Lola Zakharova

Lola assists companies in securing temporary work visas and employment-based permanent resident status for international talent.

She also represents U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents wishing to sponsor family members for immigration status and assists clients in obtaining temporary U.S. visas at U.S. consulates abroad.

Lola has worked in the immigration law field for over 20 years. Prior to joining MacDonald Hoague & Bayless in 2013, Lola served as an immigration paralegal in the in-house legal department of a multinational telecommunications corporation, supporting the company’s foreign national employees, HR, Recruiting, and corporate leadership on a wide variety of immigration issues. Before that, Lola spent 10 years working in the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, focusing on non-immigrant and immigrant visas and leading the Embassy’s fraud detection and prevention program. While in law school, Lola served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Michael S. Spearman at Division One of the Washington Court of Appeals. Lola speaks Russian and Uzbek languages.

Lola is an active advocate on immigration and international issues, having served on King County Immigration Task Force and currently serving on the City of Seattle International Affairs Advisory Board. She is a frequent speaker on immigration topics and is often quoted by the press.