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Date Published: 05/19/2015
This guide explains when DACA recipients may be eligible to apply to travel outside the United States, and what risks are involved, and how to prepare.
Date Published: 05/19/2015
This new resource provides step by step instructions on how to notify USCIS that your address has changed. This is important so that receipt notices, reminders, and other documents are sent to the correct address. (English and Spanish)
Date Published: 09/30/2019
This guide outlines steps DACA renewal applicants can take if their renewal is delayed.
Date Published: 08/04/2015
This document describes how a person with DACA who travels outside the U.S. with Advance Parole may be able to apply for a green card in the U.S. based on an immediate relative visa petition.
Date Published: 08/14/2015
This document describes how what steps a DACA recipient who travels on advance parole must take to ensure that they are able to successfully renew their DACA.
Date Published: 05/17/2016
This advisory explains how some DACA recipients may be eligible to adjust their status to permanent residents after travellng outside the United States on advance parole. We explain what is required for advance parole, what is required for adjustment of status, and how those two are related for...
Date Published: 04/12/2013
Outlines all of the benefits that come with obtaining DACA approval. Special thanks to our Spring 2013 law students, Andrew Briggs and Maria Dominguez, for their efforts in helping to create this resource.
Date Published: 10/26/2012
In addition to a number of other requirements, to qualify for deferred action a person must not be convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or multiple misdemeanors, and not pose a threat to public safety or national security.
Date Published: 10/26/2012
In addition to a number of other requirements, to qualify for deferred action a person must not be convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or multiple misdemeanors, and not pose a threat to public safety or national security.
Date Published: 10/26/2012
This advisory for criminal defense counsel outlines defense strategies to preserve a client’s possible eligibility for deferred action.
Date Published: 05/15/2012
This page from DOS provides information on how to apply for a U nonimmigrant visa, the required documents and fees, visa ineligibility and more. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/other-visa-categories/visas-for-victims-of-criminal-activity.html
Date Published: 05/25/2012
These notes were taken at the May 18-19, 2012 conference and contain lots of important practice questions, updates and filing tips for U visa cases.
Date Published: 03/19/2014
Immigration Center for Women and Children (ICWC) administers a database of information sourced from more than 700 advocates nationwide with helpful information about law enforcement agencies who certify victim helpfulness for U cases and consulates abroad who issue U visas. The database includes...
Date Published: 02/03/2016
SB 674 is a new California law that took effect on January 1, 2016. The goal of this law is to ensure that all immigrant crime victims in California have equal access to immigration status through the U visa.
Date Published: 01/24/2022
This page offers resources on “crim/imm,” the law governing the intersection of immigration and crimes, especially as it applies to California law. This page includes the Public-Facing California Chart , Analysis: Selected Defenses to Selected California Crimes , as well as a series of short...
Date Published: 11/19/2010
This guide is designed to walk you through the document-gathering requirements under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and its more recent revisions and updates. Though not a comprehensive explanation of the law or its requirements, it is instead a user-friendly resource to gathering the...
Date Published: 05/02/2012
On August 30, 2011, USCIS issued a policy memorandum on eligibility to self-petition as a battered or abused parent of a U.S. citizen.
Date Published: 01/12/2016
In this podcast, Zan Stine talks with ILRC attorney Lena Graber about what is happening in immigration enforcement, specifically around the new policy developments on how local law enforcement agencies work with ICE.