Conklin Immigration Law, LLC is a law firm founded and run by Lance Conklin that specializes in immigration legal services. Conklin Immigration Law engages in legal activism surrounding immigration, most notably through signing open letters that criticize the Trump administration’s investigations into private and corporate law firms. ^{1 2}

Conklin Immigration Law is also a coalition member of Evacuate Our Allies, a veteran-led coalition that seeks to help relocate Afghan refugees following the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. ³

Services

Conklin Immigration Law specializes in business immigration law and helps immigrants navigate the process of obtaining temporary non-immigrant visas. Conklin Immigration Law also assists immigrants through the process to obtain a green card, asylum procedures, naturalization, deportation proceedings, and humanitarian relief law. ^{4 5 6 7 8 9}

Memberships

Conklin Immigration Law is a coalition member of Evacuate Our Allies (EOA), a coalition of veterans’ groups, human rights organizations, religious groups, and refugee organizations advocating for the relocation and resettlement of as many at-risk Afghans to the United States as possible. ³

Conklin Immigration Law and its founder and practice lead, Lance Conklin, are also members of the national and Washington, D.C. chapters of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Christian Legal Society, and the Federal Bar Association. ⁴

Activism

Conklin Immigration Law has signed open letters to demonstrate its support for various legal issues related to immigration. In October 2023, Conklin Immigration Law signed a joint letter addressed to the Pakistani government asking it to halt the relocation of Afghan visa applicants fleeing persecution in Afghanistan. The letter argued that many relocated visa applicants are former interpreters, journalists, women’s rights activists, and others who face risks if returned to Afghanistan. ¹⁰

In August 2024, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Patterson, New Jersey filed a lawsuit against the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in pursuit of a reversal to the visa procedures for religious workers. After a 2023 change to the visa procedure, categories of applicants who were previously in a separate category, including minors from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, were added to the same queue as that of religious worker visas. Despite this addition of new applicants, Congress retained the cap of green cards to be issued per year, causing uncertainty and backlogs for foreign clergy in the United States. Lance Conklin (the founder of Conklin Immigration Law) commented on the lawsuit, arguing that the situation was “untenable” and harmful to clergy members. ¹¹

In March 2025, Conklin Immigration Law joined over 4,000 individuals and organizations by signing an open letter addressed to United States Attorney General Pam Bondi. The letter sought to address what its signatories claimed were attacks by the Trump administration on the legal profession, particularly related to the administration’s investigations into private and corporate law firms and their alleged political activism. ²

Leadership

Lance Conklin founded Conklin Immigration Law in 2014 and as of 2025 was practice lead there. He has been practicing immigration law for more than 25 years and was first admitted to practice in California in 1995. Before founding his practice, he worked for other law firms and World Relief, where he offered immigrant legal services to low-income clients. Conklin is an adjunct professor of law at Trinity Law School. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Davis; his Master of Divinity from Gateway Seminary; and his J.D. from California Western School of Law. ¹²

Conklin previously was pro bono chair for the Washington, D.C. chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) from 2016 to 2024, and as of 2025, he sat on AILA’s National Pro Bono Committee as well as on the Military Assistance Program Committee. He was also the associate director for Good Samaritan Advocates at City of Refuge, Baltimore. He previously sat on the Maryland Immigrant Rights Coalition board, holding the post of president from 2018 to 2021. ^{12 13 1}

1. “About.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://www.conklinimmigration.com/about
2. “Stand Up for the Legal Profession — and the Rule of Law.” Democracy Forward. March 23, 2025. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://democracyforward.org/action/open-letter-ag/
3. “Home.” Evacuate Our Allies. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://www.evacuateourallies.org/home
4. “Home.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://www.conklinimmigration.com/
5. “Business Immigration.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://www.conklinimmigration.com/business-immigration
6. “Family-Based Green Cards.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025.  https://www.conklinimmigration.com/family-based-green-cards
7. “Asylum – Affirmative/Defensive.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025.  https://www.conklinimmigration.com/asylum–affirmative/defensive
8. “Naturalization.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025.  https://www.conklinimmigration.com/asylum–affirmative/naturalization
9. “Humanitarian.” Conklin Immigration Law. Accessed April 7, 2025.  https://www.conklinimmigration.com/asylum–affirmative/humanitarian
10. “Joint Letter – Calling on Pakistan to Halt the Relocation of Afghan Visa Applicants.” Freedom House. October 17, 2023. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://freedomhouse.org/article/joint-letter-calling-pakistan-halt-relocation-afghan-visa-applicants
11. Schneid, Rebecca.“Why a Catholic Diocese in New Jersey Is Suing the U.S. Government.” TIME. August 31, 2024. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://time.com/7016559/why-catholic-diocese-in-new-jersey-is-suing-us-government/
12. “Lance Conklin.” Trinity Law School. Accessed April 7, 2025. https://www.tiu.edu/law/faculty/lance-conklin/
13. Dell’orto, Giovanna. “Thousands of faith leaders could be deported due to green card processing change.” NBC DFW. September 29, 2023. Accessed Aperil 7, 2025. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/thousands-of-faith-leaders-could-be-deported-due-to-green-card-processing-change/3349806/