District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) since 1997. Mr. Kolken was recently named a "Super Lawyer" in Upstate New York by Super Lawyers magazine, and was also recognized by Business First of Buffalo as being voted by his peers to the 2013 “Legal Elite of Western New York."