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Date Published: 03/29/2022
This advisory gives an overview of the SIJS-based adjustment of status process. It will give step-by-step guidance for both the affirmative process, for young people who are not in removal proceedings, and for the defensive process, for young people who are in removal proceedings before the...
Date Published: 02/11/2022
This practice advisory contains numerous practical examples to assist in understanding how to recapture and retain priority dates in the family immigration context. It includes discussions and examples of how this concept intersects with other provisions of law, such as the Child Status Protection...
Date Published: 01/24/2022
What are ICE detainers, how do they affect a criminal case, and how can counsel get rid of them? This advisory walks through all the legal and practices issues around ICE detainers, including the role of ICE in issuing them and the role of local or state jailors in responding. We discuss the...
Date Published: 05/17/2022
Level: All Despite the constraints of the INA, DHS has considerable discretion to limit or redirect its enforcement and removal efforts. Last fall, DHS issued new policies to guide the use of this discretion. This webinar will review the current DHS enforcement policies and how to apply them;...
Date Published: 04/28/2022
Level: All This webinar will provide an introduction to the legal requirements and bases for motions to reopen in front of the immigration judge or the BIA. We will discuss filing motions to reopen in absentia orders, motions based on asylum eligibility and motions based on ineffective assistance...
Date Published: 04/12/2022
Level: Beginner This webinar is geared to those new to bond practice and provides an introductory review of representing clients in bond proceedings. We will discuss how to find your client in immigration detention, a review of legal eligibility for bond, tips in preparing a bond request and...
Date Published: 04/06/2022
Level: All New countries have been designated for TPS under the Biden administration and many current TPS designations are being reauthorized. This webinar will provide an introduction to completing an initial TPS application for those new to TPS or those looking for a refresher. The webinar will...
Date Published: 03/15/2022
Level: Intermediate / Advanced Some immigration penalties are based on the length of a criminal sentence, whether that is an imposed sentence, time actually served, or a potential sentence. In recent years there has been extensive litigation and also state legislation to address issues caused by...
Date Published: 01/10/2022
Detention & Bond: Defending Noncitizens in Immigration Custody will guide advocates through practical and technical considerations when representing detained noncitizen clients. This comprehensive guide provides a top to bottom overview of strategies when advocating for release throughout the...
Date Published: 12/17/2021
This practice advisory provides an overview of TPS and focuses on a framework for analysis for the firm resettlement bar to eligibility. It also discusses the impact of dual nationality on TPS applicants.
Date Published: 12/14/2021
This Chart summarizes the criminal record bars to many forms of relief, to provide a quick way to check whether your client is potentially eligible for relief. See also ILRC, Immigration Relief Toolkit (2018).
Practice Advisory for Immigration Advocates: The Biden Administration’s Final Enforcement Priorities
Date Published: 05/04/2022
DHS issued new enforcement and prosecutorial discretion guidance on September 30, 2021. This practice advisory from the ILRC, NIPNLG, and IDP provides immigration practitioners with an overview of the enforcement priorities and other key policy changes described in recent DHS and ICE memos, and...
Date Published: 12/01/2021
DHS issued new enforcement and prosecutorial discretion guidance on September 30, 2021. This practice advisory from the ILRC, NIPNLG, and IDP provides criminal defense practitioners with an overview of the enforcement priorities and other key policy changes described in recent DHS and ICE memos,...
Date Published: 10/05/2021
With a few exceptions, immigration authorities must use the “categorical approach” to determine whether a criminal conviction triggers a ground of removal. Expert use of the categorical approach may be the most important defense strategy available to immigrants charged with or convicted of crimes...
Date Published: 09/23/2021
There have been many recent developments regarding the litigation challenges to the Department of Homeland Security enforcement priorities. This brief guide provides a quick summary to help you keep up. In short, the Enforcement Priorities are currently still in effect, although a change could come...
Date Published: 09/07/2021
Inadmissibility & Deportability is a practical and easy-to-use manual for beginning immigration attorneys, paralegals, nonprofit community-based organizations, and other advocates on the grounds of inadmissibility, deportability, and waivers. Written in plain English and filled with explanatory...
Date Published: 12/15/2021
Level: Intermediate This 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.
Date Published: 12/07/2021
Level: Intermediate This webinar will cover the requirements for obtaining non-LPR cancellation of removal, focusing on how to meet the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard. Using examples, this webinar will discuss common types of hardship presented in non-LPR cancellation cases and...
Date Published: 12/02/2021
Level: Intermediate / Advanced The field of post-conviction relief is constantly changing. Tune in to hear about newly enacted state laws, new case developments, and new advice for immigrant post-conviction relief practitioners. This webinar will be geared to people who already have some exposure...
Date Published: 11/11/2021
Level: Intermediate This webinar will explore some of the most common non-crime grounds of inadmissibility. We will review when inadmissibility matters, common pitfalls and the legal elements of important inadmissibility grounds, such as willful misrepresentation, false claims to citizenship,...
Date Published: 10/27/2021
Level: Beginner This webinar will help advocates understand expedited removal and reinstatement of removal, including how to help clients who have been subjected to such summary removal procedures. We will cover how advocates may be able to move to reopen orders of expedited removal and...
Date Published: 10/19/2021
Level: Intermediate - Immigration and Criminal Defense Counsel The categorical approach is perhaps the single most important tool for defending a noncitizen who has been charged with or convicted of a crime. But while the Supreme Court clarified and strengthened this defense in decisions...
Date Published: 10/06/2021
Level: All Levels Frustrated that your case is stuck? Has your client been waiting too long for a decision from USCIS? This webinar is a primer on taking cases to district court to challenge agency action or inaction. We will cover the basics of filing mandamus and related claims. Don’t have the...
Date Published: 09/15/2021
Level: Beginner This webinar will provide immigration practitioners with an introduction to and overview of BIA appeals. We will cover the nuts and bolts of filing appeals, discuss motions to remand and motions to reconsider, and provide practice tips. Presenters Erin Quinn - Senior Staff Attorney...
Date Published: 07/21/2021
The Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (LRIF) created a limited-term program allowing many Liberians living in the United States to apply for permanent residence. Initially, LRIF’s application period opened on December 20, 2019 and was set to expire on December 20, 2020. On January 3, 2021,...
Date Published: 06/21/2021
ICE enforcement priorities have changed under the Biden administration , signaling a return to the use of prosecutorial discretion. On May 27, 2021, the ICE Principal Legal Advisor issued guidance for OPLA attorneys about how and when to exercise prosecutorial discretion during various stages of...
Date Published: 06/18/2021
On January 1, 2021, multiple California criminal reform laws took effect. These laws were passed to help all defendants regardless of immigration status, but they can be of special help to noncitizens. Advocates should understand how these laws may help a client’s immigration case. They include: A...
Date Published: 05/21/2021
The majority of states have legalized some use of marijuana, but marijuana remains a federal Schedule I controlled substance. Therefore, any conduct involving marijuana can be very dangerous for immigrants – including conduct that is permitted under state law. Admitting that one has “legally” used...
Date Published: 05/12/2021
The Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness (LRIF) Strategy Group submitted these comments in connection with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Request for Public Input published in the Federal Register on April 19, 2021. The Strategy Group is a focused coalition of local, state...
Date Published: 04/14/2021
In Pereida v. Wilkinson, 141 S.Ct. 754 (March 4, 2021), the Supreme Court issued another opinion on the categorical approach, which is the analysis authorities use to decide whether a criminal conviction triggers removal grounds. Pereida focuses on the “modified” categorical approach, which is how...