Katya Stelmakh

Katya Stelmakh directs a business immigration law firm Stelmakh & Associates. She represents domestic and foreign companies and individuals in business and family immigration matters. Ms. Stelmakh's clients range from individual entrepreneurs and their families to startup and large companies in technology, real estate, education, consulting, food services, and other industries. Ms. Stelmakh also assists investors, professional workers, academic researchers, students, artists, and entertainers with non-immigrant visas and green cards. 

Ms. Stelmakh has over 14 years of experience in the field of business immigration law. Prior to founding Stelmakh & Associates in 2008, she managed business immigration practice of an international law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Moscow, Russia, and Kiev, Ukraine. While with the firm, Ms. Stelmakh counseled one of the world's largest ferro-alloy and steel manufacturers on all international business personnel relocation matters and travel concerns. She also litigated international intellectual property and contractual business disputes and advised corporate clients on international business transactions. 

Ms. Stelmakh also worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC, where she drafted loan and grant agreements with Russia and other CIS countries -- including an $80 million loan for the Russian Hydromet Modernization Project. In addition, for the World Bank, she did research and drafting on matters of international armed conflict and refugee law and analyzed cases of the International Criminal Court, South-African Truth & Reconciliation Commission International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and other courts.

Ms. Stelmakh received her J.D. and M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures degrees from The Ohio State University. While in a nationally ranked top-tier The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Ms. Stelmakh clerked in the litigation department of a prominent Ohio firm Bailey Cavalieri LLC.

Ms. Stelmakh is licensed in Ohio, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and is authorized to practice immigration law in any US state. She is currently an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).