The Kansas City Business Journal named Mira Mdivani BEST OF THE BAR - IMMIGRATION LAW and BUSINESS IMMIGRATION LAW in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004. Mira received the Legal Leaders award from the Kansas City Daily Record, and was named the Best Immigration Lawyer by the Pitch. Her pro bono work on behalf of immigrant survivors of domestic violence was recognized by The Kansas Bar Association's & American Immigration Lawyers Association PRO BONO Certificate of Appreciation Awards. The Mdivani Law Firm received the FIRM OF THE YEAR award from the Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City.

Mira’s areas of expertise include: Business Immigration, specifically, employer immigration compliance, management and HR training on immigration issues, I-9 and contractor certification audits, E-Verify, L-1 visas for executives and managers, H-1B visas for professionals, H-2Bs for essential workers, employment-based permanent residency, and immigration related issues raised in the context of corporate changes; and Family Immigration, Mira also advises families with immigrant members on permanent residency and naturalization.

Mira frequently writes and presents on immigration law. She has presented on business immigration law issues by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association for Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Missouri Bar Association, Kansas Bar Associations, SHRM, and Kansas Women Attorneys Association. She has provided expert testimony in the field of immigration law to members of Kansas Senate and House of Representatives. She has written for the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association and ilw.com.

Mira serves on the Board of Directors of The Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, where she chairs the Community Support Committee and the Executive Commitee for Earl O'Connor American Inn of Court. She served as chair of the Pro Bono Service Committee of the Missouri Kansas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is a member of the Missouri and Kansas Bars, and KCMBA's Employment and Labor and International Law Committees.

Mira’s law degree was awarded by the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law. In law school, she received the American Jurisprudence Awards for the highest academic achievements in Philosophy and the Law and Gender Jurisprudence. She was the recipient of Mark E. Grady and Frederick W. Hess Memorial Scholarship for academic excellence. Her undergraduate degree was awarded by Moscow State Moris Thores Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied French, Russian, Latin, and English.


Mira lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, two children, and her father.