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also known as Kate 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).
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12535 15th Ave NE, Suite 218, Seattle, WA, 98125
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Posted by Natalia | January 24, 2024 | Hired Attorney | Immigration
Highly qualified attorney
We contacted Katya Stelmakh to settle the issue regarding O1/EB1A visa to the US. Her recommendations were so clear and precise that we didn't hesitate about what choice to make after her briefing us. She has provided us with all the required information and led step by step to the desired "Approval....
Posted by Vladimir | January 22, 2024 | Hired Attorney | Immigration
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I contacted the law firm Stelmakh&Associates to request assistance in applying for an O1A non-immigrant visa. My case was not an easy one - I collected a large number of documents, and I had to very carefully select the most suitable ones and correctly structure the cover letter so that USCIS offic...
Posted by Tanya | January 12, 2024 | Hired Attorney | Asylum
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Posted by Sharekh Shaikh | December 13, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Immigration
Hands down one of the best immigration law firms! 100% success rate on all our visa H1B, O1A & EB1A applications.
I'm a startup founder and I've recently had my I-140 for EB1A approved. I've known Katya for a few years now and worked with the Stelmakh & Associates team on multiple employment based immigration visas including O1A and EB1A for myself and H1B for my team. As an immigrant founder, immigration is...
Posted by Artem | December 12, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Immigration
Artem
I am really happy with the work done by attorney Katya Stelmakh and her team in helping me and my family get our green cards. I came to the US with my wife and two kids as refugees from Ukraine, and I started a small home appliance business. I didn’t know if I could get a green card. I did not have m...
"Katya and I have worked together on many cases. She is a professional in the truest sense of the word. She is a great lawyer, honest, caring and dedicated. She has a vast knowledge of business immigration and family immigration law. I fully recommend and support her work in the community and on behalf of immigrants across the country."
Corporate and incorporation lawyer
Immigration lawyer
2021
Top 10 Emerging Immigration Law Firms, Manage HR Magazine
2004
CALI Award for Excellence in Comparative Employment Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
2003
John M. Adams Award for Excellence in Constitutional Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
2001
Winner - Belarus national round, Oralist - international round, The Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
2008 - Present
Owner and Managing Director, Stelmakh & Associates, LLC
2008 - 2008
Contract Attorney, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
2005 - 2007
Attorney, Marks & Sokolov
2004 - 2004
Legal Intern, World Bank
2003 - 2003
Legal Intern, Bailey Cavalieri, LLC
2008 - Present
American Immigration Lawyers AssociationMember
2005
JD - Juris Doctor
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Certificate
2024
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Russian
Ukrainian
Belarusian
English