
Senior Attorney
Natalia Blauvelt
Natalia Blauvelt is a Senior Attorney at McEntee Law Group.
She has been living in Chicago since 2011, she moved to pursue a Master of Laws at Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 2018, Natalia received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. As an immigrant herself, she has experienced the U.S. immigration system herself and understands how challenging and at times stressful the immigration process can be.
Following graduation from Kent, she began practicing immigration law in Chicago, and she gained extensive experience working with family-based immigration, naturalization applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications, removal defense, provisional waivers, and J-1 waivers. She has experience representing clients before USCIS, EOIR, and ICE. Natalia also has experience handling O-1 and EB-1 matters.
When not engaged in her practice, Natalia enjoys yoga, drawing, and spending time with her husband and two children. Natalia is fluent in Russian and is a member of The American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Education
- Juris Doctor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT
- Dean’s List, CALI award for Family and Employment Immigration Class Cali Awards
- LLM in International and Comparative Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT
Mentorship, Incubators, Universities
Awards & Accolades
- Best Lawyers Award (2025)
- Super Lawyer’s Rising Star Award (2024)
National Speaker
Membership
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- AILA Chicago Media Committee
- AILA Citizenship Committee
- Chicago Bar Association
Licences
Advocacy & Pro Bono
- Volunteer Attorney with Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc., Cook County Court Chancery Division (2016)
- Successful representation of foreign nationals in relation to Afghan humanitarian parole applications through McEntee Law Group (AILA Pro Bono Champion, 2022) (2021-2023)
Media Commentator & Contributor
- Guest Lecturer, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, LLM (March 2023)
- Presenter, Illinois Paralegal Association (2023)
- Associated Press
- Daily Mail
- ABC10
- BBC Glasgow