About Mark J
Mark J Curley earned his undergraduate degree in Organizational Communication from Creighton University in 1990. He stayed at Creighton for law school and received his Juris Doctor in 1993. Those years framed a steady interest in the laws that shape migration and citizenship. The educational path also set up a career tied to the practical, often administrative side of immigration work.
After law school Curley began practicing in the immigration field and built a portfolio of roles inside professional associations that track federal policy and adjudication patterns. He has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1999. Over the years he has taken on chapter leadership responsibilities, including serving as Iowa/Nebraska Chapter Chair from 2010 to 2011 and as the chapter’s Liaison for Unauthorized Practice of Law from 2013 to 2014. He also served on AILA’s National Benefits Center Liaison Committee in 2011–2012. Since 2018 he has held the role of Chair for the National Day of Action for the Iowa/Nebraska Chapter, a position he continues to hold.
Those association roles required frequent contact with administrative offices and other practitioners. They also involved organizing colleagues around discrete procedural concerns and public outreach days. The liaison work put him in a regular exchange with officers who handle benefits processing, and the unauthorized-practice role involved evaluating how non-lawyer actors interact with immigrant communities and the courts.
Curley is admitted to practice in Nebraska and South Dakota. He runs Curley Immigration Law PC LLO, where he represents clients and manages the firm’s immigration docket. The firm’s name signals the practice emphasis, and his long AILA membership reflects sustained engagement with developments in federal immigration policy and agency practice.
Colleagues and clients encounter him in court filings and administrative petitions, in chapter meetings and at outreach events. His work blends case files with professional advocacy on process-related problems, such as adjudication backlogs and technical pitfalls in benefit applications. He has maintained steady involvement in AILA for decades, moving from member to chapter chair to committee liaison, and into current chapter-level leadership on coordinated days of public action.
He continues to practice immigration law through Curley Immigration Law PC LLO. His current practice centers on immigration law matters.
