Hannah MacNorlin
Hannah has practiced immigration law since graduating from GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW in 2012. She began at CATHOLIC CHARITIES ATLANTA from 2012 until 2015, and then at the LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION from 2015 until 2018 when she and Sarah Owings opened Owings MacNorlin Immigration Law. Prior to attending law school, Hannah was a Bilingual Victim’s Advocate in the Fulton County Solicitor’s Office and a Victim’s Advocate in a domestic violence shelter with Partnership Against Domestic Violence. Hannah majored in Latin American Studies at EARLHAM COLLEGE and participated in the Border Studies Program in 2000, where she lived with a host family in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico and walked across the international bridge daily to attend classes at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO.
Hannah has served on the GEORGIA ALABAMA AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION Pro Bono Committee and Citizenship Day Committee. Hannah has presented on immigration law at trainings for the GEORGIA BAR ASSOCIATION, the Georgia Conference on Children and Families as well as to the Marshall County Alabama Department of Human Resources.
During the family separation crisis in 2018, Hannah organized a fundraiser to send immigration attorneys to the US-Mexico border to assist the organizations on the ground working with both the separated families as well as other asylum seekers. Hannah was able to spend a week in El Paso working with both ESTRELLA DEL PASO as well as the ANNUNCIATION HOUSE Immigrant Justice Project.
Hannah focuses her practice on family based and humanitarian immigration. She handles a wide variety of cases including adjustment of status, consular processing, naturalization and all waivers. Hannah particularly enjoys finding solutions to complex cases. Hannah also serves on the Board of a local immigrant serving non-profit CASA ALTERNA, as well as on the Board of the FRIENDS SCHOOL OF ATLANTA.
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Selected recent presentations:
- 2025 Know Your Rights presentations at several churches.
- March 2025 – GA State Bar Presentation at WCCL “Immigration Cross-Over Issues with Worker’s Compensation”
- March 2025 – GA/AL AILA Conference “Consular Proccesing Uncovered”
- February 2024 – GA/AL AILA Conference “Humanitarian Parole for family members of Us/Ts, TPS et al”