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Employment-Based Immigration Opportunities for Immigrant Youth

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As changes continue to unfold with the DACA program and many immigrant youth have been left out of the program, it is important that immigrant youth are being screened and informed of all immigration options. Immigration law provides a path for...

Identifying Alternative Forms of Relief and Analyzing Problem Issues for Children and Youth

Immigrant Youth

This webinar will cover forms of relief and issues for children and youth, beyond asylum and SIJS, such as CSPA, 245(i), recapturing priority dates, selected inadmissibility issues and other children’s issues. It will give practitioners who are...

Youth & Immigration

Immigrant Youth

Removal Defense

Location: San Francisco State University Extension, 835 Market Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103

Military Naturalization Webinar

Citizenship and Naturalization

Family-Based

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Special Immigrant Juvenile Status [PRODUCT NOT AVAILABLE – NEW EDITION COMING SOON]

Immigrant Youth

Immigrant children and youth may be eligible for special types of immigration relief available just for children or they may be eligible for immigration relief in different ways than adults. In addition, separate procedures may and often do apply in...

Family Preparedness Planning in California

Community Resources

Immigrant Youth

This free recorded webinar will arm immigration advocates with the information they need to help immigrant families make a plan for their children if they are unable to care for them due to detention and/or deportation. It will feature California...

Confidentiality of Juvenile Records in California: Guidance for Immigration Practitioners

09/27/2022

Immigrant Youth

Removal Defense

California has strict confidentiality laws that govern when and to whom records from dependency and youth justice (delinquency) proceedings may be released. Immigration advocates need to be aware of these laws and ensure they are complied with when representing individuals with California juvenile records. This guide provides an overview of the law and practical guidance for how to handle issues of juvenile confidentiality before USCIS.

The ICE Parental Interests Directive: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Advocate with ICE to Ensure Fair Treatment of Detained or Deported Parents

09/07/2022

Detention

Immigrant Youth

This resource summarizes the ICE Parental Interests Directive – a critical tool to help child welfare agencies address challenges for detained or deported parents – and explains how to use the Directive to advocate with ICE. It also discusses the heightened need for advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Overview of ICE’s Victim-Centered Directive

06/23/2022

This advisory provides an overview of ICE’s new “victim-centered” approach to immigration enforcement based on an August 2021 directive, including who qualifies as a victim and which ICE actions are covered. As part of this new approach, ICE officers and agents are instructed to look out for and in various circumstances exercise prosecutorial discretion in favor of noncitizen survivors of crime as part of their decisions to arrest, detain, release, and refer noncitizens.

An Overview of Public Charge

05/04/2022

This advisory provides practitioners with current information about the public charge ground of inadmissibility, including addressing what is public charge, who does it apply to, how is public charge evaluated, and could being a public charge make someone deportable.

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