Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Alex became an immigrant at the age of 15, when he moved to Atlanta, USA.
Although he hates the expression "a serial entrepreneur", he certainly qualifies to be so called. He founded over a dozen companies in various industries: IT, travel, entertainment, HoReCa, publishing.

Most of Alex's projects were pioneers in their fields: the first Russian transit hotel, the first restaurant employing all identical-twin staff, the first major GLBTQ social dating network for CIS countries, the first Jewish & Masonic cocktail bar, and many other firsts.

Alex is currently going through his second immigration — this time to Portugal. He believes that immigration is a new start that most people need in their lives.

Pavel is a seasoned nomad and an immigration specialist since 2020.


Before he became a pro in immigration to Europe, i.e. startup visas, entrepreneur, global talent and golden visa programs, he was actually an orientalist. He is just as versed in the history and how different ancient temples are built as he is in digital nomad visa programs.

He has lived in Poland, the Netherlands and Tunisia outside of his home in Russia.

He currently works out of a remote office in Armenia.

Polina is a graduate of the Institute of Journalism & Literary Creativity in St. Petersburg, Russia.
She has two higher educations and is professionally engaged in fashion, art and the new ethics; she writes articles and lectures. She is the founder of the School "FASHION + ART", curator of exhibitions, editor-in-chief of the book series "Architectural Heritage of Russia", participant in international conferences on fashion and art.

Polina's area of expertise @ Imigrata is communications, social media and immigration policy research.

She considers herself a half-immigrant splitting her time equally between Russia & Spain since 2012.

Vlad invests his resources and expertise in the fields of his personal interests that are related to improving people's lives: HR-tech, sport apps and health-tech projects. Although not yet an immigrant himself, Vlad is a real world nomad, spending a good chunk of his time in Bali, surfing the Indonesian waves.

Vlad is responsible for technological solutions, drawing up technical requirements, selecting vendors and partners and is basically in charge of the "tech" part in our Legaltech startup.

Ilya studied to be a doctor, but changed his mind and left medical school for business. For more than 8 years he has been developing his own project related to tourism and  corporate event planning.

His personal travel experiences prompted him to decide to immigrate. In 2021 he moved to Portugal, sucessuflly prepared his D7 program case on his own and received his Portuguese resident card later.

After relocation, Ilya realized just how much immigration can change a person's life for the better, and decided that he wanted to help others in this important process. He left tourism for immigration and now solves the most complex immigration cases of our clients in Portugal.

Victoria is another one of our recent transplants from Russia to Portugal. In addition to being our key specialist in Educational and Startup programs, she is working on her own startup in the field of mass communications. She has a degree in journalism, which she studied in Russia as well as University of Porto.

Victoria has first hand knowledge of higher education system in Portugal as well as startup environment and dealing with incubators and related government resources.

She has probably visited most, if not all wine tastings in Lisbon, and promised to soon move to Porto — her favorite city in the whole world.

Yaroslava is our former client turned employee. She moved to Portugal in 2022 to study Portuguese using our services and now lives and takes language classes in Braga.

She joined our team recently and turned her personal immigration experience into a new exciting work.

Before immigrating to Portugal, Yaroslava worked in tourism as a travel manager for over 10 years.

Vadim moved to Serbia when he was 14, quickly learned new language and made his first pocket money by hustling as a translator at 15.

He studied to be an electrician, but was more successful as a self-taught programmer, and before that tried lots of different business endeavors.

Vadim is our coordinator for operations in Serbia and oversees client services and partner relations in that country.

Elena is our former client turned employee. She moved to Porto, Portugal in 2022 not speaking any Portuguese, and enrolled into a Master's program in visual arts at the University of Porto. All of her classes are in Portuguese, and she is making great progress so far.

Before relocating to Portugal she worked as an interior designer and branch director for one of the leading global fast food chains.

At IMIGRATA Elena is responsible for client relations and agreement execution. She can also share her first-hand experience of studying in a masters program as well as relocating with small kids (she has two of her own).