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Public Charge and Immigration Law

Public Charge

While public charge has been a part of our immigration laws for more than a hundred years, changes including actions taken by the Trump and Biden administrations brought renewed attention to public charge law. The Trump-era changes to public charge...

The U Visa: Obtaining Status for Immigrant Survivors of Crime

U Visa/T Visa/VAWA

The U Visa: Obtaining Status for Immigrant Survivors of Crime will guide you through the entire process of handling an immigration case for a U visa petitioner—from eligibility screening for U nonimmigrant status, to communicating about the waitlist...

Parole in Immigration Law

DACA

Family-Based

U Visa/T Visa/VAWA

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center created the first comprehensive manual about parole in immigration law in 2016 to provide practitioners with a one-stop guide to the legal requirements of all the different types of parole, practice pointers about...

California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants: How to Use Criminal Courts to Erase the Immigration Consequences of Crimes

Crimes

Post-Conviction Relief

California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants: How to Use Criminal Courts to Erase the Immigration Consequences of Crimes guides advocates through how to use criminal courts to erase or mitigate the immigration consequences of convictions. This...

Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship: The Essential Legal Guide

Citizenship and Naturalization

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center continues to write and publish the most accessible and comprehensive guide on citizenship and naturalization in the country. This indispensable guide thoroughly addresses the entire process of representing a...

ILRC N-600 Comment

10/26/2023

Citizenship and Naturalization

Policy Advocacy

ILRC submitted this comment on the N-600 Certificate for Citizenship on October 26, 2023, with suggestions on how to make the form more accessible and consistent with current law and policy, thus increasing access to citizenship.

Basic Immigration Law Course

Training Dates Location

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California’s DACA & Naturalization Application Filing Fees Project

10/17/2023

DACA

If you are a DACA recipient living in California and facing financial challenges, you can get your renewal filing fees covered by connecting with and getting support from a participating direct services organization found in the directory below. Note that this support is only available until the end of 2023.

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ILRC Comments on USCIS PM Changes – Safe Address and Special Procedures for Persons Protected by 8 USC § 1367

10/16/2023

Policy Advocacy

U Visa/T Visa/VAWA

The ILRC commented on USCIS policy guidance regarding Safe Address and Special Procedures for Persons Protected by 8 USC 1367. ILRC commends USCIS for this guidance and provides suggestions for further strengthening the guidance.

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How the “Lawful Pathways” Asylum Ban Impacts Children & Youth

10/16/2023

Asylum

Community Resources

Immigrant Youth

On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration issued a new regulation creating a bar to asylum for people arriving at the southern U.S. border with certain narrow exceptions. Although there is an ongoing court challenge, the bar, known as the “lawful pathways” rule, remains in effect. This Community Alert explores the exceptions to the bar with a focus on some of the exceptions that apply to children and youth traveling with their families.

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