Matthew Kolken

Matthew L. Kolken, Esq. is a trial lawyer with experience in all aspects of United States Immigration Law – including deportation defense before Immigration Courts throughout the United States, appellate practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) since 1997.

Mr. Kolken has appeared on CNN, been quoted in Forbes Magazine and the Los Angeles Times among others, has been an invited speaker at AILA's annual conference, is the author of the Deportation and Removal Blog on ILW.com, is a member of the advisory board of the Immigration Daily, and he is a prominent immigration reform activist having been listed as one of the top-ten most influential people on Twitter in the area of Immigration Law.

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