This interactive training will address advanced and emerging issues related to U visas, including the possible impact of a new Administration and Congress. Participants and panelists will strategize on answers to complex scenarios that may arise in U visa cases, including framing qualifying crimes, complex inadmissibility, waitlist, consular processing, parole, adjustment issues, and preventing the removal of survivors awaiting relief.  It will include special sessions on comparing and contrasting humanitarian relief options and on using the recent Colorado 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.

Speakers:

• Maria Baldini-Potermin, Maria Baldini-Potermin & Associates, Chicago
• Cecelia Friedman Levin, ASISTA
• Hiroko Kusuda, Loyola New Orleans College of Law
• Hans Meyer, Meyer Law Office, Denver, CO
• Sonia Parras-Konrad, ASISTA
• Gail Pendleton, ASISTA
• Carmen Maria Rey, Sanctuary for Families, NYC
• Susanna Saul, Her Justice, NYC

Panels:

• Interactive Case Rounds: Strategies for complex scenarios in presenting cases and responding to CIS, including intersections with the new executive orders, framing the case, and problems that arise after filing.
• Hot Topics: Adjudication trends of U visas, including responding to RFEs and denials on criminal issues (juvenile offenses, requesting police reports), enhancing relief for those on the waitlist (parole and EAD projects), flagging and fixing reinstatement, failure to voluntarily depart, and identifying possible new options for challenging CIS failure to implement the law as Congress intended.
• Overview:  Protecting Clients Against Removal: How to protect your survivor clients in the new enforcement atmosphere, including practical tips on ICE safety planning, flagging for potential detention/removal issues, and bringing political organizing strategies into your work for and with survivors.
• Skills Building to Prevent Removal:  What, When, How?: Experts on stays and federal court actions will teach the rest of us (including panelists) how to identify and plan for filing stays and federal court actions (habeas, APA, declaratory judgments, etc).
• Applying the Skills:  What do do when removal threatens? Panelists will work with participants in break-out groups to identify and craft possible new approaches to preventing removal.  Participants will work together on drafting stays, possible federal court actions and action plans for preventing removal.

Registration:
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