Overview
Eryne Walvekar is an attorney in the Seattle office and a member of the firm’s Immigration Practice Group. Eryne’s practice focuses on business immigration, in addition to family-based petitions and naturalization. Eryne has extensive experience assisting companies in obtaining temporary work visas and employment-based permanent resident status for employees, including the filing of PERM labor certification applications, National Interest Waivers and other achievement-based petitions, and petitions for multinational managers. She represents companies in a broad range of industries and sizes, ranging from start-up companies to multinational Fortune 500 companies. Eryne previously worked at an Am Law 100 firm, where she advised employers on immigration compliance requirements and complex business immigration matters including immigration options for entrepreneurs and assessments of impact of corporate restructuring on visa dependent employees. She also assists employers and individuals in immigration-related federal court litigation.
Eryne is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the ABA-affiliated association for attorneys practicing immigration law. Eryne has presented and authored articles on immigration matters, including consular processing and advanced PERM issues.
Eryne earned her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law, where she participated in the Immigration Law Clinic and served as Executive Comments Editor for the Washington International Law Journal. During law school, Eryne served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, and interned in the Office of Disciplinary Counsel for the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.