Bonnie Stern Wasser - Immigration Lawyers: Seattle WA

Seattle Immigration Attorney

* Acquisition of temporary and permanent visas, including consular matters, for:
- Extraordinary Artists, Athletes, Scientists, Businesspeople and Educators
- Outstanding Scholars and Researchers
- Professionals and Highly Skilled Individuals, Including those Whose Work is in the National Interest
- Treaty Investors and Traders
- Executives and Managers, Workers with Unique or Specialized Skills in Multinational Corporations
- Experienced Workers for Shortage Occupations
- Tourists and Business Visitors
- Students, Scholars and Exchange Program Participants, Trainees
- Diplomats and Foreign Government Staff
- Foreign Correspondents
- Religious Personnel
- "Special" Immigrants
- Fiances, Spouses, Parents, Children and Siblings of US Citizens and Permanent Residents
- International Adoptions
- Cultural exchange visitors
- Victims of domestic violence and human trafficking
- Diversity lottery
- Miscellaneous programs: TPS, Family Unity, etc.
- Waivers of inadmissibility, as necessary.

* Citizenship and naturalization including retention, loss, abandonment and military issues

* Asylum and refugee processing

* Development of compliance plans, internal audits regarding I-9, H-1B, H-2B, PERM, or E-3 programs, consulting services about immigration consequences of mergers & acquisitions for US businesses.

* Applications for certification of schools and exchange programs entitled to accept foreign students and/or trainees, campers, scholars, or other exchange visitors.

Law Office of Bonnie Stern Wasser
320 W Galer St #201
Seattle WA 98119-2916
Tel: 206 282-2279
Fax: 206 428-7159
E-mail: bonnie@bswasserlaw.com

Bonnie Stern Wasser is an attorney with more than 24 years of immigration and nationality law experience uniting families, and bringing employers and needed global talent together. Ms. Wasser is in private practice in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Admitted to practice in both California and Washington, Ms. Wasser is also certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as an Immigration and Nationality Law Specialist. Her diverse clientele has included multi-billion dollar corporations, small and medium sized companies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and individuals from around the world.

Ms. Wasser was an Honor Law Graduate and Trial Attorney with the (former) U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (now known as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security ). She worked for a national immigration law firm, Barst and Mukamal in Los Angeles, and a mid-sized firm, MacDonald, Hoague and Bayless, in Seattle, Washington. Ms. Wasser has spent most of her legal career in private practice in Los Angeles and, more recently, in Seattle.

A 1984 graduate of Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, Ms. Wasser also holds a Master's Degree in Urban Planning and Architecture from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Ecology from UC Irvine. Ms. Wasser studied in Bordeaux, France as part of the UC Education Abroad Program. Ms. Wasser is available to speak before bar associations, community and trade groups.