Children’s Immigration Law Academy’s 2023 Written Resources

ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy, Jan. 2024 - "The ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) wishes you a Happy New Year and looks forward to continuing to support all the work that you do to help immigrant youth and children in 2024. We wanted to provide a summary of key resources we updated and developed in 2023! As a reminder, the following written resources are available for free on our website. Please sign up for a free membership for continued access to CILA’s resources. Thank you for all the work that you do! 

Links to CILA’s 2023 Written Resources 

Working with Youth

• Practical and Ethical Considerations and Reminders when Working with Translators and Interpreters (Apr. 2023)
• Have you Heard of DHS’s OIDO? (Apr. 2023)
• A Toolkit for Navigating Difficult Conversations with Child Clients: Guidance & Examples (Aug. 2023)
• ABA CILA Fact Sheet: Unaccompanied Children at the Border (updated Sept. 2023)
• Tips for Working with Migrant Children and Trauma-Informed Lawyering (updated Oct. 2023)
• CILA Pro Bono Guide: Working with Children and Youth in Immigration Cases (updated Oct. 2023)
• Resources for Working with Indigenous Individuals (updated Dec. 2023)
• CILA Highlights ABA Policy Efforts (Dec. 2023)
• CILA & ABA Commission on Immigration, 2023 Survey Results on Adherence to ABA Standards for the Custody, Placement and Care; Legal Representation; and Adjudication of Unaccompanied Alien Children in the United States (Dec. 2023)

Supporting Youth in the United States

• Resources to Help Advocates Working with Immigrant Youth Navigate Medical Care (Jan. 2023)
• A New Path: My Toolkit for Navigating Life in the United States, available in English and Spanish (June 2023)

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)

• Department of State Changes to Interpretation of Law Impacts Youth Approved for SIJS (Mar. 2023)
• Key Texas Statutes, Cases, and Opinions Significant to SIJ (updated Mar. 2023)
• Checklist: Key Elements of State Court Pleadings and Order (updated Mar. 2023)
• Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Manual for Texas Practitioners (May 2023)
• Pathway to Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) and a Green Card, available in English and Spanish (July 2023)
• CILA & Orlando Center for Justice, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Manual for Florida Practitioners (Aug. 2023)
• Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Overview (updated Oct. 2023)
• Quick Reference Guide – Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and EB-4 Immigrant Visa Availability (updated Oct. 2023)
• Form I-360 Review Guidance (updated Dec. 2023)

Asylum

• Trauma-Informed Representation in Asylum Cases: Asylum Interview & Asylum Merits Hearing Checklists (updated Dec. 2023)

Immigration Court Practice

• Demystifying the “Limited Appearance” in Removal Proceedings: An overview of EOIR-60 and EOIR-61 (Mar. 2023)
• CILA & National Immigration Litigation Alliance (NILA), Practice Advisory: In Absentia Orders (July 2023)
• CILA & NILA, Litigation for Unaccompanied Children: Updates and Foundational Cases – Case Summaries, handouts accompanying webinars (Jan. 2023, Apr. 2023, Oct. 2023)
• CILA & Loyola’s Center for the Human Rights of Children, Considerations for Tender-Aged Children in Immigration Court Proceedings (Sept. 2023)

Pro Bono Programs

• Localized Resources for Promoting Pro Bono Opportunities (Feb. 2023)
• Working with Translators and Interpreters in Unaccompanied Children’s Immigration Pro Bono Cases (Apr. 2023)
• The New Mexico Immigrant Law Center’s Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJS) Clinics (July 2023)
• RAICES: Using a Teamwork Approach for Asylum Cases (Nov. 2023)
• 1st Pro Bono Symposium hosted by the ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy & Commission on Immigration (Dec. 2023)
• Strategic Calendar Planning for Pro Bono Programs (Dec. 2023)

Fostering Community

• Advocate Encouragement Cards (Apr. 2023)

CILA’s blog, Together for Children’s Rights Updates, also provides regular updates on legal updates, shares useful resources, and uplifts children’s advocates. In 2023, CILA launched a new series of blog posts on Supporting Our Clients in the Interim by Rescreening for Relief. Learn more here about U visas, T visas based on labor trafficking along the journey, T visas based on labor trafficking in the United States, and VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) as the Self-Petitioner. The blog further includes monthly litigation updates from the Fifth Circuit, Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and Supreme Court with summaries of select cases. Check out all posts from this series here.

In addition to these written resources, recordings of many of CILA’s trainings are available online on the Advanced Trainings webpage, along with links to the slides and handouts from the trainings. For those in the Acacia Network, CILA further offers a set of resources in CILA’s Core Curriculum to help practitioners new the field. Moreover, in 2023, CILA added a webpage for state court judges to access resources related to SIJS.

Best,

The CILA Team

Laura Egan

(she/her)

Managing Attorney

Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA)

American Bar Association

     Working remotely from San Antonio, TX.

     (346) 444-2569 (main)

     (346) 374-0980 (direct) 

     laura.egan@abacila.org  

     www.cilacademy.org"