White & Associates was founded in 1993 by Kenneth White, an honors graduate of the George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D. C. Mr. White, who has worked in all three branches of the U. S. government, including the State and Commerce Departments, U. S. Congress, and District of Columbia Superior Court, is licensed by the State of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and is a member of the D. C. and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals and D. C. District Court bars. He has conducted several seminars on immigration and business topics and was a speaker at the August 2010 EB-5 conference in Boston.
Mr. White is the author of the books U. S. Nonimmigrant Visas (available on Amazon. com) and U. S. Immigration and Citizenship, as well as dozens of articles, including “Russian EB-5 Investors – Unwrapping the Mystery,” “Challenging a Finding of Inadmissibility” and “Top 25 Reasons Visa Applicants are Denied.” Mr. White is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (since 1994) and the Association to Invest in USA, an organization active in the promotion of the EB-5 program. He has represented EB-5 investors dating back to the mid-1990s, when the program was in its nascency. Since the renaissance of the EB-5 program, he has represented dozens of investors and their family members in achieving permanent residency status. In addition to a concentration in the EB-5 area, Mr. White has a well-rounded practice, with experience in resolving complicated visa issues, overcoming prior visa rejections and ineligibilities, as well as securing waivers on behalf of clients . He has also spearheaded groundbreaking litigation, including suing the US Embassy in Moscow on two occasions: ensuring changes in its processing of DV Lottery applications after the Lotterygate scandal, and securing a court order directing it to make a visa decision expeditiously on an application pending for more than three years.
Mr. White has traveled to thirty five countries and represented clients at more than a dozen consulates around the world.