About
Lisa Ellis brings cost to clients with the aid of imparting individualized service and fourteen years of revel in to help customers obtain their immigration desires. Her immigration exercise emphasizes commercial enterprise, circle of relatives, naturalization and worldwide migration paintings consisting of H-1B, L-1, PERM, Students/Schools, I-9 Compliance and petitions for own family individuals, and non secular employees. Lisa speaks regularly on immigration subjects nationally and regionally. She was the immigration attorney of a complete-provider law office in Seattle for almost 9 years previous to founding Ellis Immigration Law. Lisa has been selected as a Rising Star via Washington Super Lawyers and is presently appointed to the Board of Publications for the National American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Her e book, Visa Solutions for International Students, Scholars, and Sponsors: What You Need to Know became published in 2012 by way of Thomson Reuters/Aspatore. Her articles and chapters have also been published in The Visa Processing Guide and Consular Posts Handbook, 2007 - 2010 eds., Inside the Minds: New Developments in Immigration Enforcement and Compliance, and Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law, 2013-14 ed. After graduating from the University of Oregon School of Law, Lisa become an Lawyer Advisor for seven immigration judges at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a position she entered thru the U.S. Lawyer General s Honors Program. Prior to getting into private practice, she additionally become a law clerk for the Honorable Robert H. Whaley at the U.S. District Court of Eastern Washington and a Trial Lawyer for the U.S. Federal Defender s Office of Eastern Washington and Idaho in which she treated a wide-range of immigration topics. A local of the Seattle place, Lisa lived in Australia and has traveled to twenty-five countries up to now. Coming from a circle of relatives involved in humanitarian causes , Lisa s criminal angle is to obtain the quality viable customer outcomes via collaboration and know-how. › ›
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- Principal Lawyer
Ellis Immigration Law, LLC
2013 - Associate Lawyer
Ellis Li & McKinstry PLLC
2004 - Trial Lawyer
Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho
2002 - Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Whaley
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
2002 - Session Counsel to Judiciary Committee
Washington State Senate Committee Services
2001 - Lawyer Advisor
Executive Office for Immigration Review
2000 - Lawyer Advisor selected under U.S. Lawyer General s Honor Program
Executive Office for Immigration Review
2000
Educations
Graduation year: 1997
Graduation year: 1989
