Nicole E. Mackmiller takes a holistic approach to her practice of law, by balancing experienced and zealous legal representation with planning for each client’s individual objectives and long-term legal needs. Nicole strives to ethically and zealously represent her clients, while educating them about the legal process, assessing their long-term needs, and planning to meet their individual legal objectives. With nearly 20 years of experience in immigration law, training as a domestic mediator, and certificates in Family Law and Probate and Estate Planning through the Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Nicole’s experience has helped her clients navigate a variety of immigration, family law, estate planning, and probate matters.
When it comes to immigration law, Nicole understands the challenges that our complex immigration system can present to those unfamiliar with it, and she enjoys assisting her clients navigate the murky and uncertain waters of immigration law, policy, and procedure. Fueled by knowledge, experience, and creativity in her legal arguments, she has successfully represented clients before the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and the U.S. Immigration Court (EOIR). Her clients have been granted various forms of immigration benefits including but not limited to immigrant visas, work authorization, asylum, cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, travel authorization, waivers of inadmissibility, and withholding of removal. Having represented clients from over 150 different countries, Nicole enjoys the cultural diversity that her immigration practice brings and strives to understand and meet each client’s individual immigration needs and objectives.
Sometimes, noncitizens find themselves facing legal situations that they did not anticipate before the criminal courts. When non-citizens are charged with crimes, the penalties are much higher than just potential jail time or fines, as it can have deportation or inadmissibility consequences. New immigration policies require mandatory detention by USICE for various criminal charges or convictions. In Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction published by ICLE, Nicole breaks down the immigration consequences that noncitizens could potentially encounter if charged with a crime, highlighting the importance of noncitizen criminal defendants consulting with an immigration attorney before entering any pleas.
Additionally, Nicole has represented numerous clients in family law and probate matters in the Circuit Courts of Washtenaw, Livingston, Oakland, and Wayne. When noncitizens are involved with divorce, custody, parenting time, support, or paternity cases, knowledge of immigration law and policies, combined with years of family law practice has helped Nicole achieve favorable results for her clients.
Before joining PSED Law, Nicole operated her own immigration law firm, after leaving Mackmiller Manchester PLLC in Ypsilanti, where she was solely responsible for handling the firm’s immigration and family law case load, while assisting with probate and estate planning matters. In 2016, Nicole completed Oakland Mediation Center’s Domestic Relations Mediation Training, and she is particularly well suited to mediate domestic matters where one or both parties are not US citizens. Nicole also served as the supervising attorney for the EMU Legal Resource Center for several years and taught the “American Immigration Process” and “Probate, Estates, and Wills” for EMU’s Paralegal Studies Program as an adjunct professor.
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