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Immigration & Naturalization

Published: March 1996
Last Updated: May 2013

Course Handbook from the program Defending Immigration Removal Proceeding 2009, held August, 2009.

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Thank you very much. So I see we have this iPad for the first time. And since you don't have your faculty handbooks, you could click on Course Materials if you want to follow the discussion, and then go to PowerPoints. Click on PowerPoints. And the first PowerPoint is under Opening Remarks and Introduction. And that's the PowerPoint I'm going to use, Immigration Basics. It's also going to be on the screen. So if you're not adept with ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Alright. This panel is called Nonimmigrant Temporary Visa Categories, and we are very privileged to have two distinguished panelists. On my extreme right is Marko Maglich, who develops and directs White and Case's corporate U.S. Immigration law practice, which deals in all kinds of complex immigration matters. Marko also coordinates with White and Case's many non-U.S. offices to serve client needs in moving and hiring personnel in ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS MEHTA: So while the panelists setting up I'm going to introduce the panel to all of you. It's a great panel. All the panels are great but we are really fortunate to have three leading experts. And the previous panel spoke about grounds of inadmissibility and removeability. And this panel will talk about relief when someone's put into removal proceedings. And the first speaker on this panel is Anwen Hughes. She helps overseas human rights first ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS D. MEHTA: --session. And what we're going to talk about are inadmissibility and removal grounds and procedures. In the morning, we spoke about how somebody can get a benefit and apply for an immigrant visa. But we also cautioned about the various grounds of inadmissibility that could arise in the process. And that's what we're going to discuss this afternoon. We have a very esteemed panel. And to my near right is Linda Kenepaske who's been ...

Recorded on: Mar. 27, 2012

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK I think it's time that we start our next session. And we have two speakers. But they're not here as yet. But I guess we have to basically get started. Debbie will not be here because she-- unfortunately, she's got a family emergency. And she won't be able to do come today. So I will essentially substitute for Debbie. And Avi is on his way. But I've been instructed to start. So hopefully we will get this thing rolling. The next ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing-- Supreme Court's 2011 Blockbuster Term-- Review of Major Cases. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the [INAUDIBLE] Handbook ...

Recorded on: Aug. 3, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome to today's briefing, Calling All DREAMers. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab in the program window. Our speaker for ...

Released on: Nov. 7, 2012

Taken from the briefing Representing Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings: Learn How to Help recorded October, 2012. The number of unaccompanied children placed in U.S. custody in Fiscal Year 2012 has reached an historic high: over 14,000 children, more than double the number last year.  Many of these children, who range from toddlers to teenagers, are fleeing abuse, abandonment, and persecution in their home countries, or are ...

From the program: Immigration & Naturalization Institute (45th Annual)

