Who We Are

Ankeny Law is a cross-border law firm based in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. We focus on U.S. and Canadian immigration law, trade law, corporate law, and civil litigation. We work with individuals, families, entrepreneurs, and businesses navigating the legal complexities of life and work across the U.S./Canada border and beyond.

We are a small firm by design. Every client who comes to us works directly with an experienced attorney, not a rotating cast of paralegals or junior associates. We believe that is how legal representation should work, especially in immigration matters where the stakes are high and the details matter.

We are also a Veteran-Owned Small Business. Lead attorney Jason Ankeny served in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps before spending more than 15 years as a federal officer with the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service and U.S. Customs & Border Protection. The values that defined that service, discipline, precision, accountability, and an unflinching commitment to doing the job right, define how we practice law.

Ankeny Law operates from Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, two cities that together form one of the most economically interconnected cross-border regions in the world. The Pacific Highway corridor between Blaine, WA and Vancouver sees billions of dollars in cross-border commerce annually, and the professional and entrepreneurial communities on both sides of the border are deeply intertwined.

Jason Ankeny began his government service career at that very border crossing. He knows this region, its communities, its commerce, and its people, not as an outsider who set up an office here, but as someone who has spent the better part of his adult life working in and around it.

Our Seattle office serves clients throughout Washington State, the Pacific Northwest, and across the United States. Our Vancouver office serves clients in British Columbia and across Canada. And because immigration law rarely confines itself to one jurisdiction, we routinely assist clients whose cases span both countries simultaneously.

We are not a large firm, and we do not try to be. Large firms have their place, but immigration law, particularly at the individual and small business level, is best practiced by attorneys who know their clients personally and carry their cases from start to finish.

When you hire Ankeny Law, you hire the attorney you meet at your consultation. Your case does not get handed off. Your calls do not go to a case manager who will relay messages. You work directly with the lawyer responsible for your outcome.

That is a commitment we make to every client. It is also, in our view, the only way to do this work right.