Zachary R. New, Esq.

Zachary R. New is a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law. During his time at Colorado Law, Mr. New was one of the founding members and eventual President of the Immigration Law and Policy Society, through which he worked to bring immigration issues and advocacy opportunities to the newest generation of lawyers. He spent a year volunteering at the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), through which he frequently visited Denver’s local ICE detention center to assist detained individuals, and simultaneously worked out of Colorado Law’s Criminal/Immigration Defense legal clinic to give free representation to individuals in ICE custody.

Mr. New has worked on the representation of clients at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and various Federal courts, both at the district court and appellate levels.

Mr. New writes academically on changes in immigration law, and the effects of these changes on immigrants, and his works have been published in such law journals as the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Law Journal and the Yale Law Journal Forum. He enjoys speaking on broad policy issues related to immigration and advocating to bring lasting change to systemic problems in the immigration system. In his practice he especially enjoys working with individuals and employers to bring lawsuits in Federal Court over erroneous denials, delayed adjudications, and unlawful policies.

In his free time, Mr. New enjoys spending time with his family, going on long road trips with his wife, and volunteering at local animal rescues.

Bar Associations:

• Federal Bar Association
• Colorado Bar Association
• Denver Bar Association
• American Immigration Lawyers Association

Court Admissions:

• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• Colorado Supreme Court
• Executive Office for Immigration Review
• U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Professional Affiliations:

• Board Member, Federal Bar Assocation, Colorado Chapter
• President, Federal Bar Association, Colorado Chapter (2021-2022)
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Co-Chair, Citizenship Committee, American Immigration Lawyers Assocation, Colorado Chapter (2020-2021)
• Member, New Members Division Committee, American Immigration Lawyer’s Association, Colorado Chapter (2020-2021)
• Member, USCIS Liaison Committee, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Colorado Chapter (2020-2021)
• Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section, New Lawyer’s Division Committee
• Chair, New Members Division Committee, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Colorado Chapter

Honors & Awards:

• Rising Star Award, American Immigration Lawyers, Colorado Chapter (2022)
• Newer Lawyer of the Year Award, Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section (2022)
• Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Litigation in the Field of Immigration Law (IMMpact Litigation Team), American Immigration Lawyers Association (2022)

Blog Posts:

• USCIS Concludes FY2023 H-1B Selections
• USCIS Ombudsman’s Office 2022 Annual Report Issued
• For the First Time, Additional H-2B Visas Released for First Half of FY 2022
• A Step in the Right Direction for Deported Veterans
• DOL and DOJ Settle with Facebook Regarding Alleged Discrimination and Use of PERM
• USCIS’s Rush to Approve Green Cards by September 30
• USCIS to permit re-filing of certain rejected H-1B petitions for FY 2021
• USCIS to Return to Policy Granting Deference to Previous Adjudications
• H-1B FY 2022 Registration Set to Open March 9
• DHS Announces New Rule for H-1B Lottery
• A (close to) Final Accounting – Trump Administration Win Rate in Federal Court
• President-Elect Biden’s Immigration Wish List
• New Department of Labor Rules Set to Undercut Legal Immigration
• Celebrating the End of Citizenship Week 2020
• USCIS Conducts Second H-1B Lottery
• Status of Current Challenges to Presidential Proclamations
• New Ban on Non-Immigrant Visas to Impact H-1B, H-2B, J-1, and L-1 Visa Applicants
• A Decade of H-1B Precedent Overturned – the Power of Federal Litigation
• Record High H-1B Registrations for Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B Lottery
• Two Years Out, Data Shows New Department of Defense Policies’ Impact on Naturalization
• Supreme Court Stays Injunction on Public Charge
• New Rule Proposed to Further Restrict Asylum Eligibility
• DACA at the Supreme Court – The Last Stop Before Dreamers Leave Legal Limbo

Firm News:

• Zachary New’s essay featured in Yale Law Journal Forum

Publications:

• "Silence and the Second Wall," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 27, 2019
• “Ending Citizenship for Service in the Forever Wars,” Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 129, pp. 552, 2020
• “The Failures of Good Moral Character Determinations in Naturalization Proceedings,” University of Colorado Law Review, 93 U. Colo. L. Rev. 367 (2022).

Speaking Engagements:

• "The Administration of Immigration" C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, October 2019
• AILA University Roundtable, Litigating EAD Delays: Card Production and H-4 EAD Delays
• AILA Colorado New Members Division, Nuts and Bolts of Bringing an Administrative Procedure Act Lawsuit
• Re-Imagining Citizenship, Law and Society Association 2021 Annual Meeting
• “Introduction to H-2 Applications,” Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section, Newer Lawyers Division (2022)