Olga Prygoda

Olga Prygoda is a U.S. attorney, member of the Washington State Bar and focuses her practice on corporate immigration law. More specifically, she focuses on work permits and permanent residency cases related to U.S employment. She stands out for her extensive knowledge of immigration practices under the CUSMA (formerly NAFTA) (TN), U.S. investor visa (E-1, E-2) and business agreement (B-1), internal transfer applications (L-1A, L-1B), professional application (H-1B) and exceptional skills cases (O-1A, O1B).

Olga holds an LLM in American law from the prestigious Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University (Arlington, Virginia - Washington, D.C.). She also holds an LL.B. (Common Law) from the University of London, England. Prior to joining BCF, Olga worked at a major think tank in Washington, D.C. Her work focused primarily on U.S. immigration policy research and bilateral relations between the United States and the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

She has also received several notable international fellowships, including the Edmund E. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program of the US Department of State (2001-2003). Olga also completed an internship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. and studied French at the Faculté des lettres, arts et sciences humaines at the Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France in 1998.

Passionate about languages and cultures, Olga is fluent in English, French and Russian, and she is currently learning Ukrainian. She is very involved in the Ukrainian community and has been using her knowledge to serve newcomers to the United States since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, working with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the City of Seattle, the Office for Refugee and Immigrant Affairs (Washington), and other prominent agencies and organizations.