The Legal Aid Society and Latham & Watkins, LLP, June 2019 "Since 2016, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has denied the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) petitions of abused, abandoned, and neglected youth in... Read More
The Legal Aid Society and Latham & Watkins LLP, Apr. 10, 2019 "The Legal Aid Society and Latham & Watkins LLP lauded a Federal Court order in R.F.M. et al. v. Nielsen, et al. , that will ensure that class members’ applications for... Read More
Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 19, 2019 "This past Friday, the Department of Homeland Security’s random policy change deeming youths between the ages of 18 and 20 years old ineligible for special immigration protection ran into a brick wall in the... Read More
Charles Kuck writes - "On June 1, 2015, Kuck Immigration Partners, through our amazing associate attorney Anna Erwin , received a groundbreaking (but as of yet unpublished) decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals . The Board reversed the... Read More
CLINIC’s Training and Legal Support staff has written a short analysis of the potential implications for your clients of the State Department’s May Visa Bulletin, released on April 12. - " The State Department’s May Visa Bulletin... Read More
Safe Passage Project, Summer 2017 - "Safe Passage is proud to release the 2017 SIJS Manual co-authored by Alex Rizio and Gui Stampur. This manual is a step-by-step resource guide for representation of a SIJS -eligible clients. If you are a Safe Passage... Read More
"Anecdotal evidence suggests that a significant percentage of unauthorized immigrants are potentially eligible for some sort of immigration relief, but they either do not know it or are not able to pursue lawful immigration status for other reasons... Read More
"A bill signed on Saturday by California Gov. Jerry Brown will provide $3 million to qualifying nonprofits to offer free legal assistance for child migrants . Nonprofit legal service providers handling the cases of recently-arrived child migrants... Read More