Email: helen@TarokicLaw.com 

Helen Tarokic counsels both individuals and businesses in all aspects of immigration law, including citizenship, employment-based immigration, and removal defense. She advises clients nationwide and abroad.

Helen obtained her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2006, with awards for mentoring and promoting the concerns of women in the legal profession. Prior to law school, she was a business and corporate immigration paralegal in Chicago, IL (2000-2003). She graduated summa cum laude from Lake Forest College near Chicago, Illinois, in 2000 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in International Relations.

Helen is Board Certified by the North Carolina State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and is one of the very few NC Board Certified Immigration Law Specialists in the State of North Carolina. Helen is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Since immigration falls under federal law, Helen is able to represent individual and business clients throughout the U.S. and abroad in their U.S. immigration matters. She is admitted to practice in the NC Courts as well as the Federal District Court for the Middle District of NC.

Ms. Tarokic served as the AILA Carolinas Chapter ICE Liaison from 2007 until 2011. She has been a featured speaker at both the AILA Paralegal Conference in Washington, D.C. and the AILA National Annual Conferences in Vancouver, Canada, and National Harbor, Maryland. She has also co-authored articles for seminar publications and presented on topics nationally such as I-140a ability to pay issues for employment-based petitions, and life and death consequences in removal proceedings (case and client management during the lengthy delay in deportation defense cases).

Helen has been an immigration attorney since 2006, counseling clients in both English and Spanish. As a first-generation American, she also speaks Croatian.