Quick Guide: Defending SIJS Clients in Removal Proceedings
This practice advisory, authored with our partners at the End SIJS Backlog Coalition, Children's Immigration Law Academy, National Immigration Project, and Safe Passage Project, offers strategies at every stage of an SIJS client’s removal proceedings to advocate against the client’s removal and to preserve the record for appeal, including:
Why it matters
Useful as a practitioner-oriented overview from Immigrant Legal Resource Center on Removal Defense; review the source material for the most current authority and procedure.
Topics
Removal defense
BIA appeals
Special immigrant
Children and SIJS
Workflows
Immigration court deadline
BIA, PFR, and federal court
Children and SIJS
Forums
Immigration court
BIA
Jurisdictions
National