Kathleen Campbell Walker

Practice Areas

Kathleen Campbell Walker is co-chair of the Firm’s Immigration Practice Group. She has over thirty-seven 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 and member of the Board of Governors. Board certified by the State Bar of Texas in Immigration and Nationality Law. Recipient of AILA Founder’s Award for most substantial impact on field of immigration law or policy. Testified before Congress on immigration policy and law as well as border security.

Professional Memberships

AILA, International Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Health Law Association, State Bar of Texas, and El Paso Bar Association. Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Publications

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; Contributing Author, AILA’s USMCA Toolbox (2022). Author, “"Immigration Healthcare Cures for Physicians - A Quixotic Venture? " Healthcare Michigan (August 2022). Immigration Insights and Issues, Dickinson Wright Pllc – Author: 2023: Form I-9 remote flexibility ends July 31, 2023 – 5 things to keep in mind; The no brainer immigration prediction for 2023: Homeric backlogs and delays – 10 notes to self for surviving; 2022: "Form I-9 Update – L and E Nonimmigrant Spouses Eligible for Work Without Employment Authorization Document – Really?,"; Form I-9 alert – USCIS designates I-94s with new admission codes for E and L spouses as list C documents… What?; 2021: "U.S. Land Border Reopens to Non-Essential Vaccinated Travelers November 8,"; "COVID-19 Vaccinations Lead to November 8 Reopening of U.S. to Foreign Travelers and Land Border Restriction Modifications”; Co-Author, “Department of State Extends NIE Validity Providing Relief for Travelers”; “A Call for Rational Immigration Reforms to Address Critical Healthcare Shortages,” Healthcare Michigan, July 2021; “USCIS June Policy Alert Trio Provides Some Love to Beleaguered Applicants”; “President Proclamation 10052 Times Out: Now What for Nonimmigrant Visa Applicants?”

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