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Date Published: 10/27/2015
This webinar will discuss current practice for filing waivers for clients with unlawful presence. This webinar will provide an overview of the grounds of inadmissibility for unlawful presence and the available waivers.
Date Published: 10/20/2015
This webinar will review the waivers in immigration law that requires the applicant to prove hardship. We will cover hardship waivers for inadmissibility for fraud or misrepresentations, certain criminal offenses, unlawful presence, and the hardship waiver to remove conditions on residence.
Date Published: 10/07/2015
Join co-authors of The U Visa, Jessica Farb, Sally Kinoshita, and Catherine Seitz, for the latest information on U nonimmigrant adjustment of status, petitioning family members of U nonimmigrants through the I-929 petition process, travel and consular processing, and parole options.
Date Published: 09/29/2015
During this advanced webinar, we will review some of the more complicated issues that arise when handling acquisition and derivation of citizenship, as well as INA § 322 citizenship for children. Using examples and the ILRC’s easy to read charts, we will walk through some difficult issues in determining eligibility for citizenship for children, including custody definitions and residence/physical presence requirements.
Date Published: 09/29/2015
This webinar will provide an introduction to seeking SIJS findings in child custody proceedings in family court, with a focus on California law. It will also cover frequently asked questions regarding jurisdiction, service abroad, and procedural issues.
Date Published: 09/24/2015
This engaging webinar will cover the basic requirements for naturalization. It is an introductory webinar designed for people entering the field of naturalization and those who need a basic review.
Date Published: 09/17/2015
For those already familiar with family basics, this webinar will focus on the adjustment of status process for individuals pursuing permanent resident status through a family petition here in the United States.
Date Published: 05/06/2015
In this webinar, ILRC attorneys will dig deeper into ICE’s new enforcement priorities and how those affect a DACA or DAPA case. What are the risks of applying and how can people who don’t qualify still seek prosecutorial discretion? The webinar will briefly review eligibility and the criminal bars to DACA and DAPA, but focus on how the enforcement priorities affect immigration practice more broadly. Topics include comparisons of DACA and DAPA bars, confidentiality of DACA and DAPA applications, and strategies in removal proceedings.
Date Published: 03/26/2015
This interactive webinar is for immigration advocates, criminal defense counsel, and clean slate/re-entry workers.In 2014 California passed two new laws that can help immigrants who are accused or convicted of crimes. California voters passed Proposition 47, which turns some felonies and wobblers into misdemeanors, and can be used to fix prior felony convictions. The legislature created Penal Code § 18.5, which makes the maximum possible sentence for a misdemeanor 364 days instead of 365.
Date Published: 06/02/2015
This webinar will highlight special considerations in LGBTQ immigration. We will focus on topics such as marriage-based petitions involving same-sex binational couples; asylum and related protections when persecution was based on gender identity or sexual orientation, and other benefits such as U and T visas.
Date Published: 05/12/2015
Trying to figure out when your client is eligible for work authorization? Join us for an in-depth discussion of employment authorization and the asylum “clock”. The asylum clock calculates a mandatory 180-day waiting period before an asylum applicant can receive work authorization.
Date Published: 05/05/2015
The range of legal defenses for children in removal proceedings has dramatically expanded due to government mistreatment such as improper service of papers, keeping kids in painfully cold rooms, and not advising children of their rights
Date Published: 04/28/2015
Join us for a 90-minute webinar with the latest practice tips and process updates on assisting clients with U nonimmigrant status, U adjustment or U visa travel cases.
Date Published: 04/23/2015
During this webinar, we will cover the complex issues involving citizenship for children. We will review acquisition and derivation of citizenship, as well as INA § 322 citizenship for children.
Date Published: 04/21/2015
Are you an advocate who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the Immigration Court practices and procedures?
Date Published: 04/16/2015
An absence from the U.S. can affect one’s ability to naturalize in a myriad of ways. During this webinar, we will discuss the different ways in which an absence from the U.S. can affect a client’s naturalization application, including the effect upon his or her continuous residence, physical presence, abandonment of residence, and removability.
Date Published: 04/14/2015
The criminal bars for DACA and DAPA are similar, but not the same. This webinar will break down and compare the various criminal bars to each program, highlight new information and remaining questions, and discuss strategies and risk-assessment in difficult cases.
Date Published: 04/09/2015
This webinar will review the waivers in immigration law that require the applicant to prove hardship. We will cover the hardship waivers of inadmissibility for fraud or misrepresentations, certain criminal offenses, and unlawful presence, and the hardship waiver to remove conditions on residence.
Date Published: 03/05/2015
This webinar will review the role of parole in immigration law, including the possible benefits of receiving parole. We will cover three main types of parole: advance parole, particularly in the context of TPS and DACA; humanitarian parole, especially with regards to its emerging use for children of U and VAWA derivatives; and parole in place, including how it was recently expanded by the administration.
Date Published: 02/25/2015
This webinar will walk participants through the ins and outs of marriage-based immigration. We will explore the law around the concept of a bona fide marriage and examine issues such as prior marriages, proxy marriages, polygamy, and bigamy.
Date Published: 02/24/2015
This webinar will address advanced issues in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases, such as one-parent cases, challenges in probate court, continuing juvenile court jurisdiction and common inadmissibility issues.
Date Published: 02/10/2015
This webinar is an advanced training for practitioners familiar with asylum. The webinar will take participants through the process of preparing and presenting an asylum claim on behalf of an unaccompanied immigrant child (UAC).
Date Published: 12/11/2014
The eligibility requirements for DAPA are fairly straightforward -- except for persons with a criminal record.
Date Published: 12/09/2014
This webinar will cover the basic components and procedure of a Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) case, with particular focus on obtaining the state court order necessary to apply for SIJS with the federal government. The application for a Special Immigrant Juvenile Visa (Form I-360) and for Adjustment of Status to a Lawful Permanent Resident (Form I-485) will also be covered. The webinar will share strategies for successfully submitting the I-360 application to U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, and discuss common admissibility issues that arise in SIJS cases.
Date Published: 12/04/2014
This webinar will discuss these changes and the implications for immigration practitioners, including how they may affect mandatory detention and motions in immigration court.
Date Published: 11/25/2014
All hope is not lost when the USCIS or the immigration judge deny your client’s asylum claim. This webinar will give practitioners tips for keeping an asylum claim alive when presented with some of the toughest bars, such as the one-year deadline or the particular serious crime bar.
Date Published: 11/19/2014
This webinar will review the forms of immigration relief including waivers of inadmissibility that require the applicant to prove hardship. We will cover non-LPR cancellation of removal, the waivers for misrepresentations, crimes, and unlawful presence. We will focus on the common hardship factors and how to craft a winning hardship case.
Date Published: 11/12/2014
This webinar will discuss current practice for filing waivers for clients with unlawful presence. Aside from an overview of how to present a case based on hardship, we will cover the I-601A process, including latest policy developments focused on adjudicating cases with crimes and standardizing the hardship assessment.
Date Published: 10/30/2014
In this webinar we will take the categorical approach and attempt to break it down from the basic, reliable defense tools to the more advanced questions.
Date Published: 10/16/2014
We will review the new 21 page naturalization form (N-400) and how to complete it. We will focus on the new questions on the form, why they have been added, and how they relate to an applicant’s eligibility for naturalization.