It is an unusual perspective about how to achieve success in a very complex, ever-changing area of the law.

It is the ability to see a path clearly through the competing interests addressed by the Immigration Service and the dynamic needs of global businesses.

It is the skill to navigate successfully through the law rather than around the law.

More than right-brain thinking in a left-brained immigration world, it is lateral thinking about a broad array of interconnected options.

At its source! Mary Corbett Stevenson understands firsthand the exercise of discretion in an administrative agency enforcement setting through four years of employment with the Customs Service in Chicago and five years of employment with the Immigration Service in Milwaukee.

There is no better way to learn the intricacies of the admission process than by performing law enforcement activities as a Customs Inspector at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and as an Immigration Inspector on the Great Lakes docks in Wisconsin.

Functioning as an Examiner (today's parlance "District Adjudication's Officer") before the rise of the Immigration Service Centers, Mary Corbett Stevenson made the decision to grant or to deny every type of immigration and citizenship benefit.  She decided hundreds of employment-based petitions, family-based petitions, student applications, waiver applications, asylum claims, and citizenship petitions each year.

During her employment with the INS, Mary served twice as a temporary appellate hearing officer and was tapped to assist in the revision of the INS Examiner's Handbook .  These experiences taught her about policy-making within the Immigration Service.

She uses it for The Stevenson Group customers each and every day in all individual immigration situations she encounters and with every immigration question she answers;

She uses it for The Stevenson Group paralegals in all of their weekly training sessions and by mentoring her colleagues in the immigration field;

She uses it for all INS meetings and filings to strengthen communications, to build liaison, and to further agency respect for The Stevenson Group; and

She uses it for maintaining a 99.9% approval rate on any immigration transaction that she has undertaken in the last thirteen years.  This extraordinary track record includes labor certifications in some 20 states.

They know because Mary analyzes and presents the employer-petitioner's argument as adeptly as she analyzes and presents the Government's argument because of her mastery of immigration law and policy.

They know because Mary gives her customers knowledge in a way they understand.

They know because Mary succeeds 99.9% of the time.

To empower the customer by infusing compassion, integrity, and understanding into a very disenfranchising process that tends to strip away any control over the life-changing process of emigration.