Mr. Matthew L. Kolken
Kolken & Kolken
135 Delaware Avenue
Suite 101
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 854-1541
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 received the highest AV peer rating by Martindale-Hubbell, has been named a "Super Lawyer" in Upstate New York by Super Lawyers magazine, and was also recognized by Business First of Buffalo as being voted by his peers as being among the “Legal Elite of Western New York."
Mr. Kolken has appeared on CNN American Morning, been quoted in Forbes Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Fox News Latino, and NBC Latino among others. He has been an invited speaker at AILA's annual conference on grounds of removability, is the author of the Deportation and Removal Blog on ILW.com, is a member of the advisory board of the Immigration Daily, an online immigration news periodical with more than 35,000 readers, and he is a prominent immigration reform activist listed as one of the top-ten most influential people on Twitter in the area of Immigration Law.
1997
Law School
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Bar Admissions
- New York
Types of Cases Handled
- Asylum & Protection
- Business & Employment
- Consular Processing
- Deferred Action (DACA and DAPA)
- Deportation - Removal
- Employer Sanctions
- Family
- General
- Health Care Related Professionals
- Investor
- Litigation
- Naturalization
- Students and Exchange Visitors
- Waivers
