Ron Wada specializes in preparing immigrant visa petitions for first preference extraordinary ability, outstanding researcher, and multinational manager/executive categories as well as the second preference national interest waiver category, and the nonimmigrant O-1 visa category for individuals with extraordinary ability. He also has primary responsibility for overseeing appeals and troubleshooting difficult cases.

Before joining our firm, Mr. Wada compiled a broad base of experience in immigration law, encompassing employment-based practice, family-based practice, naturalization, asylum, and deportation defense litigation. He has extensive appellate brief writing experience and has published a variety of articles on topics in his areas of expertise in the national immigration law journal, Bender's Immigration Bulletin. He has also been a member of the editorial board of Bender's Immigration Bulletin since 2000, and currently serves on various national committees of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Mr. Wada received AILA's 1997 Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Field of Immigration Law.