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Practice Alert: SIJS policy updates and proposed regulations

By | Immigrant Youth, Immigration Relief, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice, Practice Highlight, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)

Practice Alert: SIJS Policy Updates and Proposed Regulations

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (November 5, 2019)

This practice alert highlights the key take-aways from three recently adopted AAO decisions and some of the most important elements of the proposed regulations for advocates to challenge through comments, and contains an Appendix with case summaries of the AAO decisions.

Helping Immigrant Clients with Post-Conviction Legal Options: A Guide for Legal Services Providers

By | Highlighted Resources, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice Highlight

Helping Immigrant Clients with Post-Conviction Legal Options: A Guide for Legal Services Providers

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (June 14, 2019)

This guide, created by the ILRC and Californians for Safety and Justice, is an effort to turn these “rare cases” into the rule, rather than the exception, by helping to build the capacity of legal service providers and pro bono attorneys to provide post-conviction relief to immigrants who would face certain deportation without it.

Practice Advisory: Immigration Benefits for Surviving Relatives

By | Highlighted Resources, Immigration Relief, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice, Practice Highlight

Practice Advisory: Immigration Benefits for Surviving Relatives

Peggy Gleason, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (May 2019)

This practice advisory covers three possible immigration remedies that beneficiaries might be able to pursue if a family member dies during the immigration process.

Practice Advisory: Asylum Seekers Stranded in Mexico Because of the Trump Administration’s Restrictive Policies: Firm Resettlement Considerations

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Practice Advisory: Asylum Seekers Stranded in Mexico Because of the Trump Administration’s Restrictive Policies: Firm Resettlement Considerations

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (April 24, 2019)

This practice advisory takes practitioners through firm resettlement considerations and potential arguments. It also provides discussion around exceptions to the firm resettlement bar and reviews known facts about the legal status of U.S. asylum seekers who are forced to remain in Mexico.

How Early Childhood Providers Can Create “Safe Space” Policies

By | Early Childhood, Immigrant Youth, Legal Professionals, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Workers, Youth & Families

How Early Childhood Providers Can Create “Safe Space” Policies

Rebecca Ullrich, CLASP (April 2019)

CLASP has released a guide to creating “safe space” policies for early childhood programs. Safe-space policies safeguard programs against immigration enforcement actions and protect families’ safety and privacy. In this guide, advocates, providers, and policymakers will find information about developing and implementing safe-space policies, sample policy text that can be adapted by individual early childhood programs, and a list of key resources for providers and parents.

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