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Immigrant Youth
Crimes
Date and Time:
11/08/2022 11:00am to 12:30pm PST
Recorded Date:
11/08/2022
Place:
Online
Registration Deadline:
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 - 11:00am
Presenter:
Kathy Brady
Andrew Craycroft
MCLE:
1.5 CA & TX
Recording, $125.00
Level: Intermediate
As a result of the visa backlog for young people from certain countries adjusting status based on special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS), more young people are adjusting status as adults, sometimes with delinquency adjudications or adult criminal convictions. This webinar will review the eligibility requirements for SIJS-based adjustment of status under INA § 245(h). We will discuss the immigration consequences of delinquency and crimes and review which grounds of inadmissibility can be waived, as well as strategies to avoid non-waivable grounds. 

Presenters

Kathy Brady

Kathy Brady is a Staff Attorney based in San Francisco. She has worked with the ILRC since 1987. Along with expertise in family immigration, immigrant children and youth, and removal defense, she is a national expert on the intersection of immigration and criminal law. She is a frequent speaker and consultant, and has co-authored several manuals including Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (ILRC), California Criminal Defense of Immigrants (CEB), the chapter on representing immigrants in California Criminal Law – Procedure and Practice (CEB), and Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts (ILRC). She helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy served as a Commissioner to the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. In 2007 she received the Carol King award of advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Before working at the ILRC Kathy was in private practice in immigration law with Park & Associates in San Francisco.

Kathy attended Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley School of Law, and has taught immigration law as an adjunct professor. She is a member of the California Bar and is conversant in Spanish.

Andrew Craycroft

Andrew joined the ILRC in May 2019 as a Staff Attorney focusing on immigrant youth issues. Prior to joining the ILRC, he worked at Staten Island Legal Services representing clients in a variety of affirmative and defensive immigration matters. Previously, Andrew worked at the Unaccompanied Minors Program of Catholic Charities Community Services in New York, representing detained and released unaccompanied minors in removal defense.

Andrew received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he participated in the Center for Applied Legal Studies Clinic. Andrew earned his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Andrew is admitted to the bar in New Jersey and New York. He is fluent in French and Spanish with some knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic.