However, court papers state Nascimento offered the services without a license as she is not an attorney and does not have an educational background in law.
The AG’s office said that it received complaints about Nascimento’s conduct and estimated that approximately two dozen people sought her help as most agreed to pay a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for immigration assistance. “Ana Nascimento preys on immigrants’ hopes to find asylum or work in our state, then abandons them when they need her most — when they’re standing before an immigration judge,” Ferguson said. “She deprived dozens of families of a qualified advocate, and cheated them out of their hard-earned money. My team will prosecute immigration scammers exploiting families who simply want to live and work in Washington state.