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U nonimmigrant status and T nonimmigrant status, often called “U visas” and “T visas,” are humanitarian forms of immigration relief for crime survivors. Congress created these forms of relief with the dual purpose of aiding law enforcement, by encouraging crime victims to cooperate, and providing humanitarian relief for crime survivors. Both forms of relief have a certification process by which...

Increasingly prosecutors are asked to c on sider immigrati on c on sequences in the charging and plea-bargaining process. Some states have adopted policies requiring prosecutors to c on sider such c on sequences, see, e.g., Cal. Pen. C. § 1016.3(b), and some prosecutor offices have adopted internal guidelines mandating the c on siderati on of immigrati on c on sequences. This advisory provides c...

In February 2020, a federal judge in California issued an important decision in Gonzalez v. ICE limiting the issuance of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers by some ICE offices. The decision finds that ICE violates the Fourth Amendment by issuing detainers based solely on information from its own databases, which are too error-ridden to provide probable cause for the...

The Trump administration recently implemented new policies that make it harder for low- and moderate- income people to receive permanent residence (a “green card”) or some visas if they are subject to a public charge test. However, not everyone needs to worry about these changes to public charge, and even among those who are affected by these policies, people are impacted differently depending on...