About

Olga is a U.S. - licensed attorney (Washington State) specializing in business immigration law, particularly in the areas of workforce mobility and work permits incoming into the United States as well as immigration practice under NAFTA (USMCA). Olga graduated with an LLM in U.S. Law from the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University and an LLB (Common Law) from the University of London, England. In 2003-2004, Olga worked at a prominent think tank in Washington, D.C., where she focused on U.S. immigration policy research and U.S.-Russian bilateral relations. She is also the recipient of a number of prestigious international scholarships, including the U.S. Department of State’s Edmund E. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program (2001-2003); and has interned with The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Olga is fluent in English, Russian, and French.Specialties: Business immigration and international workforce mobility law, work permits under Trade NAFTA, E-1 / E-2 Treaty Traders/Treaty Investors, L-1A/B Multinational Managers and Specialists, U.S. Permanent Residence ("Green Card"), U.S. inadmissibility waivers (criminal). Nonimmigrant experience includes H-1B, L-1A and L-1B (Individual petitions and Blanket applications), E-3 (Australian professionals), H-1B1 (Chilean/Singaporean professionals), TN, J-1, I, O-1, E-1, E-2, P-1 and B-2 domestic partners, as well as applicable dependent categories. Immigrant experience includes PERM and I-140 (EB-11 extraordinary ability, and EB-13 multinational managers/executives, EB-2 and EB-3); I-485, employment authorization applications (I-765) and advance parole applications (I-131), I-130 filings and consular processing. Extensive experience with Reentry permits and naturalization applications, reports of Birth Abroad (Claim of U.S. citizenship through parent/grandparent), expedited naturalization and renunciation of U.S. citizenship for dual nationals. Experience includes responses to requests for evidence (RFE’s) and PERM audits, preparation of multi-entity Blanket Petitions.

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Immigration

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French English Russian

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