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Camila joined Elkind Alterman Harston in October 2011, after completing a two year clerkship with the Denver Immigration Court, through the DOJ Attorney General's Honors Program. Prior to working at the Immigration Court, Camila was a staff attorney at The Door's Legal Services Center in New York City, where she represented immigrant youth before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Office for Immigration Review, as well as in New York State family courts.
She conducted trainings on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and provided mentorship to attorneys representing immigrant youth throughout New York State. She further facilitated access to education and health care for undocumented youth in the city. Camila earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 2007, where she completed externships with the employment unit at Greater Boston Legal Services, with the Immigrant Defense Project in New York City, and with the U.S. District Court for the Federal District of Puerto Rico. Before entering law school, Camila taught high school Spanish in Washington, DC, was as an immigration paralegal at Ayuda, Inc. and worked on refugee resettlement issues for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in San Jose, Costa Rica. Camila received her bachelor's degree from Middlebury College in 1998 and is fluent in Spanish. She is admitted to the New York Bar and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Camila currently chairs the AILA-EOIR Liaison Committee and is an active mentor to Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network's pro bono counsel.
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Acquired: 2019
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State: New York
Acquired: 2008
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1600 Stout Street, Suite 700, Denver, CO, 80202-5964
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Posted by Oleksii | February 22, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Immigration
We are so grateful!
I have received my green card last week! We have tried working with different attorneys but Camila was the only one who delivered! My case was very complicated and require lots of going back-and-forth with the immigration and even got the governors and senators offices involved and during all this t...
Posted by Carlos and Jim | December 29, 2014 | Immigration
BEST AND MOST GRACEFUL IMMIGRATION LAWYER IN DENVER!
I was referred to Camila Palmer by a friend who’s also a Lawyer and I couldn’t be happier. Camila is an outstanding and experienced immigration Lawyer. My case (bi-national same sex couple) was pretty straight forward with a few bumps along the way. From the time of the initial consultation to th...
Posted by Marilou | December 18, 2014 | Immigration
My VAWA application
I let them process my VAWA for green card application started April this year-2014 and i got my green card December 2014. Salute and more power.
Posted by Caleb | October 02, 2014 | Immigration
In my opinion the best inmigration lawyer
I really recommend Camila Palmer as a great lawyer , actually one of the best I actually had a difficult inmigration case and several years working with different Lawyers and she was the best and the only one who finally helped me with my case She is a great lawyer , trustful person, really hone...
Posted by Richard | March 04, 2014 | Immigration
Outstanding Immigration Attorney
Camila is an outstanding immigration attorney. She was very knowledgeable and able to answer any questions I had with both the legal definition and (more importantly) other examples and experiences she was able to draw from. She was always highly responsive and on top of everything in my case, and wh...
"Camila is smart, passionate and dedicated to her clients. She never hesitates to take on tough or new issues, I strongly endorse this attorney."
"Camila Palmer is one of the sharpest young minds in the immigration community. Intelligent, resourceful, and honest Camila can often find solutions lesser attorneys miss."
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2019
Best Lawyer, Immigration, Best Lawyers in America
2018 - Present
Partner, Elkind Alterman Harston, PC
2011 - Present
Attorney, Elkind Alterman Harston, PC
2009 - 2011
Attorney Advisor, Immigration Court, Denver
2007 - 2009
Staff Attorney, The Door
2014 - Present
Colorado Bar Association
2011 - Present
American Immigration Lawyers Association
2007
JD - Juris Doctor
1998
BA - Bachelor of Arts
2018
Navigating Immigration Issues in Civil Workplace Rights Litigation
2018
Asylum Law
2016
Affirmative and Defensive Asylum Filing Procedures, Navigating the Asylum and Work Authorization "Clocks," and Best Practices for Dealing with the One-Year Deadline
2016
Crimmigration – The Cateogrical Analysis, Crafting a Safe Plea, and Undoing an Unsafe Plea
2016
Tricky Asylum Issues: Backlogs, Ethics, and the Filing Deadline
2015
Deferred Action
2015
Spanish
English