entrepreneurship pursuant to the E-2, L-1 “new office,” H-1B “entrepreneur” and EB-5 visa options. 

Dana regularly provides multilingual legal representation in English, Spanish, French and Romanian. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian, German, Hungarian and Latin. She is often quoted by publications such as Bloomberg/BusinessWeek and the Hartford Business Journal on immigration law topics.

Dana serves as Murtha Cullina's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.

In addition, Dana handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs. Examples of humanitarian cases she assisted with include:

• Representing Muslim refugee and her three children at JFK airport during the promulgation of the Muslim Ban in January 2017.
• Representing Cuban nationals with habeas corpus release from ICE custody in 2018 and 2019.
• Representing 70 Afghan nationals in applying for Humanitarian Parole after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• Representing several immigrants from various countries in applying for asylum based on political, religious and ethnic persecution.
• Traveling to the Tijuana – San Diego border checkpoint to assist more than 2,000 Ukrainian refugees entering the US on humanitarian parole.
• Setting up the “Connecticut for Ukraine” Matching Program which matches Ukrainian refugees to Connecticut sponsors.
• As Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut, running diplomatic programs that assisted the reunification of families separated at the border (Roma populations), coordinating assistance for vulnerable Romanian citizens in Connecticut and assisting in the transfer of Ukrainian refugees from Romania to Connecticut.
• Advocating for pro-immigrant bills at the state and federal level and offering testimony in support of state bills protecting the rights of CT immigrants.

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