Paul L. Zulkie

Founder & Managing Principal

About Paul

Paul is the Founder and Managing Principal of Zulkie Partners LLC. With over 40 years of immigration law experience, Paul has become a leader of the profession. From 2004 to 2005, Paul served as the President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a national bar association of 18,000 lawyers and law professors dedicated to immigration and nationality law, which is headquartered in Washington DC. As President of AILA, Paul championed the launch of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, which provides pro bono legal and social services to unaccompanied minor children as they navigate through US immigration courts.

In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Paul served on a small AILA task force that was asked by members of Congress to draft provisions that allowed the immediate relatives of foreign national victims to remain in the US. Many of these provisions were later enacted as part of the Patriot Act.

Paul has testified before the US Congress on immigration issues and his expertise has been called upon by several leading news organizations. Paul has appeared on the CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR and has been interviewed by several national media publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, and the Chicago Tribune.

From 2005 to 2020, Paul served as the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Immigration Council, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy. In 2024, Paul was honored to receive the Council’s first annual Founders Award in recognition of his leadership in the field.

Paul authored Immigration Compliance in Employment and Business, published by Callaghan & Co, and he was featured in the 2018 Business Edition of Leading Lawyers Magazine (“Promoting a Global View of Immigration Law).