Roger K. McCrummen

Roger K. McCrummen is the managing partner of the North Kansas City Office. Roger and the attorneys and staff at the North Kansas City office focus their practice on U.S. Immigration Law, including:

  • Employer compliance issues
  • Business visas
  • Employment based permanent residence ("green cards)
  • Family immigration
  • Removal defense
  • Outbound visa issues (international movement of personnel)
  • Humanitarian immigration issues, such as asylum, violence against women act

Roger began his legal career in 1982 in New York City, upon graduation with an advanced law degree (LL.M. - International Legal Studies) from the prestigious New York University School of Law in New York City. He practiced for a number of years as a Business Transactional Attorney with firms in New York City until he moved to Kansas City with his family in 1992.

Since coming to Kansas City, Mr. McCrummen's practice has focused on Federal Immigration Law and representing businesses and individuals in their Immigration needs. He has served three times as the Chair of the Missouri/Kansas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), including service on the national Board of Governors of AILA, which is the nation's premier immigration bar association.

Mr. McCrummen and his associate attorneys are also all active in advocacy on behalf of immigrants and their employers. He is nationally recognized as a mentor for other Immigration lawyers and has chaired and spoken at immigration law conferences nationwide. He and his group represent several large corporate employers in the Kansas City area as well as throughout the United States, but also place strong emphasis on representing individuals, families, and all legal issues facing immigrants and their employers.

Mr. McCrummen also received a Master of Divinity Degree in 1989 from Princeton Theological Seminary and worked for two years as a Director of a not for profit homeless ministry in the Times Square area of New York City.


Practice Areas

Representative Engagements

  • Temporary work visas for professionals (H-1B), intracompany transferees (L-1, including blanket L petitions), NAFTA professionals from Mexico and Canada (TN), treaty-based traders and investors (E1/2), business visitors (B-1), extraordinary ability aliens (O-1), religious workers (R-1), student visas and work authorization (F-1), exchange students (J-1), etc.
  • Employer I-9 compliance and federal E-verify system
  • Applications for Employment Based Permanent Residence (Green cards), including applications with the Department of Labor for Alien Labor Certification (PERM), "special handling" for university teachers, "national interest waivers," "outstanding researchers and professors," "extraordinary ability aliens," religious workers, etc.
  • Consular processing issues for workers traveling and obtaining visas abroad
  • Advice to universities and government entities regarding immigrant employees, SEVIS compliance, employment authorization documents, etc.
  • Outbound visa issues for domestic personnel traveling and working abroad
  • Administrative Appeals with the Board of Alien Labor Certification (BALCA), Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), and similar bodies.
  • Family petitions on behalf of relatives, affidavits of support, work cards, travel documents, consular processing issues, driver's licenses, etc.
  • Diversity (Green Card) lottery
  • Applications on behalf of asylees, refugees, humanitarian parole, etc.

Education

  • B.A. in History, Minor in German. Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas, 1976. Magna Cum Laude.
  • JD, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock Texas, 1979.
  • LL.M. (International Legal Studies), New York University School of Law, New York, NY 1982.
  • Masters of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary (Summa Cum Laude, ranked 1st in class) 1989.

Admissions/Court Memberships

  • States of Texas, New York and Missouri

Honors

  • AV Rating (highest rating) from Martindale Hubble legal directory for ethics and legal competence.
  • Three time elected Chair of the Missouri/Kansas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (approximately 150 attorney members)
  • Best of the Bar in Immigration Law - Kansas City Business Journal, 2011
  • Named by Ingram’s Business Magazine to “Best Lawyers in Kansas City, Immigration Law, for 2012”

Professional Affiliations

  • Missouri Bar Associations
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  • Christian Legal Society
  • American Civil Liberties Union

Publications and Seminars

  • Speaker, Downtown Rotary Club of Kansas City on “Immigration Reform: Policy and Politics”, Kansas City, MO 2012.
  • Roger McCrummen's Blog
  • Conference Chair and Speaker: American Immigration Lawyers Basics Conference, Boston, MA, 2007
  • Speaker: American Immigration Lawyers Basic Conference on Immigration Law, Atlanta, GA, 2006
  • Frequent speaker at several other local and nationwide Immigration law in person conferences and teleconferences.
  • Frequent speaker on behalf of immigration law and issues as churches and universities

Community Involvement