David Hirson - Bellevue, WA
Attorney at David Hirson & Partners, LLP
EB-5 Investment Immigration Law Lawyers in Bellevue, WA
500 108th Ave NE Floor 11 Bellevue, WA 98004
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Bellevue EB-5 Investment Immigration Law Lawyer
Updated: 03/16/2026
Areas of Practice
- EB-5 Investment Immigration Law
Attorney Information
Overview
David has over 40 years of experience in the practice of immigration law. His focus is on EB-5 investment immigration law. He has been certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization continuously since 1990.
Representative Experience:
- Manages immigration accounts for multiple companies and individual investors.
- Assists companies with start-up expansion, merger and acquisition relating to immigration law, compliance and case processing.
- Retained by many high net worth individuals in the immigration related aspects of their investments.
- Advises on the start-up of and files Regional Center applications and individual Green Card applications for investors under the EB- 5 Investor Visa category. This includes EB-5 investors of all categories: Regional Center investors, single investors in direct hire programs, and multiple investors in small and large direct hire programs. David is considered a senior and highly experienced EB-5 attorney. In particular, the following are some of his experience in this specific field:
- Has been actively involved with EB-5 cases since passage of the law in 1990.
- Was present in the Senate in Washington, D.C. in 1990 when the EB-5 bill was marked up and Senator Biden, now Vice President Biden, was debating the proposed new law.
- In 1991, personally prepared and filed one of the very first EB-5 cases with the INS (now USCIS). The case was approved and the investor and family returned to the U.S. to be admitted as a conditional permanent resident in less than 5 months. The same case was the first case to be consular processed and approved at the AIT (American Institute of Travel) in Taiwan.
- Successfully filed and received approvals of many cases in the first 10 years of the program. Only about 300 cases were approved annually by the INS/USCIS in the early years of the program. After year 2000, the program began to pick up and the approved EB-5 cases broke through the 1000 barrier. In fiscal year 2013, almost the full quota of 10,000 EB-5 visas were issued.
- Personally argued appeals at the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and had 4 cases approved after they were denied by the INS/USCIS and certified to the appeal unit.
- Has applied for multiple regional centers to be designated and approved by USCIS.
- Was the partner leading the sizeable EB-5 team at the Fragomen Irvine office, which comprised of attorneys, supervising paralegals, paralegals, legal assistants, and administrative staff.
- Referred many of the EB-5 cases within the U.S. Fragomen offices including San Diego, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, and Washington, D.C.
Awards and Honors
Honors
- International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Corporate Immigration)
- Southern California Super Lawyers, America’s Best Lawyers, Best Immigration Lawyers in United States by Best of the U.S., annually from 2006 – 2014
- Martindale Hubbell AV Rated for almost 20 consecutive years, 1995 – 2014
- Recognized as one of the Top 50 Lawyers in Orange County, 2007 – 2014
- Orange Coast Top Attorney, 2006 – 2014
- Strathmore’s Who’s Who, Professional of the year 2007 and Lifetime Member
- America’s Registry, Outstanding Professional, 2008 – 2014
- Madison Who’s Who Registry of Executives & Professionals, 2009 – 2014
- American Honor’s Society, Standards of Professionalism within the field of Legal Service and Global Immigration Laws, inducted 2011
- EB-5 Immigration Law Firm of the Year 2012 presented by Artisan Business Group, Inc.
- American Society of Legal Advocates Top 100 Immigration Lawyer in the State of California
Current Employment Position(s)
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Founding Partner
Classes and Seminars
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Panel member on advanced topics at the ILW all-day EB-5 seminar, New York December, 2013
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Lecturer, EB-5 topic to attorneys and to the public in the U.S., China, UAE, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Vietnam
- Lectures to Bar Associations, Human Resources Associations, Chambers of Commerce, Investment programs and trade organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
Published Works
Articles
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Author “How to Become a Regional Center” for EB-5 investor magazine
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Author “Direct Investment Private equity Model” for EB-5 Investor magazine
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Co-author on numerous publications relating to EB-5 regulations and investments
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Member of the editorial board and contributor to “The EB-5 Handbook, A Guide for Investors and Developers” to be published in 2014
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Member of the editorial board and contributor to EB5Investor.com magazine. All published additions and preparing for the Fall 2014 edition
- Author of Immigration Chapter Section of “Corporate Compliance Practice Guide: The Next Generation of Compliance,” LexisNexis 2009 (updated 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and preparing 2014 update)
- Author of two EB-5 related editions of Immigration Briefings, a publication of West ®, a Thomson Reuters company, Hirson, David & Mayou, Catherine I., “The Sinking of the Titanic, or the Rising of the Phoenix? – An update on Immigrant Investor Visas,” 98-9 Immigration Briefings (September 1998)
- Author of two EB-5 related editions of Immigration Briefings, a publication of West ®, a Thomson Reuters company, Hirson, David, “Immigrant Investors: Five Years Later,” 95–11 Immigration Briefings (November 1995)
- Co-Author of the Immigration Chapter Section of “Corporate Legal Departments,” Practicing Law Institute (updated annually for more than 5 years. Preparing 2014 update)
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
Specialties and Certifications
- Certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization, 1990
Other Affiliations
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Orange County Bar Association
- Member, Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Chapter Chair, Southern California Chapter of AILA
- Chaired, State Bar of California, International Law Section
- Chaired, State Bar of California, International Law Section, Immigration Law sub-committee
- Chaired, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Investor Visa Committee
- Co-Chair Committee on Consular Processing Southern California Chapter of AILA
- Vice-Chair, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS now USCIS) Headquarters Liaison Committee in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Office of AILA
- Co-Chair, Liaison Committee to the Western Region of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (WAC) now California Service Center on behalf of AILA
- Member, Orange County Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section
- Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Immigration Law Section
- Member, American Bar Association (ABA)
- Member of the policy committee of the IIUSA (Invest in USA), an EB-5 Regional Center trade and professional organization
- Member of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA)
Contact
500 108th Ave NE
Floor 11
Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: 206-926-3973
Email: Send a message
Website: https://www.hirsonimmigration.com
Hours: By Appointment Only
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