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Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts, Updated July 2010 (PDF, 2010) This is a national benchbook for juvenile and family court judges on various immigration related issues including: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, adoption, VAWA, U Visas, divorce, child custody, immigration consequences of delinquency and crime, and immigration enforcement.

These three charts, updated in 2025, outline the different requirements for acquiring and deriving citizenship. Because the law governing acquisition and derivation has changed many times and is generally not retroactive, these charts detail what the eligibility requirements are depending on the time period in question. Each chart has extensive footnotes that provide explanations about the legal requirements, possible arguments where there is any ambiguity, and cites to further resources.

On September 6, 2011, USCIS issued a policy memorandum on adjudications of VAWA self-petitions for applicants who are over 21 but under 25 years of age.

This model code was written as a collaboration between our staff and accredited representatives around the country. It was inspired, in part, by the complaint heard occasionally (mostly from attorneys) that, while attorneys have a code of ethics to which they are bound, accredited representatives have no such code.

A description of critical resources available for California criminal defenders defending noncitizens:

Updated October 2012! A guide to assist public defenders and other to determine the immigration consequences of selected Arizona offenses.

Practice advisory by Katherine Brady on the Supreme Court case Nijhawan v. Holder, which deals with the categorical approach and aggravated felonies.

To read the monograph detailing the ILRC's work on social change lawyering, please download the following file:

ILRC Technical Assistance

by ILRC Staff Attorneys, 1996

This report is an introductory narrative of how Proyecto Campesino and O.L.A. Raza conduct community organizing, rural leadership development, and civic participation campaigns using radio programs, naturalization assistance, citizenship classes, and civic action leagues comprised of immigrant membership. Farmworker organizations can duplicate and adapt some of the information and organizing techniques in their own communities that these two dynamic organizations have been using for years.

Matter of Alyazji, 25 I&N Dec. 397 (BIA 2011), overruling in part Matter of Shanu, 23 I&N Dec. 754 (BIA 2005).

"Many Permanent Residents Are Not Subject to the § 212(h) Permanent Resident Bar; The Eleventh Circuit Reaffirms § 212(h) as a Direct Waiver of Deportability; Using § 212(h) When LPR Cancellation is Not an Option" by Kathy Brady

El DREAM Act (Acto de Sueño) es la legislación federal propuesta que ayudaría a los estudiantes trabajadores realizarse sus sueños de legalizar su estatus migratorio. Específicamente, el DREAM Act ofrecería un estatus legal y el acceso a la asistencia financiera para los jóvenes que se han graduado de un high school estadounidense o que han recibido el GED, que entraron a los EEUU antes de cumplir los 16 años, y que tienen por lo menos cinco años en los EEUU. Para calificar, cada estudiante tendría que cumplir o dos años de educación superior o dos años de servicio militar estadounidense.

"A brief overview of principles governing deference to an agency may be useful to practitioners new to this area. In immigration law, the immigration judge and the BIA may resolve almost all issues presented in an immigration case, and DHS and the AG will address many issues in regulation or other policy rulings." By Kathy Brady.