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Dana R. Bucin Murtha Cullina LLP Partner

Partner

Hartford
Email: dbucin@murthalaw.com
Phone: 860-240-6081
Fax: 860-240-5867

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Bar & Court Admissions

  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • New York
  • District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Education

  • Boston University School of Law (J.D., 2005)
  • Université Jean Moulin Lyon Ill, Institut de Droit Comparé Lyon, France (Semester Abroad, Spring 2004)
  • Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2002)

Dana R. Bucin

Dana R. Bucin is a partner and is the chair of the Immigration Practice Group.

She represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters.

As an immigration attorney with a business/corporate legal background, Dana's experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card based on such investment or entrepreneurship pursuant to the E-2, L-1 “new office”, H-1B “entrepreneur” and EB-5 visa options. 

Dana regularly provides multilingual legal representation in English, Spanish, French and Romanian. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian, German, Hungarian and Latin. She is often quoted as an expert by publications such as Bloomberg/BusinessWeek and the Hartford Business Journal on immigration law topics.

Dana serves as Murtha Cullina's Diversity Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.

In addition, Dana handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs. Examples of humanitarian cases she assisted with include:

  • Representing Muslim refugee and her three children at JFK airport during the promulgation of the Muslim Ban in January 2017
  • Representing Cuban nationals with habeas corpus release from ICE custody in 2018 and 2019
  • Representing 70 Afghan nationals with applying for Humanitarian Parole after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
  • Representing several immigrants from various countries with applying for asylum based on political, religious and ethnic persecution
  • Traveling to the Tijuana – San Diego border checkpoint to assist 2,000+ Ukrainian refugees enter the US on humanitarian parole
  • Setting up the “Connecticut for Ukraine” Matching Program which matches Ukrainian refugees to CT sponsors
  • Honorary Consul of Romania to CT, running diplomatic programs that assisted the reunification of families separated at the border (Roma populations) and coordinates assistance for vulnerable Romanian citizens in CT, as well as assists the transfer of Ukrainian refugees from Romania to CT
  • Advocating for pro-immigrant bills at the state and federal level and offering testimony in support of state bills protecting the rights of CT immigrants

In 2020, Dana was listed in Connecticut Magazine’s “40 Under 40” edition. In 2019, she was named the “Attorney of the Year” by the Connecticut Law Tribune. In 2018, she was appointed to serve as the Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut. In 2016, the Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition recognized Dana as an Annual Immigrant Day Honoree and SuperLawyers listed her as a top rated attorney for Immigration Law. She has an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell. Dana has also previously received the “40 under 40” award from the Hartford Business Journal, and the “New Leaders in the Law” and the “Women in the Law High Achievers” award from the Connecticut Law Tribune.

Dana received her J.D. from Boston University and her B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.

  • MetroHartford Alliance, Global Business Council Executive Committee
  • Central and Eastern European Network (CEENET), Founding Member
  • World Affairs Council of CT, Chair of the Young Professionals Committee
  • Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition, Board of Directors
  • CrossRoads Venture Group, Board of Directors, Hartford Chapter
  • Connecticut Bar Association, Chair of YLS Section of International Law
  • Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association, Board of Directors (2007-2009)
  • Hartford Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs (HYPE), Entrepreneurs Task Force
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • 40 Under 40, Connecticut Magazine, 2020
  • United Action Connecticut Honoree, 2019
  • Attorney of the Year, Connecticut Law Tribune Professional Excellence Awards, 2019
  • Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut, 2018
  • Annual Immigrant Day Honoree, CT Immigrant and Refugee Coalition, 2016
  • Holds  AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
  • Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® in the areas of Immigration Law in 2013 and 2016 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
  • Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyers® "Rising Star" in the areas of Immigration Law in 2011 and 2012 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
  • New Leaders in the Law, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2012
  • Women in the Law High Achievers, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2010
  • 40 Under Forty, Hartford Business Journal, 2009
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Romanian
Overview

Dana R. Bucin is a partner and is the chair of the Immigration Practice Group.

She represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters.

As an immigration attorney with a business/corporate legal background, Dana's experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card based on such investment or entrepreneurship pursuant to the E-2, L-1 “new office”, H-1B “entrepreneur” and EB-5 visa options. 

Dana regularly provides multilingual legal representation in English, Spanish, French and Romanian. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian, German, Hungarian and Latin. She is often quoted as an expert by publications such as Bloomberg/BusinessWeek and the Hartford Business Journal on immigration law topics.

Dana serves as Murtha Cullina's Diversity Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.

In addition, Dana handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs. Examples of humanitarian cases she assisted with include:

  • Representing Muslim refugee and her three children at JFK airport during the promulgation of the Muslim Ban in January 2017
  • Representing Cuban nationals with habeas corpus release from ICE custody in 2018 and 2019
  • Representing 70 Afghan nationals with applying for Humanitarian Parole after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
  • Representing several immigrants from various countries with applying for asylum based on political, religious and ethnic persecution
  • Traveling to the Tijuana – San Diego border checkpoint to assist 2,000+ Ukrainian refugees enter the US on humanitarian parole
  • Setting up the “Connecticut for Ukraine” Matching Program which matches Ukrainian refugees to CT sponsors
  • Honorary Consul of Romania to CT, running diplomatic programs that assisted the reunification of families separated at the border (Roma populations) and coordinates assistance for vulnerable Romanian citizens in CT, as well as assists the transfer of Ukrainian refugees from Romania to CT
  • Advocating for pro-immigrant bills at the state and federal level and offering testimony in support of state bills protecting the rights of CT immigrants

In 2020, Dana was listed in Connecticut Magazine’s “40 Under 40” edition. In 2019, she was named the “Attorney of the Year” by the Connecticut Law Tribune. In 2018, she was appointed to serve as the Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut. In 2016, the Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition recognized Dana as an Annual Immigrant Day Honoree and SuperLawyers listed her as a top rated attorney for Immigration Law. She has an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell. Dana has also previously received the “40 under 40” award from the Hartford Business Journal, and the “New Leaders in the Law” and the “Women in the Law High Achievers” award from the Connecticut Law Tribune.

Dana received her J.D. from Boston University and her B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Practices & Industries
Memberships
  • MetroHartford Alliance, Global Business Council Executive Committee
  • Central and Eastern European Network (CEENET), Founding Member
  • World Affairs Council of CT, Chair of the Young Professionals Committee
  • Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition, Board of Directors
  • CrossRoads Venture Group, Board of Directors, Hartford Chapter
  • Connecticut Bar Association, Chair of YLS Section of International Law
  • Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association, Board of Directors (2007-2009)
  • Hartford Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs (HYPE), Entrepreneurs Task Force
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association
Recognition
  • 40 Under 40, Connecticut Magazine, 2020
  • United Action Connecticut Honoree, 2019
  • Attorney of the Year, Connecticut Law Tribune Professional Excellence Awards, 2019
  • Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut, 2018
  • Annual Immigrant Day Honoree, CT Immigrant and Refugee Coalition, 2016
  • Holds  AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
  • Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® in the areas of Immigration Law in 2013 and 2016 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
  • Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyers® "Rising Star" in the areas of Immigration Law in 2011 and 2012 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
  • New Leaders in the Law, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2012
  • Women in the Law High Achievers, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2010
  • 40 Under Forty, Hartford Business Journal, 2009
Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Romanian
Press Releases
Seminars & Events
Newsletters & Alerts
Articles
Speaking Engagements
Digital Media
Bar & Court Admissions
  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • New York
  • District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Education
  • Boston University School of Law (J.D., 2005)
  • Université Jean Moulin Lyon Ill, Institut de Droit Comparé Lyon, France (Semester Abroad, Spring 2004)
  • Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2002)
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