Kristen Dant

Kristen Dant

Senior Paralegal

Kristen has been with Hussain, Bendersky & Liston since 2006, starting in an Administrative role and gaining increasing responsibility and knowledge in immigration law, eventually placing her in her current position as Senior Paralegal. Kristen’s main focus is nonimmigrant visa petitions, specializing in client relationships with managerial-level employees from the initial Consular interview and entry into the United States to U.S. Citizenship. She has ample experience in H-1B, H-1B1, L-1A, L-1B, E-3, TN, and J-1 nonimmigrant petitions in addition to EB1C and marriage-based immigrant petitions, applications for Lawful Permanent Residence, and ancillary applications for Employment Authorization, Travel Documents, renewal of green cards, Removal of Conditions, and Naturalization. Kristen has also gained experience in Asylum and Family-based immigration while participating in DePaul’s Immigration & Asylum Legal Clinic.

Kristen is a second-year law student at DePaul University College of Law, graduating in May 2027. She is in the top 15% of her class, ranked 3 of 20, and was awarded a CALI Excellence for the Future Award ® for top grade in LARC II, a Legal Research and Writing course, in addition to a Dean’s Certificate of Service Award for over fifty hours of volunteer service in her 1L year. Kristen is a Staffer for Volume 74 of the DePaul Law Review and serves as Treasurer for the Part-Time Law Student Organization.

Beyond the legal field, Kristen has an undergraduate background in the Fine Arts and volunteers her extra time in the community. She has served as a Bedside Volunteer at Lurie Children’s Hospital since April 2012, is the treasurer of her children’s Cub Scouts Pack, and was a Board Member for her neighborhood’s AYSO Youth Soccer League from 2019 to 2024.