Immigration attorney Melina LaMorticella was a featured panelist at the 2023 AILA PNW Regional Conference hosted by the Washington Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Seattle, Washington. Melina and her co-panelists discussed best practices for merit-based visa petitions, reviewing critical hiring needs in STEM fields, offering tips for presenting merit-based criteria, and outlining additional options for employees of extraordinary and exceptional abilities.
Melina LaMorticella is a partner in Tonkon Torp’s Business Immigration Practice Group, where she represents regional and international companies in matters related to employment-based immigration. She has successfully handled immigration matters for multinational corporations and regional technology firms, health care providers, and universities on non-immigrant and immigrant visa options and procedures including Conrad 30 waivers, PERM Applications, National Interest Waivers, and Extraordinary Ability Petitions.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association, founded in 1946, is a voluntary bar association of over 15,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law
