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Kolko & Associates, P.C., is pleased to announce that its Managing Partner, David Kolko, has been invited to speak at the AILA Texas Chapter Spring Conference, being held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 24-25, 2015. Mr. Kolko has been invited to participate, discussing Motions to Reopen before the Immigration Court.
Continue Reading Kolko & Associates is honored to have two of our attorneys invited to speak at the Annual Conference hosted by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). AILA is a 13,000 member strong organization dedicated to the enrichment of the practice of immigration law. This year’s conference, being held at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of […]
Continue Reading Kolko & Associates is honored to be sending two of our attorneys to Washington, D.C., on April 16, 2015, to sit with Colorado’s delegation to Congress to discuss immigration issues affecting Colorado. Each year, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, or AILA, holds a lobbying day, called the National Day of Action, where association members travel […]
Continue Reading USCIS has announced that it will extend employment authorization to some non-immigrants in H-4 visa status. This is very welcome news for spouses of some H-1B visa holders. Beginning May 26, 2015, some H-4 visa holders will be granted employment authorization. To qualify, the H-4 visa holder must be married to an H-1B visa holder. […]
Continue Reading On February 16, 2015, a federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts the implementation of the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans & Residents (DAPA) programs. The expansion of DACA and the DAPA programs were announced as a part of […]
Continue Reading USCIS’s preview instructions for the updated DACA request form, Form I-821D, show that DACA requesters may additionally apply for advance parole at the same time as filing for DACA. This appears to be available for both initial requesters and DACA renewals. Effectively, this means that DACA requesters will not have to wait until their DACA […]
Continue Reading On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that allows individuals who were brought to the United States when they were under age 16, to apply for Deferred Action and Employment Authorization if they had resided in the United States for at least 5 years, were enrolled […]
Continue Reading The Mexican government announced this month that starting January 15, 2015, all Mexican consulates in the United States will begin issuing certified copies of birth certificates for births registered in Mexico. This new policy will be of great assistance to the many Mexican nationals residing the United States in obtaining these vital records. In order […]
Continue Reading On December 15, 2014, in a completely unprecedented move, the Colorado Bar Association’s (CBA) Executive Committee met and unanimously voted to provide matching funds of up to $50,000 in order to fund the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) Children’s Program (http://www.rmian.org/childrens-program/) and to provide legal services to Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Removal Proceedings. CBA […]
Continue Reading The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has announced that applications for the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be available starting February 18, 2015. On June 15, 2012, the Obama Administration initially announced DACA as a program to benefit a group commonly referred to as the “DREAMERs” – children who were […]
Continue Reading Kolko & Associates, P.C., is pleased to announce that the Colorado GLBT Bar Association has named our Senior Associate Attorney, Bryon M. Large, as its President-Elect this month. He will serve this year as President-Elect, and will serve as President during the Association’s 2016 term. Bryon has been a strong advocate for GLBT-related issues in […]
Continue Reading Happy Cap Season! That’s right, Happy Cap Season! For some, these words mean absolutely nothing, but for thousands of employers and potential highly skilled, foreign national workers in the U.S. and around the world, Cap Season is full of hope, fraught with anxiety, and colored by extreme frustration with the current annual limits on H-1B […]
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