The Department of Homeland Security Public Charge Final Rule
Center for Study of Social Policy (August 14, 2019)
This FAQ on the DHS 2019 public charge rule provides responses to the most commonly asked questions related to this rule change.
Practice Update: Issuance of Notices to Appear (NTAs) in Denied Humanitarian-Based Immigration Cases
Practice Update: Issuance of Notices to Appear (NTAs) in Denied Humanitarian-Based Immigration Cases
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (June 21, 2019)
Over the last month, some practitioners have reported that USCIS has issued a number of NTAs in connection with denied U and T visa applications. Given these reports, ILRC, ASISTA, CAST, Freedom Network USA, American Association of Immigration Lawyers (AILA), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles created a practice update to address some of the actions practitioners can take in individual cases as well as to support policy-level advocacy efforts.
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.
Child Welfare Law, Immigration Policy, and Their Intersection
Howard Davidson, American Bar Association (n.d.)
This resource reviews intersecting laws and policies that impact child protective services and immigration. Included are federal laws and policies and suggested law and policy principles concerning child welfare services to undocumented child immigrants.
Keeping Immigrant Families in the Child Protection System Together
Ann Park, American Bar Association (March 26, 2019)
This article discusses legislation enacted in California that addresses some of these questions, as well as recent federal policy that helps safeguard the parental rights of undocumented immigrants involved in federal immigration enforcement proceedings. Additionally, this article reviews federal child welfare law and policy that support best practices for working with immigrant families.
Children as Bait: Impacts of the ORR-DHS Information-Sharing Agreement
Women’s Refugee Commission, National Immigrant Justice Center, Washington College of Law (March 26, 2019)
This report reviews the potential impacts of the new Memorandum of Agreement between the HHS and DHS to share information about unaccompanied children in government custody and their prospective sponsors. The report evaluates findings from a survey of individuals involved in the sponsorship application and vetting processes—including attorneys, biometrics technicians and fingerprint specialists, and child advocates—in order to better understand and document the full range of implications of this new MOA.
