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How long may a lawful permanent resident remain outside of the United States without jeopardizing his or her right to return? Stated another way, under what circumstances will an absence amount to abandonment of permanent resident status? If you have not been asked that question yet, be prepared, because the answer will surely try your talent to put a complex issue into an answer most reasonably intelligent people can understand.
This webinar covers various topics of good moral character. We discuss discretionary and statutory bars to proving good moral character and the balance test that CIS must employ when deciding if an applicant who is not statutorily ineligible has good moral character.
During this webinar, we go step-by-step through the consular processing practice of helping U nonimmigrants travel into the United States with a U visa.
This webinar focuses on cutting-edge issues related to U visa cases, including updates on age out issues, adjustment adjudication, processing of cases with approved I-929, and updates and best practices emerging from the field.
During this webinar, we cover the complex issues involving citizenship for children. We review acquisition and derivation of citizenship, as well as INA§322 citizenship for children.
Marriage: A lawful path to permanent residence or a fraudulent arrangement meant only to skirt the law? Does the couple have a good faith intent to create a lasting relationship as marital partners? Or, will they go their separate ways once the immigrant spouse gets a green card?
This webinar covers the latest developments for representing clients in VAWA self-petitioning, VAWA adjustment of status, or VAWA cancellation cases as well as motions to reopen based on VAWA-eligibility.
This webinar discusses preparing and submitting Requests for Prosecutorial Discretion, including administrative closure, as well as requests for Deferred Action. It focuses on DHS policy guidelines and practice in screening cases and adjudicating requests since the announcement of the new DHS policy announced in August, 2011. The webinar also provide tips on how to base requests for prosecutorial discretion and how to utilize the two memos of June 17, 2011 by ICE Director John Morton on the same subject.
In the second webinar, we cover the foreign relative’s immigration application, including: adjustment of status under sections 245(a) and 245(i) of the INA; consular processing; the affidavit of support and the grounds of inadmissibility. There is approximately 30 minutes allocated to answer questions throughout the presentation.
In the first webinar, we cover the family visa petition, including: what relatives qualify for family immigration, including LGBT couples; the Child Status Protection Act; options upon the death of a qualifying relative; how preference categories and priority dates work and filing procedures.
This webinar focuses specifically on enhancing your understanding of how to prepare a winning waiver application in the context of consular processing, especially at Ciudad Juárez.
This webinar will cover suggestions for immigration attorneys to protect clients' information from unnecessary disclosure, regardless of whether or not a subpoena is issued, strategies for counseling the client; and communicating with the district attorney. We will also discuss how immigration attorneys can respond if a subpoena is issued including filing motions to quash and other strategies.
In this webinar, we explore how the different standards of hardship in immigration law have been applied by the DHS, the BIA, and the courts, with particular emphasis on looking at the differences and similarities between "extreme hardship" and "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship."
This webinar discusses how to use key defense strategies that are based on the “categorical approach,” an area of law that includes use of the record of conviction, divisible statutes, the “missing element” rule, and other topics.
This webinar explores the “particular social group” (PSG) ground for asylum by providing an overview of case law and an indepth discussion on how to identify and articulate a social group that will pass legal muster.
Using a hypothetical child's case, this webinar covers immigration relief specific to children, as well as how to pursue more general forms of immigration relief in a child-centered way.
This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the requirements and process for applying for adjustment of status on behalf of a VAWA self-petitioner.
This webinar focuses on the different types of motions typically filed before the immigration courts and the BIA and describes when and under what circumstances each type of motion should be filed, as well as the strategies, advantages and disadvantages of different types of motions.
This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of VAWA self-petitioning, as well as the requirements and process for submitting a VAWA self-petition.
