Maria T. Schneider, Esq.

Maria has been an attorney with Musillo Unkenholt since 2011. Maria’s practice includes both business-based and family-based immigration matters.

Maria volunteers and works on immigration-related causes, serving on the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Immigration Practice Group and teaching Employment-Based Immigration Law as an adjunct at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Maria was appointed to the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Board of Trustees and the Board’s Executive Committee.

Maria has given presentations on immigration law to many organizations, including: the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Cincinnati Bar Association, NAFSA (the Association of International Educators), the American Alliance of Paralegals, the Greater Cincinnati Human Resources Association, the University of Cincinnati College of Business, and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

While attending law school, Maria served as President of the Immigrant Community Legal Advocacy Project, edited the Immigration Nationality Law Review, and worked in Washington, DC, advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Prior to joining MU, Maria was an International Services Advisor at the University of Cincinnati, where she advised students, scholars, and faculty coming from abroad to study and work at UC.

Maria graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2009 and is licensed in the State of Ohio.