Irina Lust is a senior lawyer in the Davis & Associates Russia and Eastern Europe Practice group.
Lust and her team focus on representing businesses of all sizes, high net worth individuals, investors, and entrepreneurs from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan achieve their U.S. business and immigration goals. Lust has significant experience with the alphabet soup of investor and business visas, including E2, L1, O-1, EB1A and EB5 visas.
A frequent guest expert on US business immigration on a variety of television programs, Lust has been featured in multiple newspapers and print media publications for her opinion on US business immigration as it pertains to the Russian speaking world.
Lust, who has a business economics background, has lectured about immigration issues at a wide variety of professional seminars and authored several legal articles on immigration topics.
In 2002, Lust obtained an undergraduate degree in business economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta. Then, in 2007, she earned her Juris Doctor degree at the New York Law School. Lust is admitted to practice law in the state of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern & Eastern Districts of New York, Connecticut District Court and the United States Supreme Court. Lust serves as an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is a member of Invest In the USA, an EB-5 trade association. Lust also holds a real estate brokers license from the State of New York and helps individuals and businesses in acquiring residential and commercial property.
Having immigrated to the United States from Siberia, Lust is a native Russian speaker.
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