17th Edition completely updated for 2010! The Advocates' Guide is a practical and essential tool for beginning immigration attorneys, immigration law firms employing paralegals, and non-profit community based organizations. The Guide is unique among immigration law manuals, because it is a comprehensive detailed overview of immigration law that is both practical and easy to use. Instead of merely containing articles on immigration law topics, the Guide is a how-to manual, containing clearly worded explanations of each subject and including sample applications, charts, and practical advice on working with your clients to elicit the information you need in order to assist them efficiently and accurately. It contains tips and practical suggestions on how to organize your files and prepare case filings in addition to warnings where appropriate to help you avoid the many potential pitfalls that can occur in the practice of immigration law.
The Guide covers the basics of immigration law: family visa petitions, relief from removal, political asylum, bonds and detention, grounds of deportability and inadmissibility, removal proceedings, and constitutional and statutory rights of immigrants. The Guide addresses the division of labor within the Department of Homeland Security, contains an expanded discussion of "U," "K" and "V" visas, information regarding recent changes to consular processing, and an explanation of the Child Status Protection Act. It also contains in-depth discussions on the LIFE Act, the Child Citizenship Act and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) self-petitioning provisions, hardship waivers, in addition to the latest information on affidavits of support, and critical new cases discussing grounds of inadmissibility and deportability, mandatory detention policies, and immigrant community organizing. You will also find a discussion of the PATRIOT Act and its effects on immigrant civil rights and detention policies, as well as chapters on research, motions and appeals. The Guide also provides an overview of 212(c) law as it applies to some cases as well as an update on the immigration consequences of crimes. It also contains a well-written, but less detailed, overview of business immigration.
The Advocates' Guide is 1600-plus pages long, and is the most practical guide for advocates to use in their everyday practice.
