Hannah Croucher

Hannah Croucher has various expertise in international law and U.S. immigration
law, with a focused interest in the MENA region and Islamic countries. She has a
Bachelor’s Degree in Philanthropic Studies from the IU Lilly Family School of
Philanthropy and her first experience in international human rights was with OBAT
Helpers when she traveled with a small cohort to Bangladesh in May 2014.

From there, she attended law school and graduated from IU McKinney Law in 2019 with a Juris
Doctor (JD). During her time at McKinney, she received the Program in International
Human Rights Law Internship Scholarship providing her the opportunity to live in
Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco in 2017 where she worked with organizations in
researching and writing project proposals to the EU for women’s rights and
empowerment and combating underage child marriage, and provided support, research,
and writing for asylum appeals. In 2018, she was the only student to receive the Michael
and Nancie Freeborn Civil and Human Rights Fellowship where she moved to Chios,
Greece, and worked as a Legal Team Member with Advocates Abroad where she
demonstrated expert knowledge of EU law by supporting refugees on diverse legal
issues, focusing on interview preparations, providing information about asylum
procedures and EU law, and preparing refugees for asylum interviews.

In 2019, she became a Fulbright Specialist and moved to Doha, Qatar, where she worked with Qatar
University College of Law by helping facilitate the establishment, organization, and
maintenance of partnerships by engaging national, regional, and international
stakeholders in partnership and support of the Clinic, and spear-headed various
projects regarding the rights of the elderly, small- and medium-sized commercial
enterprises, and migration.

Hannah has worked in U.S. immigration law since 2017 with tremendous experience in
employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, such as asylum, individual and
family-based immigration, H-1B Amendments/Extensions/Transfers, H-4 and H-4 EAD,
PERM, EB-2, and EB-3 I-140 petitions, H-2B, P, and O. Currently, she is studying to
take the Indiana bar exam and work with a small conglomerate of tech and
healthcare companies in-house as their Immigration Specialist where she mainly
focuses on H-1B’s for Indian nationals.