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Date Published: 10/26/2023
This publication provides an overview of asylum law for advocates new to representing asylum clients, as well as seasoned practitioners needing a thorough review of current standards. Combining innovative legal arguments on currently developing issues and decades of expertise from accomplished...
Date Published: 08/16/2023
Facilitation is key for the functionality and progress of coalitions. This introductory training will show you model agendas, preparation tips, and exercises to practice basic facilitation skills. This training will also review the best practices to ensure that meeting participation is equitable...
Date Published: 07/26/2023
Meeting with elected officials can be intimidating, especially when we introduce issues that impact our immigrant community. This introductory training will walk you through how to request a meeting, and how to prepare for and hold a meeting with elected officials and their staff. Lastly, this...
Date Published: 09/21/2023
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Since the federal government has failed to provide immigration reform, often times the only way to prevail in immigration court is to vacate your client’s prior criminal conviction or sentence to avoid deportation or to render your client eligible for some type of...
Date Published: 10/17/2023
Level: Beginner / Intermediate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is an important form of humanitarian relief for people from certain designated countries that have experienced armed conflict, natural disaster, or other conditions that prevent nationals from returning safely. There has been a...
Date Published: 12/19/2023
Level: Intermediate This webinar will address some of the more challenging aspects of representing clients eligible for VAWA benefits, such as issues relating to the representation of VAWA applicants who do not identify as female, gathering evidence of emotional abuse, public benefits available to...
Date Published: 12/13/2023
Level: Intermediate / Advanced Currently, thirty-eight states permit medical use of marijuana; twenty-three of these states fully permit recreational use; and the District of Columbia permits both uses. Still, marijuana remains on federal drug schedules and is treated for immigration purposes like...
Date Published: 12/12/2023
Level: Intermediate This webinar will cover the latest developments in asylum law for practitioners who are already familiar with the fundamentals of asylum. The legal framework for asylum has been in a prolonged state of upheaval. The expiration of the Title 42 executive order in May 2023 was met...
Date Published: 12/06/2023
Level: Beginner / Intermediate Confused about the difference between the I-601 and I-601A, I-212 versus 212(h) waivers, or how exactly one may waive the permanent bar? This webinar will cover some of the most common waivers of inadmissibility including waivers of unlawful presence, fraud and...
Date Published: 11/16/2023
THIS WEBINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Level: Beginner This webinar is intended for practitioners who want to learn about new developments in USCIS deferred action for immigrant workers involved in labor disputes. We will discuss who might be eligible and best practices...
Date Published: 11/15/2023
Level: Beginner / Intermediate ILRC attorneys will describe how to file requests through the Freedom of Information Act process at USCIS, both online and with a G-639. The speakers will describe recent changes to FOIA processes and policies at all DHS components including CBP, OBIM, and ICE.
Date Published: 11/07/2023
Level: Beginner This webinar will provide an introduction to special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS) - a unique path to immigration status for young people under the age of 21. We will provide an overview of the legal requirements and process of seeking SIJS and SIJS-based adjustment of status,...
Date Published: 10/18/2023
Level: Intermediate This webinar will cover the different ways that U petitioners can include derivatives, including at the time of filing the principal application, after the principal application has been filed, and after the principal application has been approved. Using hypotheticals, the...
Date Published: 10/04/2023
Level: All We will review how the CSPA protects certain family-based beneficiaries of immigrant visa petitions and how to calculate the CSPA age. We will also review when the Visa Bulletin is involved, and when and how visa regression affects the CSPA age. Finally, we will touch on the rules...
Date Published: 09/27/2023
Level: Beginner This training will provide an overview of the legal elements for naturalization, including lawful admission as an LPR, continuous residence and physical presence requirements, the English/civics requirement, exceptions, and the disability waiver, as well as the requirements for the...
Date Published: 09/26/2023
Level: Intermediate This webinar will provide immigration practitioners with an overview of the current prosecutorial discretion landscape after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Texas , 599 U.S. ___(2023). We will discuss how DHS is applying its recently reinstated enforcement...
Date Published: 09/20/2023
Level: Beginner / Intermediate ILRC attorneys and guest speaker Bill Bliss will give an overview of the USCIS naturalization test redesign announced in December 2022. The redesign proposes a reading-based multiple-choice test to evaluate a naturalization applicant’s knowledge of civics, instead of...
Date Published: 08/09/2023
While public charge has been a part of our immigration laws for more than a hundred years, changes including actions taken by the Trump and Biden administrations brought renewed attention to public charge law. The Trump-era changes to public charge are no longer in effect, however immigrant...
Date Published: 06/21/2023
The U Visa: Obtaining Status for Immigrant Survivors of Crime will guide you through the entire process of handling an immigration case for a U visa petitioner—from eligibility screening for U nonimmigrant status, to communicating about the waitlist, bona fide determination, and deferred action, to...
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...