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Families & Immigration: A Practical Guide is an essential tool for practitioners who assist in all aspects of family-sponsored immigration. This resource is designed for everyday practice by new and seasoned immigration attorneys, immigration paralegals, community-based organizations, and family immigration advocates.

During this webinar, we provided an update on public charge policies after the new inadmissibility rule from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took effect and the new inadmissibility rule from Department of State was implemented. We discussed the various policies impacting immigrants and their families’ access to health care and other programs and took a closer look at the new DHS and DOS rules and who they affect. This webinar was designed for those conducting outreach and providing information to immigrants in a non-legal capacity.

Bewildered by the many policy changes and litigation efforts surrounding public charge? Unsure if you’re prepared to counsel and advise clients on how public charge could impact their ability to get a family-based green card or visa to enter the United States? Join us as we discuss the challenges our immigrant clients are currently facing around public benefits and immigration status, and strategies to help clients overcome public charge concerns at various administrative agencies. This webinar will review the latest developments in public charge policy and regulations under the Trump administration. We will cover the public charge grounds of inadmissibility and deportability in detail, offering tools to evaluate your clients’ cases and prepare strong cases on their behalf.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, with shelter-in-place orders and social distancing protocols, it has become more difficult to reach the immigrant community to share information about immigration policies and access to resources. At the same time, given the economic devastation of COVID-19 for many immigrant families, it has never been more important to talk about what supportive services immigrants can obtain and how accessing services may or may not impact immigration legal opportunities in the United States.

LPRs are often worried about how public charge might impact them or their family members. Importantly, there is no public charge test to naturalize. Nonetheless, LPRs seek guidance about travel, petitioning family members, and possible grounds for deportation. Log in to this webinar to give the best advice to LPRs around these critical questions. This webinar will assume basic knowledge of the public charge rule.

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state, and local governments are creating relief programs to provide services and resources to community members facing health and financial challenges. However, due in part to the overlapping timeline of coronavirus and the implementation of new public charge rules, many immigrant community members are fearful of utilizing available relief programs. In this 60-minute webinar, we will provide a brief overview of public charge, share policy updates on public charge topics, and discuss various emerging public charge issues related to COVID-19. The webinar will provide an overview of various relief programs, explain how use of those programs could trigger public charge consequences, and discuss how to distinguish benefits programs that immigrants might access because of financial hardship stemming from COVID-19 from COVID-19 emergency programs insofar as public charge ramifications. Note: this will be a California-focused webinar.

“Public charge” is a ground of inadmissibility that could bar an individual’s admission to the United States on a visa or application for lawful permanent residence if the government determines the individual is likely to rely on certain public benefits in the future.

President-Elect Biden has identified reversing the new public charge rule as a priority in his first 100 days in office. This webinar will provide an update on the current status of changes to public charge, including pending legal challenges, public charge adjudication across agencies, and the next administration's plans with regards to the new public charge inadmissibility rule. The webinar assumes some knowledge of inadmissibility and background on public charge.

This webinar will review public charge law and policy in effect at the time of this webinar as well as current affidavit of support requirements and process such as who is required to submit Form I-864, who is exempt and how to indicate this, various ways to meet the financial requirements, and how the affidavit of support relates to the public charge inadmissibility determination.

In this webinar, we will provide updates about Public Charge law and policy. We will consider the current state of law, what policies are in effect and what it means for those filing applications to obtain status. We will cover any recent developments and practice tips for those in the field. This webinar assumes a basic knowledge of the public charge inadmissibility.

Join us for a discussion of recent adjudication trends and policy changes in immigrant visa consular processing cases pertaining to public charge and other hot topics.

Families & Immigration: A Practical Guide is an essential tool for practitioners who assist in all aspects of family-sponsored immigration. This resource is designed for everyday practice by new and seasoned immigration attorneys, immigration paralegals, community-based organizations, and family immigration advocates.

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Level: IntermediateThis webinar will discuss FOIA requests in immigration cases and provide tips for filing FOIA requests with DHS, including USCIS, OBIM, ICE and CBP. Researching clients’ case histories may become particularly important if any of the proposed legalization bills are enacted.