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This webinar will focus on developments in family-based immigration during the last couple of years. Topics discussed will include the new legal provisions regarding the death of a petitioner; the latest developments in consular processing in Ciudad Juárez; current guidance on health-related grounds of inadmissibility; DOMA and marriage-based petitions and other topics. We will also provide an overview of how the preference categories system works and how life events, such as marriage, divorce, birth, and death affect immigrant petitions and the decisions involved in immigrating family members.
Presenters:
Lourdes Martinez, ILRC Staff Attorney and co-author of ILRC's Families & Immigration manual
Before joining ILRC, Lourdes worked as an immigration attorney at the Tahirih Justice Center in the DC metropolitan area, where she represented immigrant women and girls survivors of gender-based violence on immigration matters. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Rice University and her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, where she was awarded the JB & Maurice Shapiro Public Service Fellowship for her dedication to public interest law. While in law school, she worked on international human rights litigation involving cases from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean both, with the International Human Rights Clinic at GWU and as a law clerk with the Center for Justice and International Law in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Sarah Kate Heilbrun, Law Office of Sarah Kate Heilbrun
Sarah Kate graduated from UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) in 2003. While in law school, she spent many hours working in the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, and as an attorney, her practice is devoted exclusively to immigration law, focusing on family-based immigration, removal defense, and immigration benefits for victims of crime and domestic violence. She has a solo practice in Oakland and is Of Counsel to the Law Office of Scott Mossman. She was the EOIR Co-Liaison for AILA NorCal from 2008-2009, and served as the Co-Program Director in 2006-2007. In 2009, Sarah Kate was a co-presenter for ILRC's Consular Processing and Waivers webinar.
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