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Date Published: 01/23/2023
Special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS) provides a way for certain young people who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected by a parent to obtain immigration status. This practice advisory reviews the history of the federal regulations implementing the SIJS statute and then provides an overview...
Date Published: 01/23/2023
On December 19, 2022, USCIS published updates to its Policy Manual on how adjudicators should assess applications under the Public Charge ground of inadmissibility. This guidance accompanies the new final rule on Public Charge which took effect on December 23, 2023. The guidance is mostly positive...
Date Published: 01/20/2023
On December 9, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they will automatically extend the validity of Permanent Resident Cards—also known as green cards—for those who apply for naturalization on or after December 12, 2022. This FAQ covers what the changes mean, how...
Date Published: 02/01/2023
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center created the first comprehensive manual about parole in immigration law in 2016 to provide practitioners with a one-stop guide to the legal requirements of all the different types of parole, practice pointers about when and how to file for parole, and discussions...
Date Published: 01/17/2023
California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants: How to Use Criminal Courts to Erase the Immigration Consequences of Crimes guides advocates through how to use criminal courts to erase or mitigate the immigration consequences of convictions. This accessible resource provides beginner practitioners...
Date Published: 05/02/2023
In this webinar, we will discuss the distinction between motions to terminate, remand, reconsider and reopen. We will discuss which motion to file depending on the posture of your case in immigration court. We will take a deep dive into motions to reopen including how to make effective equitable...
Date Published: 03/02/2023
Level: All In this webinar, you will learn how to effectively vacate convictions in criminal court to meet the required Pickering standard of “legal invalidity”. We will discuss whether recent resentencing laws and vacaturs enacted for victims of human trafficking and domestic violence meet the...
Date Published: 03/30/2023
Cancellation of removal under the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”) is a generous though often overlooked form of relief for abused noncitizens faced with removal proceedings. VAWA cancellation often benefits abused spouses and sons and daughters even when VAWA self-petitioning and adjustment is...
Date Published: 01/06/2023
In recent years, California’s appellate courts have provided guidance on the state court’s role in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases. The following decisions clarify many of the common questions that these cases present in state courts, including one-parent SIJS, notice and service...
Date Published: 04/19/2023
**DATE CHANGE: THIS WEBINAR HAS BEEN MOVED TO APRIL 19, 2023** Level: Intermediate Naturalization for Persons with Disabilities: This webinar will cover the 2022 changes to the naturalization disability form N-648 and the USCIS Policy Manual. Speakers will describe the exemptions from the English...
Date Published: 05/17/2023
Level: Advanced beginner / Intermediate / Advanced In this webinar, we will explore the various ways a criminal incident can impact an application for non-LPR cancellation. We will look at the criminal conviction bars, good moral character, the stop-time rule, and discretion. This is an opportunity...
Date Published: 06/15/2023
Level: All Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Pereira v. Sessions in 2018, there has been a long line of caselaw about whether a Notice to Appear (NTA) missing the time, date or location of proceedings strips the immigration court of jurisdiction to hear a case, triggers the stop-time rule in...
Date Published: 06/06/2023
Level: All This webinar will discuss FOIA requests in immigration cases and provide tips for filing FOIA requests with DHS, including USCIS, OBIM, ICE and CBP. The webinar will cover comment exemptions and reasons for denials and the appeals process. In addition, speakers will discuss recent...
Date Published: 05/25/2023
Level: Intermediate For practitioners already familiar with the basics of family-based immigration, this webinar will focus on the adjustment of status process for individuals pursuing permanent resident status through a family member here in the United States, including various pathways to...
Date Published: 05/23/2023
Level: All In this webinar, we will discuss how asylum seekers, including recent entrants, can seek release from immigration custody via bond and parole. We will review eligibility for bond and parole for arriving aliens, and the implications of Matter of M-S-, 27 I&N 509 (AG 2019) on asylum...
Date Published: 05/10/2023
Level: Beginner This webinar will cover the unique nature of U nonimmigrant status, including the U petition, U waiver, the bona fide determination process, the U waitlist, and U adjustment of status. The presenters will discuss in detail the eligibility criteria for U nonimmigrant status, covering...
Date Published: 05/03/2023
Level: Beginner / Intermediate This webinar will cover withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). It will discuss the differences between asylum, statutory and CAT withholding of removal, and CAT deferral of removal and review the current case law and recent...
Date Published: 04/26/2023
Level: Advanced This advanced webinar will discuss the criteria for automatically deriving citizenship from a U.S. citizen parent under both the Child Citizenship Act as well as former INA 321. Using examples and the ILRC’s derivation chart, we will explain how to analyze the legal requirements in...
Date Published: 03/29/2023
Level: All In this webinar, we will discuss recent updates to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) practice and policies including the new TPS travel procedures.
Date Published: 03/22/2023
Level: Beginner / Intermediate In this webinar, attendees will receive a comprehensive, top-level review of how to analyze an immigration case when criminal history is present. We will provide a top-level overview of the grounds of inadmissibility, grounds of deportability, aggravated felonies,...
Date Published: 03/15/2023
Level: Intermediate This intermediate webinar will review the nuts & bolts of preparing and filing a family-based immigrant visa consular processing case, as well as cover third country processing, troubleshooting issues with communicating with the NVC and/or consular post, potential red flags...
Date Published: 03/14/2023
Level: Intermediate Eligibility for special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS) requires the involvement of a state juvenile court. This webinar will go over what needs to be included in a successful SIJS state court predicate order, looking at guidance contained in the USCIS Policy Manual and the new...
Date Published: 02/28/2023
Level: Beginner With the future of DACA in jeopardy and the uncertainty of TPS for certain countries, many community members who fear losing their employment authorization and those who never had a work permit need information and screening for other immigration options. This webinar will focus on...
Date Published: 03/28/2023
Level: All This webinar is intended for practitioners who want to learn about new developments in protections for immigrant workers, specifically deferred action granted by USCIS. We will discuss who might be eligible and best practices on screening clients to determine if they are involved in a...
Date Published: 02/02/2023
Level: All Following the December 23, 2022 effective date of the Biden administration’s new final rule on public charge, this webinar covers the new rule, new questions on public charge added to the I-485, updated Policy Manual guidance, and how to advise clients and their families on the use of...
Date Published: 02/01/2023
Level: All This webinar, geared toward practitioners and advocates, will focus on the recent changes to DACA, including a breakdown on the impact the rule and litigation has had to the access of DACA, an in-depth look at advance parole for DACA recipients, and updates on advocacy efforts, and how...
Date Published: 01/05/2023
Federal Rulemaking is one of the most direct ways that the public can participate and shape policies and practices of executive agencies. Federal regulations govern the executive agencies charged with enforcing the United States’ immigration laws and granting immigration benefits to eligible...
Date Published: 01/05/2023
Drug offenses cause the harshest, most disproportionate immigration penalties of any offense. Criminal defenders and immigration advocates need information to work aggressively to defend immigrant clients. This advisory provides strategies to avoid a drug conviction, including how and when to use...
Date Published: 01/04/2023
There have been many positive developments during the first two years of the Biden administration to undo previous efforts to transform the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) into an enforcement agency. However, there is still more work to do and many ways the Biden...
Date Published: 12/17/2021
Each year, the ILRC distributes thousands of copies of our 23 manuals and provides legal assistance on more than 8,000 issues to pro bono and nonprofit advocates, as well as public defenders, through our national Attorney of the Day service. In any given year, our staff attorneys conduct hundreds...