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This webinar is intended for those already familiar with basic bond practice or have participated in an introductory bond webinar.  This webinar will provide an overview of the mandatory detention provisions and discuss legal challenges to overcome a mandatory detention finding. Additionally, we will cover arguments to combat prolonged detention, which will include a survey of current nationwide case law.

This recording provides a review of San Francisco’s rapid response program, including a discussion of lessons learned and best practices. Topics include: Considerations when assessing whether a rapid response network is needed, and if so, what components to consider when establishing a local network, and lessons learned by guest presenters.

This manual continues to be one of ILRC’s best-selling resources because it contains a unique combination of legal analysis and practical tips. Consisting of six chapters and extensive appendices, this indispensable guide thoroughly addresses how to prepare a hardship case. This manual describes in detail the different standards applicable in hardship law, as well as the factors involved in that analysis; and it demonstrates how to work with clients to elicit and to convey the information that will win a hardship claim. In addition, the appendices include sample non-LPR cancellation cover letters and index lists; sample waiver cover letters and index lists, including sample provisional waiver materials; declaration guides; sample support letters; a FOIA practice advisory and sample FOIA requests; a provisional waiver practice advisory; a summary of hardship case law; and many other essential tools for both private attorneys and practitioners working on cases that require a hardship showing.

The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants is a completely revised edition of our popular, comprehensive guide for advocates working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence.

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 experts on alternate care arrangements for children, including the Caregiver's Authorization Affidavit, Probate Guardianship, and informal arrangements for care.

During this webinar, we cover the complex issues involving citizenship for children. We review acquisition and derivation of citizenship, as well as INA§322 citizenship for children.

This webinar provides an overview and basic framework for analyzing the immigration consequences of crimes.

This webinar focuses specifically on enhancing your understanding of how to prepare a winning waiver application in the context of consular processing, especially at Ciudad Juárez.

This webinar focuses specifically on the requirements and process for obtaining U nonimmigrant status for immigrant victims of crime.

In this webinar, participants learn about the most common grounds of inadmissibility affecting applicants for family immigration, who bears the burden of proving admissibility, and which grounds can be waived.

This webinar provides practice tips for handling children's asylum claims in light of the changes created by the TVPRA, which gave CIS initial jurisdiction over all unaccompanied minors' asylum claims.

This webinar focuses on enhancing your understanding of how to prepare yourselves and your clients in the event that immigration reform is enacted in 2010.

This webinar provides an overview of the law in support of motions to suppress; cover the burdens of proof and/or persuasion in a motion to suppress proceeding; and address special problems that arise in suppression cases, including client preparation for ICE interviews and in-court testimony.

This webinar focuses specifically on the process for U nonimmigrants to adjust status and petition for qualifying family members under the new adjustment regulations.

In this webinar, we explore the types of crimes that may affect a person’s eligibility to immigrate through the family based preference system.

This webinar provides an update on how the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA signed into law on December 23, 2008) is being implemented, specifically focusing on interpretations of the changed eligibility requirements for filing a Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) petition.

In this webinar, we explore arguments that a noncitizen is eligible to apply for relief from removal, such as LPR and non-LPR cancellation, the former 10-year suspension and  212(c) waiver, and  212(h) waivers, despite having a conviction that would appear to be a bar.

This webinar seeks to provide practitioners with a practical overview of how the Hague Convention changes the rules of adoption.

During this webinar, we cover the various ways immigrant crime victims’ family members may obtain immigration benefits through U nonimmigrant status.

This webinar covers various topics of good moral character. We discuss discretionary and statutory bars to proving good moral character and the balance test that CIS must employ when deciding if an applicant who is not statutorily ineligible has good moral character.

This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of BIA jurisdiction, and also discusses how to challenge BIA decisions on jurisdictional grounds.

In this webinar, participants learn when the one-year bar applies, how it is calculated, address burdens and standards of proof.

During this webinar, we go step-by-step through the consular processing practice of helping U nonimmigrants travel into the United States with a U visa.

On this webinar, we review the most common and difficult inadmissibility challenges faced by U nonimmigrant applicants, arguments for those that do not apply, and how to screen for them, discuss how to address them on the Form I-918 application and the Form I-192 waiver request, strategies for winning waivers, and what kinds of inadmissibility waivers have succeeded or failed and why.

This webinar focuses on cutting-edge issues related to U visa cases, such as how to address age out issues, updates and best practices in filing U adjustment applications, and more.

During this webinar, we discuss the different ways in which an absence from the U.S. can affect a client’s naturalization application, including the effect upon his or her continuous residence, physical presence, abandonment of residence, and removability.

This webinar covers advanced VAWA issues, including addressing good moral character bars, inadmissibility grounds, and motions to reopen.

This webinar takes you step-by-step through the process of assembling and submitting a successful U nonimmigrant application.

In this webinar, we analyze the grounds of inadmissibility and waivers of those grounds and discuss the 2009 amendments to the CIS Adjudicator’s Field Manual on the grounds of inadmissibility.

This webinar will discuss preparing and submitting Requests for Termination of Removal Proceedings Based on Prosecutorial Discretion, as well as requests for Deferred Action. It will focus on how to base requests for prosecutorial discretion and how to utilize the memo of June 17, 2011 by ICE Director John Morton on the same subject.