Law Office of Bonnie Stern Wasser
—Bringing People Together—
About Our Services
At the Law Office of Bonnie Stern Wasser, we bring people together by providing legal services in the field of Immigration and Nationality Law. We assist individuals born abroad as well as US citizens.
Services for Employers and Entrepreneurs:
We help companies, education institutions, non-profits and other organizations lawfully employ or collaborate with the best talent they can find worldwide. We provide counseling about and acquisition of business-based temporary visas and green cards for:
- Highly educated professional and skilled workers
- Researchers and scholars
- Multi-national transferees
- Investors
- People with exceptional, extraordinary or culturally unique talents in the sciences, arts, business, entertainment and sports
- People working in shortage occupations.
- Workplace compliance plans
- H-1B, E-3, H-2A-B, PERM & I9 internal audits
- E-Verify analysis & training
- Acquisition of temporary and permanent visas for global talent & investors
Services for Families and Individuals
We also bring families together and help loved ones re-unite through family based and individual immigration services such as:
- Fiancé(e), marriage and family based immigration (visas and green cards)
- Asylum and refugee processing
- Acquired, derived, automatic citizenship and naturalization
- Iimmigration and citizenship for military personnel and their families
- Individual based work, education and other temporary visas and green cards.
- Retention and abandonment issues of permanent residence and citizenship, permanent residence preservation planning services.
- Diversity visa lottery
- Specialized & country-specific programs (e.g., TPS, NACARA, LIFE, VAWA, etc.)
Whether seeking temporary or permanent immigration to the US, the process can be exciting on the one hand, and complex and lengthy on the other. Due to recent legislation, increasingly more US citizens are hiring the Law Office of Bonnie Stern Wasser to help with new travel and workplace enforcement identity documents.
We know that the US immigration process can be daunting, bureaucratic and stressful for our business and individual clients. Our goal is to reduce that stress as much as possible and to obtain the benefits sought ethically and efficiently. The mission of the firm is to educate and empower our business and individual clients about the procedures involved, manage expectations, help our clients understand the potential issues they may face, and teach them to proactively be involved in preparing and understanding the nature of their case and to keep track of the progress of their applications.
A prospective or new immigrant's experience with an immigration attorney is often the first contact with an attorney in the United States. Our goal is to make that experience with counsel less daunting, productive, positive and educational. New immigrants are frequently referred to an array of professionals and service providers to help ease the transition to living in the United States.
The firm's service philosophy is to:
- Zealously advocate for clients before various agencies involved with immigration and citizenship.
- Although successful results cannot be guaranteed, our goal is to strive to obtain outstanding results for our clients within the bounds of ethics and the law.
- Deliver high quality services for a reasonable fee resulting in valuable benefits and solutions for our clients.
- Provide personal service to all clients insuring that each may work directly with an attorney: Calls/emails are returned promptly. Clients are kept informed about the progress of their cases. They are empowered to understand the legal issues, procedures and estimated processing times.
- Keep current on legal, international, economic and political trends impacting immigration policy and laws through constant continuing education;
- Enhance the firm's reputation in the field by serving on bar committees, speaking at local, state and national bar groups, trade and community organizations, and by writing articles for trade journals and specialized publications;
- Develop long lasting relationships with clients to ensure repeat and referral business.
- Provide annual pro bono service hours for non-profit organizations such as AILA’s annual Citizenship Days, King County Bar Association Neighborhood Immigration Clinic, and for other organizations.
- Advocate, and teach our clients to advocate for needed changes to our immigration laws before the US Congress, state legislatures and the federal Administration.
Updated 10/2011
