Practical Conversations: Family-Based Immigration & Naturalization

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This session is geared for individuals with legal advocate roles at their organizations (attorney, DOJ reps, legal support staff). At this session you will have an opportunity to start conversations that promote learning and sharing of effective legal practices and challenges focused on family based, Naturalization and affirmative immigration legal services cases.

Navigating the Remote Work Landscape: Best Ethical Practices, Policies, and Tools

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Remote work has become increasingly common in the last few years. How can your organization rely on remote services for purposes of capacity building and promoting access to legal services? What are tools, polices and best practices you can put into place to ensure that remote services are offered in an ethical manner? This session will dive into certain ethical considerations that come into play when offering remote services and steps you can take to achieve successful remote work.

Strategies for Release from Detention & Stays of Removal

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Increased enforcement under the Trump administration has led to the arrests and detention of tens of thousands of noncitizens. This panel will discuss strategies to advocate for clients’ release from detention, including parole requests, bond hearings before the immigration court, and habeas petitions. We will also discuss who is subject to mandatory detention and what steps a practitioner can take to challenge a mandatory detention determination. We will also discuss stays of removal before the administrative agencies and the federal courts.

Analyzing Criminal Records

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Understanding clients’ criminal histories is critical for immigration practitioners to properly advise and represent their clients. Depending on the outcomes of arrests by law enforcement, clients may be inadmissible, deportable, or barred from certain relief or showing good moral character. But reading criminal background checks, or “rap sheets,” criminal court case reports, and dispositions can be difficult and confusing.

Federal Policies, Legal Battles, and Advocacy: The Future of DACA, TPS, Categorical Parole and Border Protections

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The Trump administration has taken sweeping steps to attack protections for immigrants. Presenters will review the current landscape for forms of relief such as DACA, TPS, and parole, and protections at the border. Presenters will also highlight advocacy efforts and the legal challenges to the administration’s actions.