Bio

Marina focuses her practice on immigration law. As a Ukrainian immigrant who has gone through the complex U.S. immigration process herself, Marina treats every immigration case she handles with exceptional care, priority, and diligence as if it were her own. She understands the high stakes and urgency of each client matter and is committed to providing thorough representation, reaching creative solutions, and achieving the best results for companies and individuals. Marina strongly believes in providing superior quality legal work and individualized attention to every single client. Meeting the immediate and long-term immigration needs of her clients in a proactive and efficient way is very important to her. She takes pride in being knowledgeable and organized and in taking personalized and scrupulous approach to each client matter. Marina ensures that her clients are fully content with understanding the applicable law and how it affects their individual case. She makes it a priority to keep clients updated on their case progress and informs them on periodic changes in the law. Marina began her career in Seattle, working for a nationally recognized law firm specializing in complex immigration matters, where she developed comprehensive expertise in immigration law. Prior to joining Belin McCormick, Marina spent over two years at a large law firm in Des Moines, specializing in employment-based immigration and I-9 regulatory compliance. Marina is passionate about increasing diversity in the workplace and helping employers hire and retain the best talent from around the globe. She represents employers across the spectrum, from multinational corporations to start-up companies, in a broad range of sectors, including high-tech, biotechnology, finance, marketing, industrial manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, and agriculture. In addition to corporate entities, she represents hospitals, educational institutions, and religious organizations in bringing workers to the U.S. on a temporary and permanent basis. Her specialty includes non-immigrant and immigrant visas, PERM, I-140, and Adjustment of Status applications. She has successfully prepared H-1B, TN, L-1, E-1, E-2, O-1, and other visa petitions for professionals, intracompany transferees, investors, researchers, physicians, scientists, professors, artists, and individuals with an extraordinary ability in their field. Marina assists companies in sponsoring their employees for a permanent resident status through the PERM labor certification process, Schedule A pre-certification, EB-1 petitions, and National Interest Waivers. Marina also has extensive appellate experience and has successfully represented matters before the Administrative Appeals Office and the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals. Legal: University of California-Hastings, J.D., 2011 (Notes Editor, Hastings Women’s Law Journal; Public Interest Recognition Award); Undergraduate: University of Washington, B.A., 2006 (Double Degree in Political Science and International Studies);