As many of you are aware, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) has a longstanding program that places asylum cases with pro bono attorneys. Through this program, LCCR has provided representation to hundreds of indigent asylum-seekers each year—the far majority of whom have been successful in their cases. Critical to the program’s success is the contribution of volunteer immigration attorneys, who provide technical assistance to our pro bono attorneys and field procedural questions. This year, LCCR is in great need of additional immigration attorneys who are willing to volunteer their time to guide pro bono attorneys handling asylum cases. Many of our pro bono attorneys continue to take cases long after receiving your guidance on their first asylum claims, and it is a great way to maximize the impact of your expertise in pro bono cases.
If you are interested in volunteering to mentor pro bono asylum cases, please sign up on our website here: http://lccr.com/get-involved/volunteer-opportunities/application-form/ or email LCCR at volunteer@lccr.com.
CRISP is planning an Immigration Forum and Consultations on Thursday, December 15, from 6:00-9:00 pm at Menlo-Atherton High School, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton. The presentation will be held in the Performing Arts Center and consultations will follow in the cafeteria. LASSMC and CLSEPA are co-hosting the event with the Sequoia Union High School District.
We are looking for volunteer attorneys to provide brief consultations and referrals to community members. If you can help, please sign up below (feel free to add rows!):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lvo0DNDvlP5H3pjNBWbT2K3KzeP_5z_ODt5v-FxNYdo/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jenny Horne, Staff Attorney
JHorne@legalaidsmc.org
The Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs of City & County of San Francisco in partnership with Legal Services for Children and other agencies is organizing a DACA renewal workshop on Tuesday December 6th at Lick Wilmerding High School at 755 Ocean Ave near Balboa Park Bart station from 5:30-8. Volunteer attorneys are needed to provide consultations and do final review on DACA renewal applications.
Please follow this link to sign up to volunteer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnPbB339hDapWecaJx5u0LRpbvu1-ETnjrmGtVSqIch_RSTQ/viewform
If you have questions, please contact: 415-805-1292 or DACA4SF@gmail.com
Volunteer attorneys and accredited representatives are needed to provide consultations. Please see the following information, including how to confirm participation, provided by Belen Pulido of the school.
Immigration Forum
Thursday December 8th 2016
6:00 – 7:30
REALM Charter Middle School
(2023 8th Street Berkeley, CA 94703)
Cross Street: University Ave. Closest Bart Station: North Berkeley Bart Station
Information about immigrant rights presented by Immigrant Legal Resource Centerattorney, Mark Silverman, and free consultations with an immigration lawyers. The consultations will probably begin by about 6:30 p.m.
If you are able to volunteer, please contact Belen Pulido at belen@realmcharterschool.org .
DACA Renewal Clinic Catholic Charities of the East Bay is hosting a DACA Renewal Clinic. If you need to renew your DACA status come to our Richmond service center on Saturday, December 3, 2016, from 10AM – 3PM. Please call one of our offices to register or for more information. Saturday, December 3, 2016 from 10AM – 3PM Richmond Service Center 217 Harbour Way Richmond CA 94801
CCEB is holding a DACA renewal workshop on Saturday in our Richmond office and we are looking for approximately 10 volunteer immigration attorneys to help with consultations and possibly form filling.
To sign up to volunteer, please contact our Volunteer Program Coordinator, Ivan Villaseñor Madriz at (510) 768-3166 or
ivillasenormadriz@cceb.org.
Want to learn about In-Country Refugee Processing for Minor Children from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras?
The IRC is holding an informational session in your area.
Quiere aprender más sobre el Programa de Reasentamiento Para Menores de Guatemala, El Salvador, y Honduras? El IRC estará informando al público en su área.
Learn about:
- What is the US Refugee Admissions Program
- What is the role of a refugee resettlement agency
- Who qualifies to file a CAM-AOR
- What benefits do refugees get upon arrival
- What options do other family members have
Location: Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Community Legal Serices
3455 5th Avenue
Sacramento CA 95817
When: February 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm
To Register: Call: (916) 340-6080 or email bnordahl@pacific.edu
JOIN THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
IMMIGRATION IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT: THEN AND NOW
The Northern District of California and its Federal Court have been the center of immigration issues since the 1800s. From the Chinese exclusion era, through the national origins quota system, the 1965 Immigration Act, the 1980 Refugee Act, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), and recent arrivals of unaccompanied alien children (UAC), this region has been critical to the interpretation of the immigration laws. Immigration attorneys, the immigration courts, and the Federal District Court have been central to these issues.
This unique program features immigration experts from the legal profession who have played a role in many of the historical developments including litigation over the citizenship rights of Filipino War Veterans, major asylum cases from around the world, the round-up of Iranian students, and the implementation of IRCA.
The panel also will provide practice tips as well as bring us up to date on what is happening currently with respect to asylum law, UAC cases, the enforcement focus on so-called criminal aliens, and the recent executive order by President Obama.
This is a joint program with the Northern District Practice Program
1.5 hours of MCLE credit; The Northern District of California Practice Program
is a State Bar of California Approved Provider
Panelists
Laura Ramirez, Immigration Judge (personal capacity)
Donald Ungar, Simmons & Ungar
Marc Van Der Hout, Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale,
Moderator
Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco Law School
Date: February 24, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30p.m.,
Place: Ceremonial Courtroom, 19th Floor,
450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco
Program is Free and Open to the Public,
TO RESERVE A SPACE YOU MUST RSVP TO:
HistoricalSociety@cand.uscourts.gov
Questions: (415) 522-3660
SAVE THE DATE!
