McCrummen & McCullick Immigration Law Group, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Immigration law is the firm's single focus, and that shapes how the work is organized. The office sits in North Kansas City, Missouri, and it takes on both employment-based and family-based cases. That combination matters, because the two tracks run on different rules and different timelines even though they answer to the same federal agencies.

Employment-based work and family-based work draw on different parts of the immigration system. The first ties to a job offer or a company's need for particular skills. The second ties to a relationship, whether a marriage, a parent, or a child. Keeping both means the firm's attorneys work across statutes that reward precise filings and across cases where the human facts carry the most weight.

The named practice areas include employment and family-based visas, asylum, naturalization, and federal appeals. The firm also handles immigration relief for people who have survived domestic violence or violent crime. In my opinion, that mix reads as a firm that keeps company-sponsored cases and individual citizenship cases under one roof.

Who the firm represents

The firm describes a client base with real spread. On one side it works with large multinational employers, both public and private, that need visas for their staff. On the other it works with individuals who are fleeing persecution or domestic abuse. A practice that keeps both groups is carrying two fairly separate kinds of work at once.

Employer-side immigration usually starts with a petition, and many categories add a labor certification step before a visa is granted. Family-based cases begin when a citizen or resident files a petition for a relative, and then the case waits on visa availability, which can turn on the category and the country involved. Timelines in family cases can stretch across years for some categories, and a firm's role is to keep the file correct and current while it waits. These outlines describe how such matters generally move; they are background on the practice areas the firm names.

For a client, one practical effect of this range is continuity. A person who arrives on an employment or family visa may later apply for naturalization, and a firm that covers both can carry the same file forward. The site frames the practice as full-service immigration work, and the listed areas back that up.

How the team is built

The attorneys page names seven lawyers. Roger K. McCrummen, BJ McCullick, Thea B. Prochaska, Dayton Yarrow Murray, Samantha Natera, and Rebecca Tolman make up the core group. Roberta Farrell is listed as Of Counsel, a title that usually signals an ongoing but more limited tie to the firm.

Seven named lawyers plus an Of Counsel attorney puts this in the range of a mid-sized boutique for its field. A group that size can spread employment, family, humanitarian, and appellate matters among people who concentrate on them, while staying small enough that a client tends to deal with a consistent set of names.

Every attorney at the firm belongs to the American Immigration Lawyers Association. That association sets professional standards for immigration lawyers and runs continuing education in a field where the rules shift often. It is the shared credential the site states for all of them. The site does not state a founding year.

Advocacy and the clients behind it

Two of the firm's practice areas center on people in crisis: those seeking asylum and those recovering from domestic violence or violent crime. The firm says its attorneys also take part in advocacy for immigrants' rights, work that runs alongside their casework. As a reviewer, I read that pairing as consistent, since a practice built around vulnerable clients has a plain reason to speak up on their behalf.

How the humanitarian cases tend to work

Asylum claims generally go before a USCIS asylum office or an immigration judge, and a one-year filing deadline applies to many applicants. Relief for survivors of abuse or violent crime rests on protections Congress created for that purpose, and these cases often turn on documentation and on cooperation with authorities. Federal appeals in immigration cases can move to the Board of Immigration Appeals and then into the federal circuit courts. This is the general shape of the work the firm lists, and it is context for the practice areas named on its site.

Where naturalization fits

Naturalization runs through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The process includes an application, a background check, an interview, and a civics and English test before an oath of citizenship. It is often the final step for clients who first came through the family and employment tracks the firm also handles.

Scope a client can rely on

The firm makes its essentials clear for a first contact. It works out of North Kansas City, Missouri. Its practice areas cover employment, family, humanitarian, and appellate immigration. It names its attorneys, and each belongs to the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

The scope is the clearest signal a client can act on. One office takes employer visa work, family petitions, asylum and crime-victim relief, naturalization, and federal appeals. For an immigration matter in the Kansas City area, those areas and that shared membership are where a client starts.

Attorney backgrounds in the record

The individual profiles add useful detail about the experience within the office. Roger K. McCrummen attended New York University School of Law, and his stated practice focus includes business immigration. His profile also identifies English and German as languages he speaks. That is the only attorney language information supplied in the record.

BJ McCullick earned her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2013. Her profile divides her immigration work between business and consumer matters. That description gives prospective clients a clearer view of the files associated with her practice, particularly when they are deciding whom at the firm to contact.

Thea B. Prochaska attended Boston University School of Law after studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. Samantha Natera's profile identifies both family law and immigration law as her areas of work. Her family law background is a relevant distinction for cases in which a family relationship forms the basis of an immigration filing.

Roberta Farrell earned a bachelor's degree from Skidmore College in 1976 and a law degree from the University of Kansas in 1981. Those dates provide the clearest educational timeline among the attorney profiles in the record. Her stated area of practice is immigration law.

Office location and contact details

The street address is 2005 Swift Avenue, with the office located in the 64116 ZIP code. The published schedule is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday through Friday. For this reviewer, those stated hours are a practical detail because clients dealing with filing deadlines or document requests can see the regular weekday window for reaching the office.

The record provides two telephone numbers: 816.221.5444 and 816.474.6822. The first is specifically identified as the number for contacting the firm. Together with the full street address and weekday hours, it gives prospective clients concrete information for making an initial inquiry or delivering materials to the office.