Description:

This seminar is designed to teach practitioners how to effectively defend permanent residents charged with being removable. Topics include when the differing burdens of proof for admissibility, deportability, and applications for relief, defenses against the allegations in the Notice to Appear, the eligibility requirements for cancellation of removal, 212(h) waivers, 212(c), other forms of relief, and how to work with clients to elicit the evidence needed to defend their cases.

Instructors:Nora Privitera, ILRC Special Projects Attorney & Lead Staff Attorney for ILRC’s Attorney of the Day (AOD) Consultation Service. She is the author of ILRC publication, Hardship in Immigration Law: How to Prepare a Winning Case in Waiver and Cancellation of Removal Cases and the forthcoming ILRC publication, Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients in Removal Proceedings.

Angie Junck, Staff Attorney and specialist in the intersection between immigration and criminal law. She is a co-author of ILRC's publication Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit: The Impact of Crimes under California and Other State Laws and has also co-written other ILRC manuals, including A Guide for Immigration Advocates and Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship.

Deadline to register: 9/11/08