Kathleen Campbell Walker

Practice Areas

Kathleen Campbell Walker is chair of the Firm’s Immigration Practice Group. She has over forty years of experience in complex business immigration solutions and strategies as well as in compliance planning and audits for multinational corporations and businesses. Her broad practice expertise includes worksite compliance, cross-border immigration, healthcare, manufacturing, academia, start-ups, family, naturalization, consular processing, admissions, waivers, security checks, and frequent traveler programs.

Career

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) – Former National President and General Counsel. Emeritus member of the Board of Governors. Recipient of AILA Founder’s Award given from time to time to the person or entity who has had the most substantial impact on field of immigration law or policy. Recipient of Annual AILA Service Excellence Award. Chaired the AILA national Department of State liaison committee, Customs and Border Protection liaison committee, Verification and Documentation liaison committee, and the Interagency committee.

Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Immigration and Nationality Law.

Testified before several times Congress and the Texas legislature on immigration policy and law as well as border security.

Served on the Council of Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy.

Vice-Chair of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Former Chair of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce and the El Paso Foreign Trade Association.

Admitted before the Texas Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Frequent speaker on immigration and nationality law at international, national, and state levels.

Professional Memberships

AILA, International Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Health Law Association, State Bar of Texas, and El Paso Bar Association.

Publications

Contributing author 2024 - AILA Waivers Online Course; Contributing author 2022 – AILA’s USMCA Toolbox; Author, “Canadian B Visitors to the U.S.: What Does Registration Mean for You?” Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, March 2025; Author, “Planning for Travel Ban 2025 – Leaked Draft includes 43 countries,” Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, March 2025; Author, “April 11, 2025 Registration Rule Enhanced: Foreign Nationals – Carry your Papers!” Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, March 2025; Author, “Immigration Compliance for Employers in 2025: Guide to Worksite Audits,” Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, January 2025; Author, “Walking While Foreign: Documenting Immigration Status in 2025,” Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, January 2025; Author, "November 1 Deadline Looms as Texas Hospitals Struggle to Track Costs Related to Immigration Status,” Dickinson Wright Immigration Insights and Issues Blog, November 2024;

Co-Author, "Texas Challenges Biden Administration’s Minimum Staffing Mandate in Court" Dickinson Wright Health Law Blog, September 2024; also published in Healthcare News and Healthcare Michigan; Co-Author, "Stay Extended by Texas Court to Sept. 23 for Approval of Keeping Families Together Parole," Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, September 2024; Co-Author, "Parole in Place for U.S. Citizens' Spouses: What (Little) We Know Before August 19 Start,” Dickinson Wright Immigration Blog, August 2024; Author, "Healthcare in Crisis: Exploring Immigration as a Vital Solution for the U.S.," Dickinson Wright Health Law Blog, July 2024; also published in Healthcare News and Healthcare Michigan; Author, "A State-Based Cure – Interested Government Agency J-1 Waivers for Physicians,” Dickinson Wright Health Law Blog, January 2024; Author, “Trade Nafta (TN) Visa Holders Are NOT Free Agents – Spotting the Unauthorized Nonimmigrant for Form I-9 Compliance,” Dickinson Wright Immigration Insights & Issues Blog, December 2023; Author, "Form I-9 Remote Flexibility Ends July 31, 2023 – 5 Things to Keep in Mind,” Immigration Insights and Issues Blog, February 2023; Author, “"Immigration Healthcare Cures for Physicians - A Quixotic Venture? " Healthcare Michigan (August 2022). Immigration Insights and Issues, Dickinson Wright PLLC

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