Panel Discussion and Community Screening of Documentary
PASS OR FAIL IN CAMBODIA TOWN
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
6:00 to 8:00 pm
Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
55 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94111
Refreshments will be provided.
Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, Khmer Girls in Action, the Vietnamese Youth
Development Center, and Banteay Srei invite you to join us for a screening of “Pass or Fail
in Cambodia Town,” an episode of the PBS series, America by the Numbers with Maria
Hinojosa, which highlights the experiences of Cambodian-American youth in Long Beach,
California.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion of the experiences and challenges
facing Cambodian, Lao, Vietnamese, Mien, Khmu and Hmong Americans in the Bay Area
and throughout California. In particular, we will focus on the President’s new plan for
Administrative Immigration Relief and its impact on Southeast Asian American
communities.
Panelists
Anoop Presad, Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Lian Cheun, Khmer Girls in Action
Nkauj lab Yang, Banteay Srei
Thear Chum, Vietnamese Youth Development Center
Moderated by Angela Chan, Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Thank you to our Host Committee Members: Asian Pacific Environmental Network
(APEN), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), Center for Asian American Media (CAAM),
Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC), Oakland
Asian Cultural Center (OACC), Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), and Serve
the People
Dear AILA NorCal members:
On October 28 the Migration Policy Institute will offer a free event about Investor Immigration. Please find more details below.
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The Global Boom in Investor Immigration:
What Are the Lessons For Policymakers?A video chat withAtossa Araxia Abrahamian
Writer/Editor and author of forthcoming book on “global citizenship”
Nadine Goldfoot
Partner, Fragomen
Madeleine Sumption
Director of Research, International Program, MPI
and moderated by
Elizabeth Collett
Director, MPI Europe
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
9:30 A.M. EDT; 8:30 A.M. CDT; 7:30 A.M. MDT; 6:30 A.M. PDT;
2:30 P.M. BST/WEST; 3:30 P.M. CEST; 4:30 P.M. EEST
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary boom in investor immigration. From the rapidly expanding EB-5 visa in the United States to Malta’s controversial “cash for citizenship” policy and a host of programs across Europe and the Caribbean, governments around the world are increasingly offering residence rights or citizenship to wealthy individuals in return for a significant economic investment. These trends raise a host of policy questions. Which programs are most attractive for investors? Are destination countries getting a good deal? How can governments prevent the security lapses and corruption scandals that some investor programs have suffered? Is the thriving industry of middlemen who market the programs sufficiently regulated?
Join event speakers for a discussion on these questions and MPI’s report Selling Visas and Citizenship: Policy Questions from the Global Boom in Investor Immigration.
To ask a question of the presenters, email communications@migrationpolicy.org or tweet your question to @MigrationPolicy using #MPIinvestor
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For more information call 202-266-1929 or emailevents@migrationpolicy.org.
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Dear AILA NorCal Members:
On December 3-4, 2014, the Practicing Law Institute will have a free CLE event about representing UAC in California. Please find more details below.
Representing Unaccompanied Children in California – Best Practices & Key Avenues for Relief from Deportation: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
and AsylumCo-Chairs:
Kristen M. Jackson – Senior Staff Attorney, Public Counsel, Los Angeles
Hayley Upshaw – Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services for Children, San FranciscoJoin us for a comprehensive new 2-day program on representing unaccompanied immigrant children in California! Unaccompanied immigrant children (UACs) from Central America have been coming to California in increasing numbers for the past few years. These children are placed in removal proceedings, and without access to government appointed counsel, they have difficulties navigating the confusing and complex immigration system alone. Expert immigration practitioners from across the state will teach the basics of the immigration detention and removal process for children, best practices for working with these children, how to effectively present asylum and special immigrant juvenile status claims, and other removal defense strategies. This is sure to be a popular program. Don’t delay – register today!Live Webcast – December 3-4, 2014
FREE
- Best practices for working with children, including interviewing techniques and trauma-informed practices
- Overview of immigration detention and removal system for children
- Overview of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), including inadmissibility issues and representing SIJS eligible clients before USCIS and EOIR
- Nuts and bolts of SIJS cases in California probate court proceedings (seeking guardianship) and in California family court proceedings (seeking custody)
- Asylum claims for children
- Removal defense strategies (e.g., challenging the Notice to Appear (charging document), evidence of alienage, and other evidence brought forward by DHS)
- Benefits available for immigrant youth (education, public benefits, etc.)
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- New for 2014!
- Earn ethics credit
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Credit Information: CLE, CPD and Ethics Credit
Pro Bono Privileged Membership
PLI’s Pro Bono Privileged Membership provides participating non-profit organizations with an all-access pass to attend any PLI seminar without a fee and without having to submit a scholarship application.
The membership is an easy and convenient way for your organization to stay up-to-date on important legal issues. For more information or to apply, please contact
Pro Bono Membership Services.
There is basic to advanced programming in all of the pro bono topics that you need, available at your convenience from your computer, tablet or smartphone. Visit our
On-Demand Learning page and take advantage of these training tools!
A few related offerings include:
Click the links above for program descriptions and registration information!
Follow PLI’s Pro Bono Group on LinkedIn, and on Twitter @ProBonoPLI.
To Learn More About PLI Pro Bono Activities and Scholarships, Visit Our Website at: www.pli.edu/probono.
Want to attend the program with your colleagues and volunteers but can’t make it in person? Schedule a PLI Groupcast to allow group viewing via live or On-Demand Webcast in your office! Contact the Groupcasts Department via email atgroupcasts@pli.edu for more details. |
