Immigrant Leadership Training Curriculum

The central focus of the curriculum is to help immigrants develop and refine their leadership and advocacy skills, and to teach them how to help others apply for citizenship. Using interactive teaching techniques, the curriculum is designed to give...

Hardship in Immigration Law

This manual continues to be one of ILRC’s best-selling resources because it contains a unique combination of legal analysis and practice. This manual describes in detail the different standards applicable in hardship law, as well as the factors...

Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit

Crimes

Criminal defense attorneys who represent noncitizens and immigration attorneys alike have long relied on ILRC’s expertise and resources in defense of noncitizens in criminal and immigration proceedings. This manual shows step-by-step how to identify...

A Guide for Immigration Advocates [Obsolete]

Completely updated in 2014. A Guide for Immigration Advocates is a practical and essential tool for beginning immigration attorneys, immigration law firms employing paralegals, BIA accredited representatives, and nonprofit community-based...

2013 Case Update for Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit

Crimes

Now available and updated for 2013! The Case Update to the Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit: Impact of Crimes under California and Other State Laws. The PDF provides the 2013 update only to the 10th Edition, and does not include the full...

State Map on Immigration Enforcement
In recent years, sanctuary policies have increasingly become a political, legal, and narrative battle between those who seek to protect the rights of immigrants and communities of color and those who oppose them. The federal government has built a massive infrastructure that exploits state and local resources in the name of detaining and deporting immigrants. In response, state legislatures and governors across the country have had a crucial choice: pass sanctuary policies to protect their residents, pass anti-immigrant policies that harm residents, or do nothing. Through all this, activists have strategized and rallied others to their cause, courts have upheld or struck down pieces of legislation, and millions of lives have been irrevocably impacted.

Blueprint for the Biden Administration: Update

Blueprint for the Biden Administration: Update

Join the ILRC’s Policy Director, Sameera Hafiz, and  ILRC Legal Program Director, Alison Kamhi, as we revisit the policy recommendations put forth in our Blueprint for the Biden Administration. What progress has been made in the last year? Where do we go from here? 

 Thank you to all of our donors and supporters who make the Immigration Issues Explored series possible. 

 

Thanks again for attending the ILRC donor conference call, Blueprint for the Biden Administration: One Year Update. We wanted to follow up in response to a few questions we received during the call for more information

    1. Naturalization: During the call, ILRC discussed advocacy with USCIS to increase access to disability waivers for green card holders applying to naturalize. USCIS proposed welcome changes to Form N-648, Medical Certification for Disability Exceptions, to simplify and streamline the process to make it easier for disabled green card holders to obtain citizenship, but these changes have not yet been implemented. Please see the following advocacy letter regarding the proposed revisions (Nov. 2021): https://www.ilrc.org/advocacy-comment-n-648-naturalization-disability.
    2. TPS: ILRC discussed the increased use of temporary protected status (TPS) as protection for vulnerable populations during the Biden Administration. We were pleased to see the announcement on March 16 that Afghanistan has been designated for TPS, which will help protect Afghan nationals in the United States from returning to unsafe conditions in Afghanistan: https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/secretary-mayorkas-designates-afghanistan-for-temporary-protected-status.

Immigration Issues Explored: Fighting Injustices

Fighting Injustices

Join the Immigrant Legal Resource Center for the next in our 2021 Donor Conference Call series, Immigration Issues Explored. December’s topic is "Fighting Injustice” explored how the criminal legal system in Texas unjustly treats immigrants and drives deportations, and what strategies the ILRC employs to fight back.

The call was led ILRC’s Executive Director, Eric Cohen, in conversation with ILRC Senior Staff Attorney, Lena Graber, and Texas-based Staff Attorney, Anita Gupta.

Watch the recording here with passcode: Q^17zKcM

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Find Your Ally

The Higher Education Legal Services Project is a California-funded effort to provide FREE immigration legal services to students enrolled in the California Community College & California State University systems. This unprecedented project brings together trusted and reputable legal services providers to offer direct legal support to immigrant college students so they can best assess their unique case and plan for their future.

Partner organizations offer pro bono immigration consultations and case support on campus and/or online to any enrolled students – whether they are full time, part time, or they are taking non-credit courses, dual enrollment, and adult education courses.

The support includes a wide range of services including, but not limited to, screening for different forms of relief, DACA renewals, family-based petitions, citizenship/naturalization requests, and more. Students attending California Community Colleges are also eligible to have their DACA fees covered under this program. Faculty and staff at California Community Colleges are also eligible for free immigration legal services under this project. Select the option that applies to you below to be routed to the legal services page for your respective school system.

 

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