Anastasia Bradatan is a JD Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. She has worked at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for two years prior to attending law school and is a member of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she received her BA in International Relations, Spanish- Portuguese and Hindi.
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