As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we at Benach Collopy want to extend special thanks to the many people that have supported us this year as we got our law firm up
After years of statelessness, asylee and friend of Benach Collopy LLP, Sonya Kay (alias), kindly shares her thoughts and memories from her first time voting as a United States citizen:
We are starting a new series here at Benach Collopy to introduce our readers to some of our clients who have sought and obtained Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Jennifer Cook is one of the founding partners of Benach Collopy. In fact, the firm was nearly Benach, Ragland & Cook, but we decided that law firms these days
We prevailed in a long-fought case this week in the Arlington Immigration Court. The Immigration Judge granted our motion to terminate proceedings, agreeing that our client’s conviction in Virginia for
Since we wrote about the landmark victory for undocumented youth in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in Cuellar de Osorio, we have been inundated by the
Thirty four days before the Presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney has expressed a position on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has been in place since
Great news out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which ruled today that a Board of Immigration Appeals interpretation of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA),
This is the second in our series where we introduce you to the human beings who staff our office and work on cases. Today, we profile paralegal Liana Montecinos. Liana
Benach Collopy is starting a new series to introduce our friends to our staff. While lawyers claim all the glory and publicity, the reality is everything attorneys do is made
There is a lot in the news about unlawful voting these days. Many states have enacted laws that require specific forms of voter identification before one can step into a
As Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Litigation’s Immigration Litigation Committee, Dree Collopy recently collaborated with immigration attorneys from across the country to develop and conduct an
On June 15, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its intention to give deferred action and employment authorization documents (EADs) for a period of two years to certain
Yesterday, I had the privilege to speak to many DREAMers who came from all over the country to lobby Congress to pass the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform. And