Ava Xiaoqiu Wang

Ava Xiaoqiu Wang focuses her practice in immigration law. She routinely helps businesses and individuals navigate United States Immigration law to secure employment and establish businesses in the United States. Ms. Wang has extensive experience in the areas of employment visa and the EB-5 investment program.

With respect to employment visa, Ms. Wang succeeded in bringing “Aliens of Extraordinary Ability” to work in the United States. This includes computer software engineers from Denmark and Germany, a bullet expert from South Africa, a seeds expert from Pakistan, an HIV researcher from Japan, a graphic designer from Spain, a forest economist from New Zealand, and a Tai Qi master from China, to name a few.

In the complex EB-5 practice, Ms. Wang is involved in the designation of regional centers and I-526 and I-829 for investors. Currently, she counsels two regional centers that are active in Washington State.

Ms. Wang served as Special Legal Counsel for a major Washington State government office from 2000 to 2009, handling employment-based immigration matters for this office across the state. Ms. Wang is one of the two Chinese law students who have ever won a full scholarship from Harvard University.

• Immigration
• Employment
• Business and Finance

• Interesting Tax Issues in EB-5 Projects, 2017
• Interesting Tax Issues in EB-5 Projects, 2016
• Law Seminars International. Tribal Employment Rights & Laws.
• Federal EB-5 Employment Investor Visa Program. Seattle, WA, 2014

• American Immigration Lawyer Association

• Duke University Law School, SJD
  • Harvard Full Scholarship
• Boston University Law School, LLM
  • Harvard Full Scholarship
• Xiamen University Law School, JD

• Washington State Bar
• New York State Bar