The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) immigration attorneys’ expertise focuses on family-based immigration, humanitarian relief, naturalization and citizenship, immigration enforcement, and removal defense.

Since 1979 we have helped expand the immigration expertise of attorneys, nonprofit staff, criminal defenders, and others assisting immigrant clients.

In addition to authoring the ILRC’s practice manuals, our expert attorneys have been published by Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), ILW.com, Huffington Post, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Center for Law and Social Policy, The Hill, LexisNexis Emerging Issues, and Fox News Latino.
 
We have also provided training to National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, Federal Bar Association, The State Bar of California, Legal Aid Association of California, Judicial Council of California and more.

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DACA Application Sample Cover Letter

05/19/2015
DACA
This is a sample cover letter that can be used when submitting a DACA application. This is a sample cover letter that can be used when submitting a DACA application.
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Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: A Primer for One-Parent Cases

03/12/2015
Immigrant Youth
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases, involving a claim of abuse, abandonment or neglect against one parent while the child resides with the non-offending parent, are commonly referred to as one-parent cases. These cases, though permissible under the plain language of the statute as well as federal agency interpretation, have proved challenging particularly at the state court phase of...
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Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Primer: How to Seek SIJS Findings in California Superior Courts

03/12/2015
Immigrant Youth
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status is a unique, hybrid form of immigration relief that requires the involvement of state courts before a child is eligible to apply for a special immigrant juvenile visa with U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. This guide includes an overview of the process of requesting SIJS findings in different types of state courts in California, providing answers to...
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Choosing an Immigration Representative: How to Avoid Fraud

Community Resources
03/09/2015

This resource is ideal for individuals who work directly with the immigrant community to raise awareness about immigration provider fraud prevention.  In this one-hour video, staff attorney Erin Quinn discusses protections available under California law and how to present information about immigration provider fraud at a community meeting.

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AB 60 Resources - Updated 4/29/2015

03/09/2015
Enforcement
The first handout, "AB 60 California Driver’s License: Frequently Asked Questions," is aimed at immigration attorneys and provides an overview of frequently asked questions regarding AB 60 licenses, including some common red flags. The second handout, "Preguntas Acerca de la AB 60," is aimed at community members and written in Spanish. It provides answers to common questions such as whether it is...
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FAQs on Immigration Authority of Local Law Enforcement

01/06/2015
Enforcement
This FAQ explains questions of legal authority for local law enforcement agencies to be involved in immigration enforcement. Specifically, the document reviews recent court decisions and examines how the law is evolving in regard to ICE detainers, administrative immigration warrants, and other immigration enforcement mechanisms that local law enforcement may encounter. The FAQ clarifies that even...
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DACA/DAPA Flyers

12/16/2014
Policy Advocacy
These flyers are for community members and can be used to screen people into eligibility, give information about the possible benefits and provide ideas for what people can do now to prepare.
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Summary of Administrative Relief

11/24/2014
Policy Advocacy
This Fact Sheet focuses on the expansion of deferred action, memorialized in a Memorandum by Jeh Johnson "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children and with Respect to Certain Individuals Whose Parents are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents."
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SB 873: How California’s New Law Benefits Unaccompanied Minors

10/30/2014
Immigrant Youth
SB 873 appropriates $3M to provide legal representation for Unaccompanied Minors in removal proceedings. The law also eliminates any ambiguity that California Superior Courts, including family courts, have jurisdiction to make the findings necessary for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (“SIJS”). This fact sheet outlines how the law benefits Unaccompanied Minors, including practice tips for how...
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Legal Update on CSPA After the Supreme Court’s Decision on Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio

Family-Based
10/28/2014

In Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the CSPA does not protect all of the derivative children of family-based immigrant visa applicants equally when they “age-out” of derivative status upon turning 21.  In this podcast, you will hear an example of how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Scialabba affects the “aged-out” child of a woman from Mexico whose priority date to immigrate as the sibling of a U.S. citizen has just become current.

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Anti-Fraud Flyers

10/07/2014
Community Resources
Policy Advocacy
At the ILRC, we believe in educating and thereby empowering immigrants. Immigrants are too often unaware that they have rights as consumers under California law, and that non-attorney immigration providers, defined as "immigration consultants," must meet strict requirements in order to operate legally in California. [ Information on getting Anti-fraud Assistance ]. To combat this problem, the...

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