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Date Published: 03/20/2025
Level: All This webinar will provide important updates on various aspects of TPS practice. First, it will provide a snapshot of current TPS designations and what TPS holders can expect under the new federal administration. Next, it will highlight trends in TPS adjudications as well as strategic...
Date Published: 03/18/2025
Level: Beginner / Intermediate ILRC attorneys will describe how to file requests and administrative appeals through the Freedom of Information Act process at USCIS, both online and with a G-639. The speakers will describe changes to FOIA processes and policies at DHS components including CBP, OBIM...
Date Published: 03/13/2025
Level: Intermediate This webinar will discuss recent changes to removal defense law and practice. Two months into the new presidential administration, we will provide updates on the most relevant changes to removal defense stemming from executive orders, agency decisions, regulation changes, and...
Date Published: 03/12/2025
Level: All From Trump 1.0 to Biden-Harris to Trump 2.0, public charge policy has shifted significantly, causing confusion among legal practitioners and community members alike. Whether you’ve been following along or lost track of the status of public charge in immigration law, join us for an update...
Date Published: 03/06/2025
Level: Intermediate California voters passed Proposition 36 in November 2024. Prop 36, plus some similar laws passed by the legislature, now make it possible for prosecutors to charge misdemeanor drug possession and some misdemeanor property offenses (e.g., petty theft) as felonies if the person...
Date Published: 03/04/2025
Level: All Correctly understanding criminal histories and court records is crucial to representing immigrants. This webinar will be a practical exercise in how to review a client's criminal “rap” sheets and court records. We will look at rap sheets from the FBI and California Department of Justice...
Date Published: 01/16/2025
Are you an advocate wanting to train others on their rights when they encounter ICE? Are you a community member wanting to know what your rights are and how you can assert them in different settings? In this webinar we will first provide a Know Your Rights (KYR) overview, covering the rights that...
Date Published: 01/16/2025
¿Es usted un defensor comunitario que desea capacitar a otros sobre sus derechos durante un encuentro con ICE? ¿Es usted un miembro de la comunidad y desea saber cuáles son sus derechos y cómo hacerlos valer en diferentes entornos? En este seminario web, primero brindaremos un resumen de Conozca...
Date Published: 01/16/2025
Are you an advocate wanting to train others on their rights when they encounter ICE? Are you a community member wanting to know what your rights are and how you can assert them in different settings? In this webinar we will first provide a Know Your Rights (KYR) overview, covering the rights that...
Date Published: 01/06/2025
This entirely new publication is focused exclusively on waivers of inadmissibility that require a showing of hardship. It is designed to be your general “go-to” waivers book for these common waiver applications involving hardship and a companion for general hardship waivers practice for Forms I-601...
Date Published: 12/16/2024
Detention & Bond: Defending Noncitizens in Immigration Custody will guide advocates through practical and technical considerations when representing detained noncitizen clients. This comprehensive guide provides a top to bottom overview of strategies when advocating for release throughout the...
Date Published: 10/03/2024
In this webinar, which builds on "Disrupting the Jail-to-Deportation Pipeline: Local Campaigns," you will learn how advocates and systems-impacted leaders in California have disrupted the jail-to-deportation pipeline in their communities through advocating for and defending their local sanctuary...
Date Published: 10/29/2024
The updated edition of FOIA Requests and Other Background Checks describes the various federal agencies and components that generally hold immigration records, explains how to request records and appeal denials or incomplete responses, and provides tips for certain circumstances, such as...
Date Published: 09/16/2024
In this webinar, we will cover the basics regarding immigration enforcement in California. Designed for those new to the fight against ICE, we will provide an overview of how ICE identifies, detains, and deports noncitizens, as well as an overview of existing state laws which limit law enforcement’...
Date Published: 07/31/2024
Level: All In this webinar, the ILRC is partnering with Cornell Law School’s Path2Papers, Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and The Dream.US to provide an overview and update on the Biden administration's recent changes to streamline nonimmigrant visa policies for DACA beneficiaries and...
Date Published: 08/01/2024
Every criminal defense lawyer who represents a non-U.S. citizen defendant has a specific legal duty to provide accurate advice about the immigration consequences of a plea. Cal. Penal Code § 1016.3(a). This training provides an overview of how to meet your legal and ethical duties for noncitizen...
Date Published: 12/11/2024
Level: Intermediate This webinar will provide an overview of the latest developments in asylum law and policies for practitioners who are already familiar with the fundamentals of asylum. The current legal framework of immigration law and policy continues to impede meaningful access to our asylum...
Date Published: 12/05/2024
Level: All "When can I get a work permit? Can I include my child who lives abroad in my asylum application? Can I include my partner? What happens after I am granted asylum?” In this webinar, we will discuss employment authorization eligibility, including the 180-day clock. We will also provide an...
Date Published: 11/20/2024
Level: Intermediate In order to be eligible for U nonimmigrant status, the petitioner has to show that they are a victim of a “qualifying criminal activity.” This webinar will cover what a “qualifying criminal activity” is and how these offenses match up with common experiences of survivors of...
Date Published: 11/14/2024
Level: All As of July 29, 2024, a new EOIR regulation governs how removal cases are processed in the immigration courts and at the BIA. The new rules codify administrative closure and case termination, restore important protections in motions to reopen and appeals, and address the impact of Matter...
Date Published: 10/31/2024
Level: All On April 1, 2024, USCIS released a new version of the Form N-400 Application for Naturalization. During this webinar, ILRC attorneys will provide an overview of how to complete the form, highlight changes from the previous form, and review “red flag” questions that require special...
Date Published: 10/22/2024
Level: All Who meets the threshold requirement of having been “inspected and admitted or paroled” for adjustment of status under INA 245(a)? Are there other avenues to adjust status if someone last entered without inspection? This webinar will focus on the adjustment of status process for...
Date Published: 10/17/2024
Level: All "Alien smuggling" can affect an immigrant in several different ways: it is a ground of inadmissibility, a ground of deportability, and a bar to good moral character. Screening for alien smuggling is important for clients in various steps in the immigration process - from consular...
Date Published: 10/16/2024
Level: Beginner This training will give an overview of T visa relief and cover the latest updates, including the April 2024 rule, which represents the most significant overhaul of T visa regulations since 2016. It is intended for practitioners who may be familiar with other humanitarian forms of...
Date Published: 10/16/2024
Level: Beginner This training will give an overview of T visa relief and cover the latest updates, including the April 2024 rule, which represents the most significant overhaul of T visa regulations since 2016. It is intended for practitioners who may be familiar with other humanitarian forms of...
Date Published: 10/10/2024
Level: Beginner The Immigration and Nationality Act states that any noncitizen in the United States may apply for asylum. However, the statute contains several bars to receiving asylum, including the one-year bar, the firm-resettlement bar, and the particularly serious crime bar. The bars can apply...
Date Published: 10/03/2024
Level: Intermediate In this webinar, we will review the eligibility requirements and process for special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS)-based adjustment of status. We will unpack how to determine if your client has a visa available to adjust status and review the special rules around...
Date Published: 09/24/2024
Level: All Trainers will describe the current standards of eligibility for a full fee waiver (I-912) of certain immigration benefits, as well as the reduced fee for certain applicants for naturalization. Fee exemptions now apply to many categories of humanitarian benefits, and these do not require...
Date Published: 09/12/2024
Level: All The parole authority is broad, and the government has exercised this parole power in different ways to address different groups of people—allowing some entry, some return, and some simply to remain in the United States. In this webinar, we will survey special parole programs and explore...