Released on: Dec. 4, 2012

This year’s program will examine key immigration trends and hot topics for 2012.  You will hear from Washington insiders about what is likely to happen with immigration legislation during this election year.  Will anything move on bills eliminating the per-country limit for employment-based cases, or increasing immigration opportunities for high-skilled workers?  Will the Obama Administration’s recent actions on business ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, why don't we get started? Because of how topical the issue was, we were fortunate to be able to put in a section on the DACA, or the Deferred Action for the DREAMers. We have with us today-- Marielena Hincapie, who's the executive director of NILC, was called away to Washington at the last minute. But we're fortunate to have Kamal Essaheb with us today from NILC. He engages in advocacy and technical assistance relating to ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Welcome. We'd like to begin the second day of PLI with a panel on federal court litigation. We're really happy to have Karen Tumlin who is the managing-- one moment for technical difficulties. OK let's go, thank you so much. We're happy to begin the second day of PLI with the federal court litigation panel. We're lucky to have Karen Tumlin, who is the managing attorney of the Los Angeles office of NILC. She focuses on promoting the rights ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN FRAGOMEN: And one of the most important and vexsome areas we're confronted with in the practice of immigration law is legal ethics. And we have an inherent problem because of the dual representation in very difficult circumstances in which to apply dual representation in a really traditional way. At the same time, we have clients who are sometimes known to accuse us of not thinking outside the box, not being innovative enough, or perhaps, how ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CIA DE LAWRENCE: It is now my pleasure to introduce you to the co-chairs of today's program. We'll begin with Austin T. Fragomen. Over the course of his career in immigration, Austin has served as Staff Counsel to the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and International Law. And as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Austin has testified before Congress on a range of immigration ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN T. FRAGOMEN JR: So our next topic deals with family immigration. And obviously, this is an area we've more than touched on, when it comes to all the different aspects of representing children in every context imaginable, right? So we've already been through children in great detail, but now, we're going to talk about family immigration. And we'll talk about children in the more traditional sense of media relative petitions and things of that ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA LANGE: I hope you had a good lunch. We're ready to proceed with the afternoon sessions, and we want to talk about evolving trends at FDNS and related government audits. And to do so, we have two illustrious members of the immigration bar, Eileen Scofield and Mary Pivec. Eileen is head of Alston and Bird's immigration practice and focuses on employer compliance issues. And Mary Pivec is a partner at Williams Mullen in DC, and has extensive ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN T. FRAGOMEN, JR: Good afternoon. Our first topic this afternoon will be filing PERM cases in this economy, which is obviously a challenge. It goes without saying, filing PERM cases even under the best of circumstances is a challenge. But in an economy that's not particularly conducive to successfully going through the recruitment process certainly raises a lot of issues. And I think that it's an issue that we're all confronted with. To present ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, welcome back. We'll be rounding off the afternoon here with a couple of excellent panels. Right now, we'll be having Bernie Wolfsdorf and Stephen Yale-Loehr will talk to us about challenges to entrepreneurs coming to the United States. There's so much happening in this area, and we really appreciate the work that they've put into this. Robert Divine had planned on being here, and I think help work on the material but due to ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: So we're going to get started with our next panel, which is "Hot Topics on Relief from Removal." We have with us today. Archana Pyati, who joined the Sanctuary for Families as a senior staff attorney in November of 2007. She's been the deputy director of Immigration Intervention Project. And she manages the Sanctuary's Gender-Based Asylum Project. Also with Archana, Mario Russell will be addressing "Hot Topics on Relief ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, hello. We are here to talk about some of the hot-button adjudication issues at the USCIS Service Centers. My name's Cynthia Lange, and I'm going to introduce the panelists here. Robin Paulino works for Microsoft Corporation. She's Assistant General Counsel for their US Immigration program. In her role, she oversees 18 immigration attorneys providing strategic legal advice to senior leadership, as well as support to foreign ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA LANGE: Well, we'd like to proceed with our final program for today. "What Employers Need to Know About Immigration Enforcement." And I know this is what many of you have been waiting for. Ira Kurzban will speak to us. I know he's worked very hard on this. And I'll turn the time over to Ira. Thank you. IRA KURZBAN: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Come on, everybody, wake up. It's the last one. Hopefully we'll get through it. I'm ...

From the program: Basic Immigration Law 2013

Released on: Mar. 28, 2013

This program will explain the basic concepts of U.S. immigration law and procedure, and reflect current developments and trends, including developments relating to the new prosecutorial discretion policies.  Lecture Topics  [Total time 06:33:57] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program. Opening Remarks and Introduction* [00:00:50] Cyrus D. Mehta Overview of the U.S. Immigration ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: OK, so we'll get moving with the next panel. We spoke about how people get into removal and deportation proceedings. This panel will generally speak about how people can seek relief from removal and deportation. And just relief in general, because asylum can be sought even administratively outside the removal context. So we do have a great panel. And it's going to be a long panel-- 1 hour, 15 minutes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

CYRUS D. MEHTA: Hello, everybody. It's always a pleasure to do these PLI programs on basic immigration law. Immigration law is a very complicated area. And to cover the entire breadth of immigration law in one day is quite a challenging task for the faculty. Nevertheless, we will try to provide you with the basic aspects of immigration law. There might be times when it might get more complex. There are times when we try to keep it basic. But we'll ...