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We went through it and now will help you
Meet Our Team
Imigrata was founded by immigrants who went through the tedious perils of immigration before modern Internet tools were commonly available. Today we are fortunate to use both our experience and all modern tools to make immigration affordable to everyone.
  • Alex Khodorkovsky
    Founder & CEO
    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 Smirnov
    Director of Operations
    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, Armenia and Tunisia outside of his former home country Russia.

    He currently works out of a remote office in Montenegro.
  • Polina Ukhanova
    Head of Research and
    Social Media
    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 & 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 Konovalov
    CTO
    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.

    The past year Vlad has spent trying out nomad life in at least a half-dozen of East-Asian countries and he has the best looking Instagram out of all of us.
  • Ely Gorodetsky
    Head of Portugal visa department
    Ely 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.
  • Yana Shmidt
    Country manager — Portugal
    Yana has lived in Portugal for 22 years. She graduated from high school and earned a university degree in linguistics here.

    She had to deal with immigration issues since she was 15, when her family first moved to Germany and then to Portugal for their permanent residence. She actively participated in all stages of gathering and obtaining immigration documents, right up to citizenship. She has experience running her own business in Portugal and is very familiar with all of the details of how the Portuguese system of government and institutions function.

    She also dealt with the adaptation of foreign children in Portuguese schools. Yana herself has a little son, and she knows firsthand about childbirth and kindergartens in Portugal.
  • Miguel Osadchy
    Portuguese programs manager
    Miguel is IMIGRATA's expert in Portugal and our former client for D4 (master's program) resident's visa.

    He is a Ph.D. in linguistics but currently works on finishing his master's program in art markets. Miguel is extremely well-traveled and has extensive knowledge of ins and outs of Portuguese residential visa programs.


    Besides providing immigration advice and personally servicing our clients in Portugal, he will offer you practical support in finding the right education program, establishing a company or opening a bank account in Portugal.
  • Anastasia Fedoseeva
    Head of educational programs
    Anastasia is a serial student. She first studied political science, then advertising and PR, and then tried herself in studying management. Perhaps that is why her professional aspirations lie in the field of education.

    At IMIGRATA Anastasia specializes in professional and higher education programs in Europe. In addition to providing expert consultations, Anastasia is always ready to share her personal experience of studying, finding housing and opening a bank account in Italy, for example.

    Anastasia is a true nomad — over the past 5 years she has lived in the USA, Romania, Italy and Sri Lanka, and now she and her husband are looking for a new destination for immigration.
  • Maria Dotsenko
    Country manager, Ecuador
    Maria met Ecuador in 2019,, and after a year of life on two countries, she decided to move and start a new life in this beautiful, but a little known to her country of South America. Before moving, she spent 16 years making a successful career at a major pharmaceutical company, and worked as a pediatrician before that.

    Mother of two beautiful daughters, she gladly shares her experience and knowledge. She has gone through a difficult process of adaptation for her teenage children in a new country.

    Maria consults on all the relocation programs in Ecuador and will be your most useful contact there if you decide to move with us.
  • Andrey Sviridov
    Country manager, Serbia
    Andrey comes from St.Petersburg, Russia, where he worked in defense and high-tech. After the pandemic, he decided it was time to re-evaluate his life and move on, travel the world and settle down some better place.

    Having moved to Belgrade and getting a residence card there by means of the real estate purchase program (which he can share with you in detail), he is now an expert in all residency programs there for IMIGRATA.

    Serbia is the country of contrasts, where the official rules don't always match the real way of life, and Andrey will be your experienced guide in all things local.

    He is constantly improving his knowledge of Serbian language and currently work on the best recipe for local brandy distillation. He’s also a tech guy, and he can break and fix almost anything (in that order).
  • Emil Kadyrov
    Country manager, Montenegro
    Emil has lived in Montenegro for the last six years, so he knows this small country inside and out.

    Originally from Baku, Azerbaijan, Emil speaks Russian, Turkish, English and now Montenegrin languages. Emil has degrees in law and economics.

    Emil will become your personal guide in the sunny Montenegro and supervise the process of obtaining a residence permit there.
  • Svyatoslav Afanasov
    Country manager, Spain
    Svyatoslav moved to Spain in 2022 and obtained his residence permit through the program of learning Spanish.

    He gathered a database of all suitable language courses for resident program and will be your experienced guide for this as well as the Digital Nomad program.

    Svyatoslav is our country manager in Spain and is responsible for the process of fast and easy legalization of clients there. He lives in Valencia.
Partnerships
In our efforts to automate traditional tedious tasks of data collection, research and analytics of immigration data and providing competent expert services to clients,
we are always looking for partners.

We invite immigration attorneys and and immigration boutique companies and other related providers to contact us for cooperation in servicing our clients. We also invite immigration-related websites to partner with us in co-branding our products on your sites.
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Atlanta, GA 30342

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