Valerie Tarbutton

Valerie K. Tarbutton is an Associate in our North Kansas City office. She provides legal counsel in the following areas:

• naturalization applications
• marriage-based petitions
• fiancé visas
• family immigration
• consular processing
• complex waivers
• removal defense
• federal litigation
• humanitarian immigration issues, such as asylum, violence against women act, and U Visas.

Valerie is a 2011 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. During law school, Valerie distinguished herself as a semi-finalist in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition in Brooklyn, New York and was Co-President of the Hispanic Law Student Association at UMKC.

Valerie is highly proficient in Spanish. She has traveled to Costa Rica, Mexico, and Spain. While in law school, she worked as a law clerk on a variety of immigration cases including asylum, cancellation of removal, marriage based petitions, and fiancé visas.

Education

B.A., Psychology, University of Kansas, 2008
B.A., Spanish, University of Kansas, 2008
J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011

Professional Affiliations

Member, Missouri Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association