Sipho Dlamini
Staff attorney, removal defense and asylum
Sipho represents people in immigration court and at asylum interviews, and takes the clinic's detention calls.
Sipho prepares bond hearings, asylum applications and appeals. When a family calls about someone who has been detained, he is usually the first lawyer to call back.
He works in English and isiZulu, and with the clinic's interpreters for Spanish and other languages.
Cases taken
- Bond hearings
- Asylum and protection
- Appeals
Credentials of Sipho Dlamini
Bar admissions
Colorado
2016
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
2017
Courts
Denver Immigration Court
Aurora Immigration Court
Board of Immigration Appeals
Education
J.D., University of Colorado Law School
2015
B.A., University of Northern Colorado
Languages
English
isiZulu
Spanish
Works with the clinic's interpreters
In court and out of it
The first thing I tell a client is what I do not know. Immigration court is unpredictable, and families decide better when nobody has promised them the ending.
I came to this work through a friend's asylum case, and I have not left it since.