Wilkens Law, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Wilkens Law, LLC is an immigration law firm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Immigration work is the whole of what the firm does. That single focus shows up across every page of its website.

The firm handles visa applications, green cards and permanent residence, waivers, consular processing, asylum, U visas and citizenship. It also takes family-based and employment-based visa matters. For people seeking naturalization, the firm handles the application through to the citizenship stage.

The client base reaches beyond one city. The firm works with immigration clients in the Colorado Springs, Castle Rock and Pueblo metro areas. It also takes on businesses and individuals located elsewhere.

Business immigration work

Employers make up a defined share of the firm's caseload. Wilkens Law handles H-1B visas, labor certifications (PERMs) and employment-based petitions. The petition categories it names are EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3.

Those three categories cover different ground. EB-1 covers workers with extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers and certain multinational executives. EB-2 and EB-3 turn on advanced degrees, exceptional ability and skilled or professional roles. PERM labor certification sits upstream of most EB-2 and EB-3 filings, so a firm handling both parts can carry an employer through the sequence without a handoff.

Why the pairing matters

H-1B work and PERM work often land on the same employer in the same year. A new hire arrives on an H-1B, and the employer starts the permanent residence process a year or two later. Wilkens Law lists both, which suits an employer that wants one office tracking the whole timeline.

Family and humanitarian matters

The individual side of the practice sits alongside the business side. The firm handles fiance(e) visas, immigrant visas and green card applications. Family-based petitions and employment-based petitions both appear in its list of services.

Asylum and U visa work also appear there. U visas apply to crime victims who help law enforcement, and asylum claims turn on persecution or a well-founded fear of it. Both demand careful evidence-gathering and a working knowledge of how the agencies weigh testimony. In my opinion, a firm that lists these next to routine visa filings is signalling a willingness to take harder files.

Waivers and consular processing round out the individual work. Waivers come up when an applicant faces a bar to admission and needs it forgiven. Consular processing applies when the applicant is abroad and the case runs through a US embassy or consulate.

The attorney behind the work

Jennifer Wilkens runs Wilkens Law. She has more than 24 years of experience in immigration law and joined Hurley Immigration in 2002. That start date lines up with the experience figure the site gives.

Her route into law began away from immigration. She worked as a legal assistant to a criminal defense attorney, then to a personal injury attorney, before moving into immigration practice. She is also a Navy veteran.

Education and memberships

Wilkens earned a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Colorado Technical University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She then earned her J.D. from the University of Denver. Both schools are in Colorado, and the practice she built stayed in the state.

She holds membership in the Colorado Bar Association, the El Paso County Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. AILA membership carries some weight in this field. It is the main national organization for immigration practitioners, and it runs the conferences and practice materials that keep attorneys current as policy shifts.

How the office handles clients

The firm says callers speak directly with an immigration attorney. For a one-attorney immigration practice, that claim is straightforward to keep. It also sets an expectation the firm can be measured against.

Wilkens Law offers free initial consultations and military discounts. It also makes evening and weekend appointments available. As a reviewer, I read the military discount as consistent with the office's location and with Wilkens's own service background. Colorado Springs hosts a large military population, and immigration questions come up often in military families through spouses and fiance(e)s from abroad.

What the record shows

The website gives a clear picture of scope. It names specific visa categories rather than gesturing at immigration law in general. Naming H-1B, PERM, EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 tells a prospective client exactly which filings the firm has handled.

Some details the site leaves out. It carries a copyright range of 2017 to 2026 but states no founding year. It gives no bar admission year for Wilkens. A prospective client who wants those dates would need to ask directly or check the Colorado attorney registry.

The evidence that is published holds together. The 24-year experience figure matches the 2002 start at Hurley Immigration. The named practice areas match the visa categories described in the body text. The memberships are checkable through the organizations themselves. In my opinion, that internal consistency counts for more than a longer page with less specificity.

Wilkens Law reads as a small immigration office with one experienced attorney handling both employer petitions and individual cases. The range of filings it names, from PERM labor certifications to asylum and U visas, covers most of what an immigration client in southern Colorado would bring through the door. Jennifer Wilkens has practiced in this field since 2002.