
Mary Cecilia Sweeney
Attorney
Sector: US Immigration
Location: London
MC is an attorney with the US team in London. Her practice areas include advising and preparing all categories of non-immigrant and immigrant cases, with particular emphasis on L-1 intra-company transfers and Blanket petitions, E-1 and E-2 treaty investors, O-1 persons with extraordinary ability, waivers of inadmissibility, EB-1 and family-based green cards. MC also advises on US citizenship matters including renunciation. Before joining LDI, she specialized in US litigation as a partner with boutique law firm Kaplan Landau LLP in New York.
History
2021-present – Laura Devine Immigration, London
2008-2017 – Kaplan & Landau LLP, New York
2006-2008 – Sullivan & Worcester LLP, New York
2003-2006 – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York
Education
2004 – Admitted to the U.S. Federal Courts of the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
2004 – Admitted to State Bar of New York
1999-2003 – Juris Doctorate, Fordham University School of Law, New York
Latest Insights
1 July 2025
Home Office publishes Statements of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 997 (1 July 2025) and HC 836 (24 June 2025)
The Home Office has today published a new Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (HC 997) in connection with details outlined in the Government’s…
27 June 2025
Migration Advisory Committee advises against further increases to minimum income requirement under the family route
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26 June 2025
Zeena Luchowa quoted in the Law Society Gazette
Zeena Luchowa (Partner) has been quoted by the Law Society Gazette in an article entitled ‘In depth: foreign lawyers in immigration limbo’.