Additional Practice Areas:
- EB-5 and Immigration Law
- Corporate and Commercial Law
- Real Estate Law
As founder and managing attorney of Nazario Yordan Law, PLLC, Marife Nazario focuses her practice in EB-5 and immigration law, while continuing to practice general business law and real estate law to a lesser degree. Marife’s practice is based in Florida, but she is licensed in numerous jurisdictions, including Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Puerto Rico. While she handles the universe of immigration matters, from asylums and complex waivers to temporary work visas to family and employment-based visas, her specialty is investment-based E-2 visas and representing Regional Centers and foreign investors in the area of EB-5 law—a program that allows foreign investors to invest capital in the U.S. in numerous industries and in exchange for the creation of jobs and the increase in economic activity, they become eligible for a green card. Marife’s multicultural background, multilingual skills, and nearly 20 years of legal experience spanning a wide array of practice areas, including business immigration law, corporate, commercial, and real estate law, have equipped her well to flourish in the hybrid area of EB-5 law and investment-based visas, where she serves her clients with a unique—and powerful—combination of skills and experience.
Marife was born in Spain and grew up in Puerto Rico. With Spanish as her native language, she is also proficient in French, Portuguese and Italian, and fluent in English. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1993 from Duke University, her law degree and a Certificate in European Legal Studies from Tulane Law School in 1999 and her LL.M. degree in Corporate and Commercial Law with honors from the University of London in 2000. While pursuing her J.D., she also served as managing editor and board member for the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, was ranked among the Who’s Who: American Law Students, and studied under Chief Justice Rehnquist in Sienna, Italy. Marife’s studies have also sent her to Spain, France and Italy, and she also clerked for a commercial law firm in Lyon, France.
Over the course of her career, Marife has served as attorney for international firms, including Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, where she led the business immigration practice, and in-house with Visa, Inc., where she served as Assistant Vice President and Legal Counsel of the Latin America and Caribbean Region. In 2014, she began her EB-5 training with a renowned EB-5 firm in Los Angeles and in 2018, she moved to Florida to lead the Orlando office as managing attorney for a Tampa immigration firm.
In 2019, her passion, experience, and skills culminated in a nomination for Top EB-5 Attorneys and the launch of her own firm. “Unlike most immigration attorneys, my practice is not based on volume. I pour my heart and soul into every case that I handle. In all my years, I have never had one denial in any of my own cases,” she shares. In 2020, she won the Lawyer Monthly Immigration Lawyer of the Year – USA award as well as the Elite Lawyer Award for Immigration and EB-5 Law, and was also featured in the Top 100 Lawyers Magazine for her work in those areas.
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