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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. In many cases vacating a criminal conviction is the only solution for a noncitizen with a criminal record. This year, California passed a new form of post-conviction relief designed especially to help immigrants. See new...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. The T Visa provides critical relief to victims of human trafficking and can be particularly helpful now for certain clients given the current U visa and SIJS backlogs. This webinar will provide an overview of the T Visa...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. Join nationally-recognized and widely published U Visa experts as they discuss the latest practice tips and process updates on assisting U nonimmigrant-eligible clients with applications, removal issues, and travel/...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. During this advanced webinar, we will review some of the more complicated issues that arise when handling acquisition and derivation of citizenship claims. Using examples and our easy-to-read charts, we will explain step...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. This webinar will explain DHS’s enforcement priorities in depth. We will discuss enforcement practices, risk assessment for clients, and arguments and strategies for advocates to obtain prosecutorial discretion for your...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. This webinar will focus on establishing a social group and proving nexus in asylum claims. We will highlight hot topics in social group analysis, including gang-based and gender-based asylum claims. This webinar presumes...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. For those of you already familiar with family basics, this webinar will focus on the adjustment of status process for those pursuing permanent resident status through a family petition and asylum here in the United...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. This webinar will review the role of parole in immigration law and its potential benefits. We will cover three main types of parole: advance parole, particularly in the context of TPS and DACA; humanitarian parole,...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. The categorical approach is the single most important tool for defending a noncitizen who has been convicted of a crime. This is especially true now that the Supreme Court has reaffirmed the strict, and beneficial...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. 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...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. Join nationally-recognized SIJS experts for a 90-minute webinar with the latest updates on special immigrant juvenile cases, including the adjudications of SIJS petitions, SIJS-based applications for adjustment of status...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. This advanced webinar will address how to identify criminal convictions that are relatively harmless to a naturalization applicant, as well as ones that may have the most severe consequences including denial of the...
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One paid registration per individual participant is required for all webinars. This webinar will cover the different types of background checks available for you and your client, including FOIA, FBI, state, and court-specific records requests. We will explain the types of records obtainable from...
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The expansion of DACA has not been implemented, but thousands of people continue to apply for the DACA program in its original form. Many applicants with complicated residence or some criminal history have successfully obtained DACA, and some have gone on to adjust status through other pathways...
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Are you new to immigration practice and want to be court-ready? Have you been representing people for years on affirmative cases, but afraid to appear in front of the immigration judge? Do you want a refresher on issues related to removal defense? This seminar offers an overview of removal...
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Course runs each Wednesday from 9/14 through 10/26, 4:00PM to 7:00PM. This seven-week training is intended for attorneys with some experience in, and would like to develop a more complete understanding of, immigration law. This seminar does not just provide a case-by-case review; we will delve into...
Date Published: 08/03/2016
Immigration was one of the leading issues in our country in 2015. Animosity toward immigrants grew last year, and with it the threat of deportation and anti-immigrant policies. Thanks to our partners, allies, and the community, 2015 was a year we celebrated wins in our fight to advance immigrant...
Date Published: 12/18/2015
In this issue: Immigrants Shape California Legislative Package; The other side of the immigration debate; Protecting Undocumented Youth in the Child Welfare System; ILRC Combats Unjust Immigration Enforcement
Date Published: 08/03/2016
In this issue: The ILRC Pushes Forward After a Disappointing Setback from the Supreme Court; 2016 Legislative Updates in California; New Americans Campaign Celebrates Fifth Anniversary with New Site; 2015 Annual Report
Date Published: 09/19/2019
This resource is a comprehensive client intake form meant to assist practitioners in screening for immigration relief options. Accompanying the intake form are notes to assist practitioners in spotting issues and relief options.
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This webinar will discuss current practice for filing waivers for clients with unlawful presence and the recently announced rule expanding eligibility for I-601A provisional waivers that will go in to effect on August 29. 2016.
Date Published: 12/09/2010
The DREAM Act is proposed federal legislation that would help thousands of hard-working students realize their dreams of legalizing their immigration status. Specifically, the DREAM Act would provide legal status and access to financial aid to those young people who have graduated from a high...
Date Published: 05/13/2011
Overview of the Anti-Fraud Campaign ILRC Announces Major Immigration Fraud Public Awareness Campaign. The ILRC has been a leader in the educational campaign to warn immigrants about immigration fraud. Too often, immigrants fall prey to scam artists that promise them an easy path to legal status...
Date Published: 07/29/2016
The Criminal Alien Program encompasses the many ways that ICE agents interact with the criminal justice system in order to find and arrest immigrants. This guide explains how CAP operations work, how they intersect with other programs, and what ICE’s presence in, and access to, local jails means...
Date Published: 07/29/2016
This updated memo explores recent case law on immigration detainers and how the 2015 detainer forms are still constitutionally deficient. Local jails who detain immigrants for ICE continue to risk liability for unlawful detentions.
Date Published: 02/13/2017
This brief fact sheet explains the federal statute of 8 USC § 1373 and its relation to policies limiting compliance with immigration detainers or other immigration enforcement assistance by local law enforcement agencies, also called “Sanctuary Policies.” These policies do not generally conflict...
Date Published: 11/13/2019
National Map of Local Entanglement with ICE The federal government has built its immigration enforcement regime to depend on the time and resources of local law enforcement. As a result, local agencies are shoring up some of the most highly-funded, destructive law enforcement programs in our nation...
Date Published: 06/27/2016
Completely updated in 2016. A Guide for Immigration Advocates is a practical and essential tool for beginning immigration attorneys, immigration law firms employing paralegals, BIA accredited representatives, and nonprofit community-based organizations. The Guide is unique among immigration law...
Date Published: 12/14/2015
Irma inmigró a los EEUU hace algunos años pero no tiene papeles. Alguien le dijo que debe solicitar el asilo. Irma no conoce el proceso y no sabe del plazo de un año o de los riesgos que puede correr. En la siguiente grabación, escucharemos sus conversaciones sobre estos temas con Jose, quien trabaja en el Centro de Recursos Legales para el Inmigrante, y con Celine, una abogada de inmigración del Centro de Servicios Legales de Pangea.
Date Published: 07/31/2015
En este podcast, abogada Grisel Ruiz habla sobre proposición 47 y los beneficios inmigratorios. Escucha para entender como proposición 47 podía ayudar en su caso de inmigración.