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. We address how to screen your clients for the ―permanent bar‖ under INA § 212(a)(9)(C), and cover the procedures and timing for waivers submitted in Ciudad Juárez. In addition, we discuss a risk/benefit analysis for the decision on whether to go to Ciudad Juárez in the context that Congress is very unlikely to enact a legalization program in the next two years.
Presenters:
Erin Quinn, ILRC Staff Attorney
Tami Castillo, Of Counsel Attorney at Considine, Sorensen & Trujillo
Before Tami became an attorney, she worked at Considine, Sorensen & Trujillo for about 8 years, initially ,as a paralegal, mostly focused on preparing CDJ waiver cases. She attended law school at University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where she assisted at the Immigration Law Clinic while continuing my work here at the firm. Prior to coming to work in the immigration law, field she worked as a union organizer with H.E.R.E. (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees) International Union and later as a community organizer at farmworker and Hmong refugee housing complexes.
Erica Tomlinson, Partner at Immigration Law Offices of Mahoney & Tomlinson
Erica has practiced immigration law in the areas of family, employment, asylum, naturalization and removal since 1999. She serves as an AILA mentor on adjustment of status issues and is current a CLE coordinator for AILA NorCal. She is a contributing editor to ILRC’s Advocate’s Guide, and has volunteered and spoken at various Immigration Forums throughout Northern California sponsored by community groups, churches, and non-profit agencies and institutions, such as the Catholic Diocese, the University of California Davis School of Law, CRLAF, and the ILRC.
