Public Charge Relief Chart
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (December 10, 2019)
This resource will help to determine a clients public charge applicability to applications and provides a list of relief forms to assist.
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.
Current Status of Public Charge
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (October 28, 2019)
CLINIC has prepared an analysis of the current status of the public charge rules and advice for practitioners.
Online Detainee Locator System
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2019)
This webpage can be used to search for and locate a detainee who is currently in ICE custody.
Featured Issue: 2019 Large-Scale Enforcement Actions and Raids
American Immigration Lawyers Association (August 2019)
This webpage provides various resources to assist in responding to large-scale immigration enforcement actions and raids.
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
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.
What Part of Legal Immigration Don’t You Understand?
Mike Flynn & Shikha Dalmia, Reason Magazine (October 2009)
This document provides a visual graphic of the pathways through the U.S. immigration system in order to attain legal status.
Legal Resource List
Center on Immigration & Child Welfare, Corinne Wolfe Center for Child & Family Justice (April 2019)
This document highlights legal resources related to child welfare, public benefits, separated children, special immigrant juvenile status, and trauma responsive practice.
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.
