Dree Collopy
Attorney
dcollopy@maggio-kattar.com
phone: 202.483.0053
fax: 202.483.6801
Dree Collopy represents clients in deportation and removal proceedings, asylum matters, waivers of inadmissibility, federal litigation, 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 gender-based grounds for asylum, including FGM and domestic violence issues, as well as Section 1447B petitions and mandamus claims in federal court. In addition, she has a background in successful motions to re-open removal proceedings and in the representation of detained clients facing removal proceedings.
Dree is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and serves as the Vice-Chair of the AILA DC Chapter Pro Bono Court Committee. She also serves on the Public Interest Advisory Board of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. Dree 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).
Prior to joining Maggio + Kattar, Dree clerked at the Headquarters Immigration Court in Falls Church, VA, and worked at Ayuda, Inc. in Washington, DC. Previously, she worked for the Department of Justice's Office of Immigration Litigation, and for Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA). Dree has a Juris Doctor and Certificate in Law and Public Policy from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. While at Catholic, Dree served as President of Students for Public Interest Law and an editor of The Catholic University Law Review. Dree has a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish from Grinnell College and she is fluent in Spanish.
Dree limits her practice to federal immigration matters. She is admitted to practice in the state of Maryland and before the United States District Court of Maryland and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
