Isabel Cueva is an immigration attorney and the founder of the Law Office of Isabel Cueva, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She represents corporations and individuals across the United States and around the world, with a focus on EB-5 investor visas, family visas, waivers, deportation defense, and employment-based visas.
As an immigration lawyer, Attorney Cueva has helped a number of families reunite in the United States. She helps foreign investors and businesses who want to do business in the United States to understand the complexities of investor immigration laws and fulfill their documentation requirements. Cueva has represented clients who are facing deportation issues in court and has a high success rate in winning these types of cases. She assists professional and skilled workers in receiving visas to legally work temporarily or permanently in the country. She has also helped workers and professionals (nurses, engineers, artists, musicians, athletes, etc.) to find jobs and legally work in different states.
Prior to founding her own firm, Cueva was an attorney at the Orange County, California-based Higbee & Associates, where she was recruited to start an immigration division. She is a 1st-generation immigrant originally born in Guadalajara, Mexico. She migrated to the United States at eight years old, and is fluent in Hispanic culture and Spanish. This knowledge helps her to meet the unique cultural and linguistic needs of her clients.
Cueva graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with her bachelor’s degree in psychology. As an undergraduate, she received the Larry H. and Gail Miller Enrichment Scholarship. She then earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law. During law school, she served as a clerk in the Salt Lake City U.S. Executive Office for Immigration Review for Hon. William Nixon. After graduating, she practiced in British Columbia and Seattle, Wash. Cueva is actively admitted to the Washington State Bar and is a member of AILA. Her accolades include being named as a Top 40 Under 40 Attorney by the National Trial Lawyers, and receiving a 5 out of 5 Martindale-Hubbel rating.