This webinar will focus specifically on enhancing your understanding of how to prepare a winning waiver application in the context of consular processing, especially at Ciudad Juárez. Another focus will be client and case preparation, especially within the content of screening your clients for the "permanent bar" under INA § 212(a)(9)(C). We will also cover how Ciudad Juárez works: the pilot-program, communicating with the consulate and USCIS, and other issues.

Presenters:
Mark Silverman, ILRC Director of Legalization and Community Organizing Projects
Mark is an expert in asylum law, Central American Policy, family immigration, and lawyering that supports civic action throughout Northern California and the Central Valley. He is the co-author of ILRC publication, Motions to Suppress, and he is the main author of the Asylum and Related Immigration Protection manual.

Stephen V. Scribner, Attorney at Law
Stephen is a solo practitioner in Santa Rosa, CA, with 12 years experience as an immigration attorney, including extensive experience representing IV applicants seeking hardship waivers via CDJ.

Erica Tomlinson, Partner at Immigration Law Offices of Mahoney & Tomlinson
Erica has practiced immigration law in the areas of family, employment, asylum, naturalization and removal since 1999. She serves as an AILA mentor on adjustment of status issues and is current a CLE coordinator for AILA NorCal. She is a contributing editor to ILRC's Advocate's Guide, and has volunteered and spoken at various Immigration Forums throughout Northern California sponsored by community groups, churches, and non-profit agencies and institutions, such as the Catholic Diocese, the University of California Davis School of Law, CRLAF, and the ILRC.

Deadline to register: 2/21/10

For more information and to register: www.ilrc.org/trainings_seminars/detail.php