Lisa Ellis brings value to clients by providing individualized service and seventeen years of experience to help clients achieve their immigration goals. Her immigration practice emphasizes business, family, naturalization and global migration work including H-1B, L-1, PERM, Students/Schools, I-9 Compliance and petitions for family members, religious workers, athletes and cultural performers. Lisa speaks regularly on immigration topics nationally and regionally. She was the immigration attorney of a full-service law firm in Seattle for nearly nine years prior to founding Ellis Immigration Law.

Lisa has been selected as a Rising Star by Washington Super Lawyers and is currently appointed to the Board of Publications for the National American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Her book, "Visa Solutions for International Students, Scholars, and Sponsors: What You Need to Know" was published in 2012 by Thomson Reuters/Aspatore and she has written other articles for nationally recognized publications.  

After graduating from the University of Oregon School of Law, Lisa was an Attorney Advisor at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a position she entered through the U.S. Attorney General's Honors Program. Prior to entering private practice, she also was a law clerk for the Honorable Robert H. Whaley at the U.S. District Court of Eastern Washington and a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Federal Defender's Office of Eastern Washington and Idaho where she handled a wide-range of immigration matters. 

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