Fernando Colón

Fernando Colón has spent his entire professional career in immigration and teaching. He is currently a professor of law at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law and the Director of the Institute for International and Immigration Law. Prior to that, he was the Clinic Director for the Immigration Clinic at Harvard Law School. He served as the director of Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development in Michigan, the Minnesota Legal Service Corporation, and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund in Chicago.

Areas of Practice

• Immigration law
• Employment, family-based permanent residence and immigrant visa consular processing
• PERM labor certification
• Complex naturalization and citizenship
  

Professional Activities

• Active member of AILA

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• Minnesota (inactive)
• Illinois (inactive)

Education

• L.L.M. degree, Harvard Law School
• Master's degree, Harvard
• J.D. degree, University of Minnesota
• Bachelor's degree, St. John's University