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FOIA Requests and Other Background Checks: A Practical Guide to Filing Records Requests in Immigration Cases provides practitioners with a one-stop guide for information about why, when, where, and how to file background checks in immigration cases. This guide describes the various federal agencies and components that generally hold immigration records, explains how to request records and appeal denials or incomplete responses, and provides tips for certain circumstances, such as representing minors or immigrants in removal proceedings.

This webinar is geared toward those with previous exposure to Non-LPR Cancellation of Removal cases, and who would like to delve into specific challenges. In this webinar, we will spend most of our time focusing on the bars to eligibility for Non-LPR Cancellation, such as crime bars and the stop-time rule, and we will discuss practice tips for meeting the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard.

One thing that is abundantly clear—immigrants need representation in immigration court. Most immigrants face removal proceedings without an attorney or authorized representative, and the outcomes with and without a representative are grossly disparate. With this publication, we hope to build the capacity of immigration practitioners to assist individuals in immigration court proceedings to provide more immigrants with a meaningful chance at justice.

This webinar is geared toward those who are new (or newer) to presenting cases to the immigration judge at the “merits” or “individual” hearing, which is like the trial in a removal case. Through the lens of a non-LPR cancellation case, this webinar will focus on how to present your client’s application for relief to the immigration judge. We will discuss building your case through witnesses, written evidence, and the theory of the case, among other topics. Advocates will leave with the tools to comprehensively present their clients’ cases to the judge.

Lawful permanent resident cancellation of removal ("LPR cancellation") is a vital from of relief for LPRs in removal proceedings, particularly for those in removal proceedings due to past criminal convictions. In this webinar, we will discuss the eligibility requirements for LPR cancellation, recent court decisions affecting eligibility, and practical guidance and strategies for building and presenting an effective cancellation case in immigration court. 

This webinar will review the legal requirements and practical steps for seeking SIJS-based adjustment of status before EOIR. The presenters will assume prior familiarity with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

This webinar will discuss hot topics in removal defense, including recent EOIR policy guidance, regulations, and AG and court decisions. We will provide an overview of recent developments with a focus on what has changed in the new administration and how it may affect your removal defense practice.

Join our webinar about the new immigration enforcement priorities, to learn messaging and framing to approach these priorities in an individual case, and learn some organizing and advocacy tips to elevate individual cases to members of congress and DHS Headquarters. Advocacy and public pressure to stop someone’s deportation is not a new strategy in the immigrant rights movement. During the Obama administration advocates and organizers experienced success when promoting an individual case publicly, and received many favorable decisions from DHS.  The enforcement priorities and discretion memo from the Biden administration presents a new avenue to fight deportations and build our movement.

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Level: Intermediate - Immigration and Criminal Defense CounselThe 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 culminating in U.S. v. Mathis (2016), it took a sharp step backward in Pereida v. Wilkinson (2021). In this interactive webinar, experts will take participants step-by-step through how to use the approach to protect clients in immigration and criminal proceedings, and how to avoid or limit the effect of Pereida.PresentersKathy BradyKathy Brady is a Staff Attorney based in San Francisco. She has worked with the ILRC since 1987. Along with expertise in family immigration, immigrant children and youth, and removal defense, she is a national expert on the intersection of immigration and criminal law. She is a frequent speaker and consultant, and has co-authored several manuals including Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (ILRC), California Criminal Defense of Immigrants (CEB), the chapter on representing immigrants in California Criminal Law – Procedure and Practice (CEB), and Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts (ILRC). She helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy served as a Commissioner to the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. In 2007 she received the Carol King award of advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Level: BeginnerThis 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 reinstatement of removal, including practice tips.PresentersErin Quinn, Senior Staff Attorney - ILRCErin Quinn is an attorney based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on building capacity of organizations and practitioners to assist immigrants. She conducts trainings on immigration law throughout the United States and provides legal expertise through the ILRC’s Attorney of the Day program. Erin has contributed to numerous ILRC publications as author or editor, including Removal Defense: Defending Immigrants in Immigration Court; Essentials of Asylum and many others. In addition, Erin works on issues related to immigration status and healthcare as well as consumer protection. She has published articles with LexisNexis Emerging Issues and American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Level: IntermediateThis 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, unlawful presence and more.

Level: Intermediate / AdvancedThe 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 to post-conviction relief.PresentersRose Cahn, Senior Staff Attorney - ILRCRose Cahn is a nationally recognized expert in the field of immigrant post-conviction relief and oversees the ILRC’s pro bono Immigrant Post-Conviction Relief Project.  With over 15 years of experience working in the field of immigrant rights, and a special focus on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, Rose is a frequent speaker and trainer on the subject.  Rose has co-authored several manuals including, California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (Tooby) and Helping Immigrant Clients with Proposition 47 and Other Post-Conviction Legal Options: A Guide for Legal Service Providers (Californians for Safety and Justice).  Rose spearheads federal, state, and local advocacy to help advance the rights of immigrants with criminal convictions and assist providers in understanding how to better serve this population.  She is one of the principle drafters of California Penal Code § 1473.7, a landmark piece of legislation that created a legal mechanism to vacate unconstitutional convictions. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the National Clean Slate Clearinghouse and is on the Steering Committee of the American Immigrant Representation Project.

Level: IntermediateThis 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 provide practice tips for meeting the stringent hardship standard.Presenters

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.

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 examples, charts, and practical suggestions, this guide is a go-to resource to assess whether your client is subject to the grounds of inadmissibility or deportability. This manual covers all common grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and features a chapter dedicated to explaining how to assess criminal issues and the grounds of removability.

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 various stages of the immigration custody process. This manual includes a discussion of how adults and youth end up in immigration detention, including the rights and recourse detained individuals have notwithstanding their confinement. This resource also provides detailed information on best practices, procedures, and strategies for securing the release of clients in custody determinations before Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and custody redetermination hearings (bond hearings) before the immigration judge, as well as appellate strategy thereafter. 

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A Guide for Immigration Advocates is a practical and essential tool for beginning immigration attorneys, immigration law firms employing paralegals, DOJ accredited representatives, and nonprofit community-based organizations. The Guide is unique among immigration law manuals because it provides a comprehensive detailed overview of the law that is both practical and easy to use. More than a compilation of immigration law topic articles, it’s a how-to manual containing clearly worded explanations of each subject and includes sample applications, charts, and examples to illustrate the concepts. This invaluable resource also provides practical advice on working with your clients to elicit the information you need to assist them efficiently and accurately.