Ms. Mazur was appointed to the post of Honorary Consul of Ukraine to Philadelphia on July 23, 2019. Her consular district is Pennsylvania. Ms. Mazur practiced law in Ukraine where she held various positions including working at the Antimonopoly Committee of the Lviv Region. A native of Lviv, Ukraine, she moved to the United States 20 years ago and received an LLM degree in 2009 from Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Ms. Mazur is a partner at the Mazur Law Firm, PC, with a primary focus on immigration law. The firm is located in Huntingdon Valley.  She was also appointed and previously served as an advisor to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations and the Foreign Relations Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament. Ms. Mazur has extensive experience in all aspects of immigration law with substantial involvement in hundreds of cases related to the US/Ukraine consular processing; business and investment immigration; family immigration and protection from domestic violence in immigration law; international adoption; asylum requests from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia, before both the asylum office and the immigration court; general experience in area of domestic relations issues, including protection from abuse matters, divorce and custody; property law; trusts and estates, including cases involving multi-jurisdictional issues between the United States and Ukraine; specific issues relating to family, real estate, criminal, commercial, constitutional and other laws in Ukraine, Russia, and other countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. 

Mr. Petyk, a child of World War II refuges, was born and raised in Philadelphia where he graduated from Central High School (227) and earned his B.A. degree in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986, he earned a JD from Northeastern University Law School in Boston. Following 8 years in private practice, Mr. Petyk joined the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania where for 27 years he served as Associate General Counsel and was UPenn’s transactional attorney responsible for major commercial contracts, particularly in regard to real estate, construction and energy matters. Mr. Petyk is a founding member of the Higher Education Real Estate Lawyers organization (HEREL). From 2003 through 2017, he chaired the HEREL Steering Committee and served as convener for HEREL’s annual conferences, including the organization’s inaugural conference at UPenn in 2003, and then again in 2014 and 2017. Mr. Petyk is heavily engaged with the region’s Ukrainian-American community. Since 2014 he has been Board Chair at Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union (“UKRFCU”) a 12,000 member, $415,000,000 institution with 5 branches in the region. He also chairs the Ukrainian Community Foundation of Philadelphia (UCFP) – a charity established and largely funded by the Credit Union. UKRFCU and UCFP share a dual vision of enabling its members to achieve financial security while also supporting the institutions that promote the social cohesion of the local Ukrainian-American Community. Mr. Petyk actively promotes his community’s political engagement through political fundraising and direct advocacy in Washington, DC and locally.

Mr. Murphy has been involved with Immigration matters since 1993. He is a member of AILA and the Chester County, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. He was an adjunct professor at The Beasley School of Law, Temple University. He is a frequent lecturer on immigration matters. Ted has been on the faculty at the National AILA Conference, several state-wide CLE presentations as a faculty member for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and many CLE presentations with the Philadelphia AILA Chapter. He conducts multiple CLE presentations regularly in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Ted is an active member and Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Immigration Committee and Chair of the Chester County Bar Association Immigration Section. Mr. Murphy began his legal career as a solo attorney, winning a number of notable matters before joining the former INS as a trial attorney at the detention facility in York, Pennsylvania. He served with the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security from May 1997 until October 2007. During this time, he worked as an assistant Chief Counsel, advisor to the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Philadelphia, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at U.S. Attorney Office in Philadelphia, and as a member of the ICE National Security Law Division in Washington, D.C. Mr. Murphy is a former paratrooper who served in the 82nd Airborne Division.