Are you a lawyer who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the IMMIGRATION COURT practices and procedures? This seminar will teach you the nuts and bolts of representing persons in removal proceedings and provide you with the skills to present a successful case before the Immigration Court.
Topics covered include:
● Chronology of removal proceedings: Master calendar and individual hearings
● How to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), including challenges to proper service
● Things you need to know if the person is detained, including bond pre-NTA and post-NTA filing
● Documents necessary for different kinds of cases
● Voluntary Departure, why and when you should ask for it
● Automatic withdrawal of voluntary departure on appeal & necessary advisals
● How to prepare your client for an Individual Hearing
● Other relevant issues including fingerprinting, local operating rules and how to find them, how to read court files and
documents, and filing applications with the Service Centers in the context of removal proceedings
Presenters:
Angie Junck, ILRC Staff Attorney
Angie works on the relationship between immigration and criminal law and is a co-author of ILRC's publication, Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit: The Impact of Crimes under California and Other State Laws. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the ILRC's Defending Immigrants Project to assist public defenders and the Immigrant Justice Network, a project to build a movement to shift public perception of immigrants in the criminal justice system. Angie is a co-chair of the Detention Watch Network's Public Awareness Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.
Raha Jorjani is a Staff Attorney and Lecturer in the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic. Raha has defended immigrants from detention and deportation before the Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Courts including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Raha focuses primarily on the intersection between Immigration and Criminal Law. In addition to representing immigrants detained primarily on the basis of criminal convictions, she regularly advises and trains public defenders on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Raha also provides technical assistance and training to members of the immigration bar on topics related to detention and deportation. Prior to joining the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic in Fall 2007, she was a Staff Attorney with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona. Since October 2009, she has served as In-House Immigration Counsel to the Alameda County Public Defender Office, a cutting-edge defender model that is one of the few of its kind being implemented in California.
Sue Griffin, Catholic Charities Esperanza Project
Erin Quinn, ILRC Staff Attorney
