Dree Collopy
Senior Attorney
dcollopy@maggio-kattar.com
phone: 202.483.0053
fax: 202.483.6801
Dree Collopy represents clients in deportation and removal proceedings, asylum matters, federal court litigation including appeals and mandamus actions, waivers of inadmissibility, and complex adjustment of status and naturalization matters. She also has experience in employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters. Dree has subject matter expertise in asylum, as well as waivers of inadmissibility. In addition, she has a background in successful motions to reopen removal proceedings and appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Dree is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She serves as the Vice-Chair of the AILA DC Chapter Pro Bono Committee, and also serves on the AILA National Board of Publications Committee. Dree is a member of the Public Interest Advisory Board of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and the American Bar Association's Immigration Litigation Committee where she is the co-chair of the Pro Bono Committee. She volunteers for Doorways for Women and Families and for the Maryland Immigrant Rights Coalition. She has been published in the area of asylum law, including: "Incorporating a Hardship Factor in Asylum Claims Based on Female Genital Mutilation: A Legislative Solution to Protect the Best Interests of Children" (Spring 2007, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal) and "Lost In Translation: Why Professional Interpreters are Critical to the Fairness of Asylum Interviews"(May/June 2008, AILA's Immigration Law Today). Her article, “The Plight of the Crewman: The Need for an Immediate Relative Exception to the Prohibition on Adjustment of Status and Strategies for Representing Alleged Crewmen Under Current Law” was also published in West’s Immigration Briefings (No. 10-06, June 2010).
Dree has a Juris Doctor and Certificate in Law and Public Policy from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish from Grinnell College. She is fluent in Spanish.
Dree limits her practice to federal immigration matters, and has been admitted to the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia bars. She is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
