March 10–24, 2025 | 2-3:30 p.m. ET | CA MCLE: 1.5 per webinar

Virtually every form of immigration relief that a client may seek is impacted in some way by having a criminal record. Beyond the issues of inadmissibility and deportability, a client’s criminal record may fall within a relief-specific bar to eligibility, affect the assessment of good moral character and discretion, or subject the client to mandatory detention. This three-week webinar series will guide advocates through the steps for analyzing a client’s criminal record, recognizing the potential impact a record may have on the client’s immigration case, and determining how to appropriately counsel a client facing immigration consequences of a criminal offense.  
 

NOTE: Access to recordings of the webinars is included with your purchase of the three-part webinar series. Your access will be available until April 24.  

Webinar One: Getting Started: How Can a Criminal Record Affect Your Client’s Case?

March 10 | 2-3:30 p.m. ET | CA MCLE 1.5

In this webinar we will review best practices for evaluating your client’s criminal history, including effective interviewing and how to obtain and read criminal records and state criminal statutes. We will also examine the scope of crime-based inadmissibility and deportability, and how crimes affect relief-specific bars to eligibility, good moral character, discretion, and exposure to enforcement and detention.  

Webinar Two: Convictions, Admissions, and Conduct-Based Inadmissibility  

March 17 | 2-3:30 p.m. ET | CA MCLE 1.5

This webinar will examine what case dispositions qualify as convictions and when a challenge to the conviction will be recognized for immigration law purposes. We will also review when admissions to criminal conduct or the conduct alone without an admission may trigger an immigration consequence. In addition, the webinar will examine crime-related questions and instructions on application forms, including the role of arrest records in adjudications.  

Webinar Three: How Do You Know if a Crime Triggers Inadmissibility, Deportability or a Relief-Specific Bar to Eligibility?  

March 24 | 2-3:30 p.m. ET | CA MCLE 1.5

In webinar three, we will review the case law surrounding crimes involving moral turpitude and aggravated felonies as well as the categorical approach used to analyze these specific grounds of removability. We will also discuss relief-specific bars to eligibility for applications such as for TPS, DACA, asylum and withholding of removal. Finally, we will talk about controlled substance offenses as well as exposure to crime-based immigration consequences for the legal use of marijuana.