This highly interactive training will address advanced and emerging issues related to U visas, including the potential impact of the latest executive actions and orders on survivors of gender-based violence generally and on the U visa program in particular. Participants and panelists will strategize answers to scenarios that may arise in U visa cases, including framing qualifying crimes, complex inadmissibility, waitlist, consular processing, parole, and preventing the removal of survivors awaiting relief. It will include special sessions on comparing and contrasting humanitarian relief options and on using recent California law to encourage law enforcement certifications.  This training assumes knowledge of VAWA and U visa applications and adjustment of status and is intended for those with experience working on these cases. 

Panels:

• Emerging Issues in Enforcement and Detention
• Hot Topics-Inadmissibility, Consular Processing, Reinstatement & Voluntary Departure
• Intersections with Other Forms of Survivor-Based Relief
• Challenging Certification Issues

Speakers:

• Blaine Bookey, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
• Jessica  Farb, Immigration Center for Women & Children
• Cecelia Friedman Levin, ASISTA
• Angel Graf, Immigration Center for Women & Children
• Grace Huang, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
• Alison Kamhi, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
• Karl Krooth, Immigrant Crime and Justice PLC
• Cindy Liou, Kids in Need of Defense
• Gail Pendleton, ASISTA
• Catherine Seitz, Legal Services for Children
• Jennifer Tse, U.S. Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division

Registration:
Register by clicking here.

Cost:

• Non Profit/Legal Assistant:  $200 (includes ASISTA members who are non profits)
• ASISTA/NIPNLG Members:  $250
• Private Attorneys:  $300
• DOJ OVW grantees may ask their grant managers if they can use their training funds to attend, but this training is NOT funded by OVW. Please contact questions@asistahelp.org with any questions.