Matthew Kolodziej

About Matthew Kolodziej

An immigration attorney based in New York and a partner at Jia Law Group, Matthew Kolodziej has more than ten years of experience assisting individuals and companies to successfully obtain visas. He specializes in the investor visa category (EB-5 and E-2), inter-company transferees (L visas), and skilled worker category (TN, E-3, and H-1B visas), and also has expertise in PERM labor certification, extraordinary ability, outstanding research, and various other employment and family-based temporary and permanent visas. His diverse spectrum of clients ranges from media organizations, to leading technology companies, to non-profits with international employee mobility requirements.

Having Form I-924 filing experience, along with submission of Forms I-526, I-485, DS-230/260, and I-829, Attorney Kolodziej has expertise in representing both regional centers and individual EB-5 investors from start to finish of the immigration process. His legal experience also includes litigating before immigration courts and agencies, and the federal courts of appeals. He previously worked at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart. Prior to that, Attorney Kolodziej served as a legislative fellow in Washington, D.C., for the American Immigration Lawyers Association; he was responsible for analyzing the legal and policy aspects of legislation for immigration reform, and he also lobbied before Congress on behalf of U.S. industries and immigrants.

Attorney Kolodziej is oft-quoted in media publications on the EB-5 immigrant visa program and other immigration issues. His publications include a review of the history and benefits of the EB-5 visa program entitled, The U.S. Immigrant Investor Program: New American Investors Making a Difference in the Economy, published by the American Immigration Council. He is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Attorney Kolodziej earned his bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, his master’s degree from the University of Madrid, and his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the state of New York and before the 4th Circuit of the Court of Appeals. Attorney Kolodziej is fluent in English, Spanish and French.