Employment-Based Immigration Visas for DACA Recipients
This practice advisory describes common employment-based visa options for DACA recipients.
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This practice advisory describes common employment-based visa options for DACA recipients.
Since 2022, the CARECEN settlement agreement has provided important benefits to certain Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients with prior removal orders who are eligible for adjustment of status. The CARECEN agreement sunsets on January 19, 2025. This practice alert first describes who can benefit from the agreement, then explains the importance of acting soon to ensure eligible clients access the agreement before it expires, and finally asks practitioners to share their experiences with th
The National Immigration Project, Amica Center (formerly CAIR Coalition), and the ACLU of Virginia sued the Washington Field Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on behalf of nine individuals whom ICE arbitrarily detained for months after they won immigration relief protecting them from deportation to their countries of origin where they face persecution, torture, or death. The case, Rodriguez Guerrera v. Perry , No. 1:23-cv-1151 (E.D. Va.), was brought in the U.S. District Court
This practice advisory discusses the Supreme Court’s decisions in Niz-Chavez , Pereira and Campos-Chaves , and provides strategies for practitioners to consider in cases where the client’s NTA was defective. As this area of the law continues to develop, practitioners should use this practice advisory as a starting point but engage in their own research into the state of the law. Updated on July 29, 2024.
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) records requests are an important tool for advocates who are representing people who were detained in ORR custody as children. This practice advisory discusses the role ORR records play in an immigration case and outlines the process for requesting them.
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In a case brought in Federal District Court in Rhode Island an abused spouse whose VAWA self-petition had been approved challenged USCIS’s revocation of her approved petition. The self-petitioner was divorced from her abuser and remarried after filing the self-petition but before the self-petition had been approved. The court’s ruling allows the self-petitioner to fully litigate her challenge the USCIS’s revocation of her self-petition due to remarriage in Federal District Court. The court’s rul
This practice advisory, along with the accompanying report, Bias in the Criminal Legal System: A Report Aggregating Social Science Research and Reporting on Racial Bias in the Criminal Legal System, and template brief , provides a framework for you to make legal arguments and introduce evidence during your client’s immigration court proceedings if they are seeking discretionary relief or requesting bond. You can use this advisory and the accompanying report to argue that the immigration judge sh
On July 29, 2024, an important new Executive Office for Immigration Review final rule, Efficient Case and Docket Management in Immigration Proceedings, goes into effect. Among other things, the rule codifies the authority of immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals to administratively close and terminate removal proceedings. This practice alert describes this rule’s origins and summarizes its key provisions.
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