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Elizabeth's practice focuses exclusively on immigration law, with an emphasis on business and family-based immigration. She represents employers and individuals in securing temporary work visas and permanent resident status based on employment. She also represents US citizens and lawful permanent residents wishing to sponsor family members for legal immigration status, and assists permanent residents in obtaining US citizenship.

ELISA FORD is a solo practitioner in Seattle, Washington, whose practice focuses exclusively on humanitarian and family-based immigration law. Elisa is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Washington State Bar Association, and Maryland State Bar Association.. Elisa received her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 2004. After law school she served as a Clerk to the Honorable Robin Hunt of the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II. Elisa has a diverse background in public interest law and complex statutory and regulatory analysis. She served as a Policy Analyst for the Maryland State Legislature and as an Associate in a small Plaintiff’s law firm in Baltimore, MD, focused on providing relief to inner city children poisoned by lead paint.. Dedicated to promoting access to legal services, Elisa has provided pro bono legal services as a volunteer with the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project (CARA), the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), One America’s Citizenship days, and as a mentor through the Jewish Family Service’s Tatweer program for refugees . In May of 2015, Elisa traveled to Dilley, Texas, where she spent a week volunteering with CARA to provide pro bono legal assistance to women and children refugees detained in prison-like conditions at the South Texas Residential Detention Center.. Elisa also holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Economics Combined from the University of California, Santa Cruz.. When not working, Elisa enjoys exploring the trails and waterways of the Northwest with her husband and twin 9-year old boys.

Eliana Horn is an attorney, community organizer, researcher and advocate in the Seattle area. With a tenant organizing background, Eliana believes land and housing is a resource to be shared, not held for future profit. Eliana is working toward shifting the dynamics of ownership and control of land and housing to center low-income and Black, Indigenous and People of Color to ensure that land is affordable and accessible for hundreds of years to come.. Through Interdependent Law, Eliana provides legal services to forming or converting worker cooperatives, land-sharing projects including community land trusts, community real estate investment funds, and housing cooperatives. Eliana also provides representation on immigration cases including family-based petitions, adjustment of status, and special immigrant juvenile visas.. After graduating from City University of New York School of Law, Eliana worked as an immigration attorney between 2018 and 2021, representing detained and non-detained clients in removal proceedings, filing affirmative immigration applications, and suing the Government for the release of immigrants from detention. Eliana opened Interdependent Law in 2021.

Dustin O'Quinn counsels individuals, families, and corporations on a full range of immigration issues, including I-9 compliance and audits. Mr. O'Quinn also has significant experience in Outer Continental Shelf issues, Permanent Labor Certification Applications, H-1B, H-2B, and L-1 visas, as well as uncommon visas, including investor visas and extraordinary-ability visas.. Mr. O'Quinn is fluent in both English and Spanish, thus allowing him to serve a wide array of clients.  He has experience with DACA, Citizenship, Birth certificates, green cards, and deportation matters.. Mr. O'Quinn previously managed the Immigration Practice at an interntional full-service law firm, and honed his legal skills as an Immigration Attorney at two leading internatonal Immigration law firms.

Dr. Franca Baroni, Esq. has been practicing humanitiarian immigration law since 2001. She holds a doctorate (Ph.D. equivalent) in public international law and Master of Laws and is admitted to practice in New York, Washington State and Switzerland. She is a contributor in the 2017 American Bar Association publication “Lawyers as Changemakers”s and an award-winning author, speaker, trainer, actress & coach.. Dr. Baroni regularly offers Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs and presentations to legal professionals about coherent lawyering, resilience, optimal performance, mindfulness, trauma awareness and mental & emotional health.. Services offered to immigrants:. Family-based immigration, VAWA, naturalizations, waivers, asylum, removal defense (limited scope representantion only).. Services offered to immigration lawyers:. Coverage of USCIS interviews, Master Calendar Hearings and Individual Calendar Hearings (selected)cases), mental health/resilience/overall wellbeing presentations.

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Carol L. Edward is the founder of and Of Counsel to the Law Offices of Carol L. Edward & Associates, P.S. She has provided legal services in U.S. immigration and citizenship-related matters since 1984. She is herself the daughter of immigrants and holds dual citizenship with the United States and Canada. Attorney Edward has engaged in a wide variety of immigration cases ranging from business-related matters to family, asylum, and deportation and removal.. She received her J.D. cum laude from Seattle University and her bachelor’s degree in Business from University of California, Davis. Ms. Edward has a number of published cases within the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has the highest possible ratings with peer and professional organizations, including , bestlawyers.com, , and . Ms. Edward previously served as the Chair of the Washington State Chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), teaches and participates in continuing legal educational programs on various immigration topics, and is actively involved in non-profit organizations supporting immigrants rights, including the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Hate Free Zone, ACLU, and National Immigration Project.

Cameron is the Legal Director of the West African Community Council (WACC) where she offers free or low-cost legal representation in immigration matters, including family-based petitions and removal defense.. Cameron is originally from Canton, Connecticut. After graduating from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach political science to English speakers at the Russian Armenian University in Yerevan, Armenia. Upon the completion of her fellowship, she worked for two years assisting children detained by immigration authorities in South Texas.. Cameron graduated from the University of California, Irvine School of Law in May 2019. In law school, she developed a passion for working at the intersection of criminal, immigration, and civil rights law through her work with the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School, the Immigrant Rights Clinic at UCI, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Her strong work ethic and diligence allowed her to excel at UCI Law where she was elected to serve on the Executive Board of the UC Irvine Law Review and received numerous awards for receiving the highest and second-highest grades in her courses.. In August of 2019, Cameron began a two-year clerkship for Chief Judge Bradley Maxa on the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II in Tacoma, Washington. In her clerkship with the Court of Appeals, she enjoyed working closely with Judge Maxa, gaining broad exposure to various areas of the law, and improving skills that are useful to her in performing her work as an advocate.. After concluding her two-year clerkship with Judge Maxa, Cameron joined Ahlers Cressman and Sleight PLLC in Seattle as an Associate Attorney where her practice focused on complex civil litigation and construction disputes between owners, contractors, and other industry stakeholders.

As an immigrant herself, Maria understands and empathizes with the challenges and struggles faced by immigrants, and she deeply appreciates the opportunities that were made possible for her by those who advocate for immigrants. It was that appreciation that led her to pursue a legal education, and it was her interactions with members of the immigrant community that solidified her interest to practice in the area of immigration law.. Maria was raised in Guatemala for the first eight years of her life. In 1994, she moved to the United States with her mother. Despite the constant rain, Maria fell in love with Washington and has lived here since.. Maria graduated from Seattle University School of Law and was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 2011. Through her involvement in student groups during her time as a law student, she was able to remain directly involved with the individuals she hoped to work with in the future. While a member of the Latino/a Law Students Association, she served as its President as well as its student liaison to the Latino/a Bar Association of Washington, and dedicated her spare time to mentoring youth and volunteering at legal clinics. As an active member of the Public Interest Law Foundation, Maria helped raised funds for summer grants for students working in the non-profit sector. The experiences enriched her legal education by exposing her to issues she would have never learned about from a casebook. She completed her Bachelor degree at the University of Washington in 2008, where she double majored in Philosophy and Latin American Studies.. Maria has made fighting for social justice the central hallmark of her professional career. Prior to joining JSO, she worked with El Centro de la Raza assisting immigrants to eliminate many of the barriers preventing them from fully participating in society. As a Rule 9 Intern with the Youth Advocacy Clinic at Seattle University, she represented juveniles charged with criminal offenses. She served as a law clerk at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, and she also interned at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle.. Maria’s favorite pastimes include hiking and traveling. She has been to Mexico, Italy, France, Spain, and Monaco, as well as to every country in Central America.

