Join us for an in-depth examination of the most important issues of immigration law today.

The purpose of this program is to provide the immigration lawyer with a comprehensive background that is essential to a practical understanding of and connections between the major areas of immigration law, from the sources of governmental power over immigration to asylum, adjustment of status to family and employment based immigration to exclusion and removal grounds and procedures to relief from removal, concluding with the acquisition of American citizenship. In one comprehensive program, limited to 15 participants in order to facilitate in depth discussion, the program offers the practitioner all that he or she should need to know about immigration law.

Six three and one-half hour sessions will cover the gamut of immigration law, from the fundamentals to more complex legal problems, with an emphasis on recent changes in the law. Topics will include:

• Congressional and executive powers to control immigration
• Grounds of inadmissibility, with an emphasis on frauds, crimes and waivers
• Nonimmigrant and immigrant classifications and preferences
• Refugee and asylum
• Adjustment of status
• Removal grounds and procedures and provisions for relief from removal
• Judicial review
• The impact of AEDPA, IIRIIRA and NACARA
• Acquisition of United States citizenship

The program, which has proven to be one of ILRC's most popular during the past ten years, will once again be led by Don Ungar, one of the nation's most experienced immigration attorneys and the first recipient of AILA's Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation, as well as the Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award. Currently of counsel to the firm of Simmons and Ungar, Don has litigated numerous important immigration cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts and court of appeals, as well as the United States Supreme Court. He is also known for his fresh and innovative approach to immigration law, and recognized for his talent as a skilled teacher of immigration law. Don has taught immigration law at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt School of Law and lectures extensively in various aspects of the immigration law.

Don Ungar has been practicing immigration law since 1962 and is a Certified Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Don is one of those outstanding attorneys who originally learned his trade by working for the INS many years ago.

This program is not a "how to fill out immigration forms" kind of program. Rather, it is meant to provoke discussion and provide insights on the major issues of immigration law.

It is open to attorneys, preference being given to those with at least one year of immigration law experience, and fully accredited representatives, based on his/her experience. For those who want an insightful (and sometimes delightful or depressing) look into every nook and cranny of immigration law, this is the program.