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Embrace • Inspire • Change With immigrant parents it is hard to take anything for granted, for Tahmina Watson this rings true. Daughter of immigrants in the UK turned Immigrant in the USA, Tahmina Watson knows the ins and outs of immigration. Who better to become an immigration lawyer than a person who has experienced it twice?

From Immigrant to Immigration Lawyer

With Featured Guest

Tahmina Watson

Embrace • Inspire • Change

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Embrace • Inspire • Change With immigrant parents it is hard to take anything for granted, for Tahmina Watson this rings true. Daughter of immigrants in the UK turned Immigrant in the USA, Tahmina Watson knows the ins and outs of immigration. Who better to become an immigration lawyer than a person who has experienced it twice?

From Immigrant to Immigration Lawyer

With Featured Guest

Tahmina Watson

Embrace • Inspire • Change

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Top Takeaways From This Episode

  • Immigrants work hard no matter where they go to build a life for themselves
  • The experience of the immigrant is vastly different depending on where you are immigrating from
  • Luck meets opportunity 
  • Pro bono work helped understand what the community needs and fears were and helped overcome those fears
  • We all come from somewhere… Forgetting that is doing a disservice to us as a country

Immersive Immigration Experience

Tahmina Watson was born and raised in the United Kingdom. As a daughter of two immigrants she never considered herself to be an immigrant to the UK, she was always just a British Bengali. Everything changed when she met her future husband and moved to the United States. Decades after watching her parents struggle with the reality of their immigration status, Tahmina gained first-hand experience of life as an immigrant.

Helping Others

With the intention of becoming a barrister, she decided to follow in her father's footsteps and go to law school. Tahmina always knew she wanted to help people, but she couldn't have imagined that pro-bono work would have the most impact. This pro-bono work formed her into the human that she is today and gave her a different perspective on life.

Just Like Dad

Her father immigrated to the UK before she was born and became an immigration lawyer in the UK. Becoming an immigration lawyer was never a dream Tahmina had, although he did inspire her to practice law in the first place.

Becoming an immigration lawyer in the United States is a difficult feat for anybody, and it’s even more challenging when you’re an immigrant yourself. The first-hand experience helped Tahmina realize she was called to the work.

Connect with Tahmina and learn more 

Tahmina Watson is a Seattle-based immigration attorney, podcaster, and activist. Tahmina has been recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal (PbSBJ) For her community work where she was named a 2020 Woman of Influence honoree. She's the founder of Watson Immigration Law and the Washington Immigrant Defense Network. Nationally, Tahmina is a commentator and columnist and speaks around the country on immigration law and social justice issues. 

Find Tahmina Talks Immigration anywhere you stream podcasts and check out her books in The Brave Files Podcast guest library. 

Discover more at www.watsonimmigrationlaw.com.

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Giving is Good

Tahmina’s favorite charitable organization is a nonprofit that she set up called the Washington Immigrant Defense Network. This network allows them to train lawyers to help in a mass crisis. This has become an incredibly important platform with everything going on in Ukraine. This nonprofit was originally established to help separated parents at the border but has since become a primary way to address the timely crisis where lawyers are so desperately needed in large numbers.

"When unkind words are used to describe people, it gives a license to people who share that mentality to be unkind."

- Tahmina Watson

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Heather Vickery is an award-winning business owner and global leader with over 20 years as an entrepreneur. She leverages her entrepreneurial skills and expertise to coach individuals towards greater personal and professional fulfillment by helping them leverage their fear into intentional bravery. Heather says “When we choose bravely, on purpose, we choose bigger, have bigger successes and it’s contagious” A celebrated public speaker, Heather inspires audiences and empowers attendees with the tools they need to live bold and successful lives through creating balance, time management, mindfulness, as well as countless systems, strategies, and boundaries. She’s the author of Gratitude Journal: Shift Your Focus and Grow Grateful: A Gratitude Journal for Kids and Families. Heather is also the host and executive producer of The Brave Files Podcast.

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