As a Seattle immigration lawyer for many years, I bring people together by using successful strategies to unite families and to help employers hire top foreign talent. I also help US citizens and would-be citizens with applications for naturalization or citizenship and passports.  I also work with military families.  I am a member of the Washington State Bar since 2003 (and the California State Bar since 1984, inactive since 2011). At the start of my career, I had the honor to serve as a legacy INS Trial Attorney. This government experience helps me see cases from two points of view. My firm offers affordable legal services, whether we handle a portion of your case or all of it.  I am a tireless advocate for clients because I am passionate about working hard for you so you can achieve your dreams.  I provide straightforward, honest and candid analysis of your case, even if nothing can be done or the road will be difficult. You will receive personal service and direct communications from your attorney. I really enjoy being a tireless advocate for fair and just immigration reform legislation, and am actively involved in government liaison, as well as state and federal legislative advocacy. As a former Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Washington Chapter for two years,  I had the honor and pleasure of managing and leading a terrific immigration specialty bar association. I have also served on the national AILA-USCIS International Operations Liaison Committee and the Military Assistance Project Task Force and the AILA national Business Committee. I am available to speak before your community, trade or professional group.. Services include:. -Work and investment visas and employment based greencards (We love to work on national interest waivers [NIW], cases involving persons with extraordinary ability, and with investors and entrepreneurs in particular - Eb-1, EB-2, Eb-5, E-2/E-2, E-3, L-1, O-1, etc..). -Family and marriage/fiance(e) based visas and greencards. -US citizenship and naturalization, including military matters such as Parole in Place, automatic and derived citzienship and passport issues. -Workplace compliance (I-9, E-Verify, H-1B, PERM audits). -Asylum and refugee matters. -Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) (would-be DREAM youth if we had a DREAM Act). -Consular and border matters. -Waivers, including I-601A provisional family unity waivers, J-1 waivers, and others. We work with a number of other specialists as needed in the area of criminal, tax, labor, international, IP law and more.. Our Seattle Washington Immigration Law Firm is conveniently located in the Queen Anne neighborhood near the Space Needle, and best of all, there is free parking.

Andrew ("Andy") Oliver is a native of the State of Washington and the managing attorney for our firm's Seattle Office. He earned his law degree from the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, DC. He has been practicing immigration law in Seattle since 2007. Andy sincerely cares about his clients. He has a deep appreciation for languages and cultures. In his undergraduate studies at the University of Washington, Andy studied linguistics, Asian languages, and literature. He has studied Spanish, Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Arabic. He loves to travel, and has spent time in India, Guatemala, and several countries in Europe. Andy lives with his wife, Alissa, and cats, Prem and Mouse, in Seattle.

Amy helps companies of all sizes bring in workers to the United States on a temporary and permanent basis. Amy assists clients with a broad range of immigration matters, and has successfully prepared nonimmigrant and immigrant visa applications for professionals, treaty traders and investors, multinational managers, researchers, entertainers and skilled workers. She has particular experience applying for temporary and permanent visas for artists, entertainers, and musicians.. Amy also assists individuals in sponsoring their family members to come to the United States. In addition, she has successfully represented clients in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.. Prior to her legal career, Amy worked in Washington, D.C. as a legislative aide to a U.S. Congressman and as the Development Director for a non-profit refugee advocacy organization.

Amsale Aberra is the founding attorney of Amsale Aberra Law, PLLC.  As an immigrant from Ethiopia herself, she is fully aware of the complexities of US immigration laws, and thus, makes every effort to provide exceptional and compassionate service to her clients nationwide. Amsale worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees, Johns Hopkins University and North West Immigrants’ Rights Project to assist clients in their asylum based application, family-based immigration petition, and waiver of inadmissibility.  Amsale holds a law degree from Haramaya University, a Master of Arts degree from the United Nations Mandated University in Costa Rica, and a Master of Laws degree from University of Washington in Seattle.  Amsale's specialization in international law, and the fact that she lived, studied, and traveled to over five continents help her understand the cultural and political dynamics of her clients' case, and to successfully represent them in a wide array of immigration laws.

After a decade as an attorney working for big law firms and corporations, I decided it was time for a new professional path. I wanted to use my skills, experience, and education for work I was truly passionate about. I left the corporate and big firm world to pursue my passion: immigration law. I love the work that I do and I strive to provide each and every client with competent and compassionate legal representation, as well as diligent and tenacious advocacy. I believe immigrant rights are human rights, and I am a passionate advocate of both, and I'm proud of the work that I engage in every day.. Call us: