Kristen Nilsen is a Mentoring Attorney at VECINA. She joins VECINA from private practice, where she spent the past five years running a solo practice in northern California, helping clients navigate complex immigration laws.
Before that, Kristen worked as an immigration attorney for Refugee Women’s Alliance and Lutheran Community Services Northwest, providing low-cost legal assistance to refugees with naturalization, adjustment of status, family petitions, and consular processing. In these roles, she also trained and mentored new attorneys, law students, and accredited representatives in immigration law.
Kristen began her career as an Immigration Services Officer with USCIS before transitioning to work with refugees. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
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