Marriage-Based Immigration
This webinar will walk participants through the ins and outs of marriage-based immigration. We will explore the law around the concept of a bona fide marriage and examine issues such as prior marriages, proxy marriages, polygamy, and bigamy.
Advanced SIJS
This webinar will address advanced issues in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases, such as one-parent cases, challenges in probate court, continuing juvenile court jurisdiction and common inadmissibility issues.
Asylum Claims for Unaccompanied Minors
This webinar is an advanced training for practitioners familiar with asylum. The webinar will take participants through the process of preparing and presenting an asylum claim on behalf of an unaccompanied immigrant child (UAC).
Crimes Bars to DAPA and DACA
The eligibility requirements for DAPA are fairly straightforward -- except for persons with a criminal record.
Representing SIJS-Eligible Youth
This webinar will cover the basic components and procedure of a Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) case, with particular focus on obtaining the state court order necessary to apply for SIJS with the federal government. The application for a...
ICE Hold Developments and Impact on Immigration Practitioners
This webinar will discuss these changes and the implications for immigration practitioners, including how they may affect mandatory detention and motions in immigration court.
Litigating Complicated Asylum Claims and Related Relief
All hope is not lost when the USCIS or the immigration judge deny your client’s asylum claim. This webinar will give practitioners tips for keeping an asylum claim alive when presented with some of the toughest bars, such as the one-year deadline or...
Hardship in Waivers
This webinar will review the forms of immigration relief including waivers of inadmissibility that require the applicant to prove hardship. We will cover non-LPR cancellation of removal, the waivers for misrepresentations, crimes, and unlawful...
Waivers for Unlawful Presence: the I-601 and the I-601A Provisional Waiver
This webinar will discuss current practice for filing waivers for clients with unlawful presence. Aside from an overview of how to present a case based on hardship, we will cover the I-601A process, including latest policy developments focused on...
The Categorical Approach – Ninth Circuit
In this webinar we will take the categorical approach and attempt to break it down from the basic, reliable defense tools to the more advanced questions.