Arno Martinez Law, PLLC of East Wenatchee

Arno Martinez Law, PLLC of East Wenatchee is an immigration law firm in East Wenatchee, Washington, serving Wenatchee and North Central Washington. The firm's attorneys handle affirmative and defensive applications before US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the immigration court (EOIR), as well as matters before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Its services include family petitions for US citizens and lawful permanent residents seeking visas for certain relatives, and humanitarian immigration work: U visa petitions, T visa petitions, VAWA self-petitions, and petitions for waiver to remove conditions on residency. Appeal brief writing for cases before the BIA is available by contract. The firm holds a rating of 4.60 based on 18 reviews.

The firm's attorneys bring more than twenty years of combined immigration legal experience. Co-founder Vanessa Arno Martinez was first licensed by the Washington State Bar in 2013 and previously spent over four years as a staff attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Wenatchee, where she represented survivors of violence in rural eastern Washington, including minors and adult immigrant survivors, both before USCIS and before the immigration court and the Board of Immigration Appeals. During law school she volunteered with Casa Latina's Workers' Defense Committee, spent a summer as a clinical student at the Universidad Centroamericana Bufete Juridico in Managua, Nicaragua, and later worked as a legal extern in the Granger office of NWIRP. She served on the board of the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington and is a Washington Leadership Institute Fellow, class of 2018. Co-founder Paula Arno Martinez worked for Colectiva Legal before starting the firm.

The office is on Palouse Street in East Wenatchee, a short walk from the public artworks Bowed Raven and Samaras, and about a quarter mile from the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. North Wenatchee Avenue, South Mission Street and Orondo Avenue all run within roughly a tenth of a mile.

The firm has built a solid reputation among the customers it has served, reflected in its 4.60 rating across 18 reviews.