Are your TPS clients eligible for permanent relief through family-based immigration?

Over the coming months DHS will continue to review TPS designations for several countries.

In this webinar we will explore options to help TPS recipients who are immediate relatives adjust status. We will review adjustment of status under INA sections 245(a) and 245(i) and adjustment for TPS holders residing in the 6th and 9th Circuits.

With ongoing changes to the Temporary Protected Status landscape and the end of Deferred Enforced Departure, it is important that advocates have up-to-date information and advise clients appropriately.

This webinar reviewed recent developments that affect TPS clients, including:

While the fate of TPS for currently designated countries is uncertain, it is still necessary to start preparing clients and the community for potential terminations.

This training will cover: current TPS designations and anticipated timelines for determinations on termination/extension; advising and screening clients for other forms of relief; how designated countries are supporting their diaspora in the United States; and CLINIC’s advocacy efforts to defend TPS and other forms of humanitarian relief.

The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. announces the launch of the National Immigrant Empowerment Project, known as NIEP. CLINIC seeks to fund eight affiliates in rural areas for this four-year project through a competitive request for proposals.

The NIEP will:

Community-based organizations have great power and potential to enact community change at the local level. Join us as we learn from CLINIC affiliates FaithAction International House, Catholic Charities SW Ohio and La Casa de Amistad who have achieved great success in creating Community ID cards, available to anyone in their community.

Learn how you can use client and program data to tell compelling stories about the value of your immigration legal services.  In this webinar, we presented different evaluation tools that give you the facts you need to tell compelling stories and gain more support from funders and other stakeholders.

Learn how to best incorporate volunteers into your efforts to promote citizenship in the refugee and asylee community. This webinar provides specific ideas about how to use volunteers in your program’s efforts to raise the naturalization rates of your refugee clients. For those programs offering immigration legal services, we discuss how to avoid the unauthorized practice of law and give specific examples of what volunteers can do within a legal services office. We will also discuss a few specific resources CLINIC has created that will benefit you in your work.

On September 22,2018, the Department of Homeland Security posted on its website the text of its much-anticipated proposed rule re-defining public charge. The agency’s proposed rule would significantly alter the way USCIS officers screen for potential public charge of adjustment of status applicants or of nonimmigrants applying for an extension or change of status.

In this webinar, CLINIC presenters reviewed the proposed changes, what they mean for immigrant families and steps you can take to oppose the rule once it is published in the Federal Register.

Learn how workshop models can be used for different purposes including public education, pre-screening, document organization, scheduling for services and application completion. Hear presenters discuss ways to use workshop models for the current reality as we wait for a Supreme Court decision on President Obama’s executive actions for administrative relief, specifically expanded DACA and DAPA. There is much work to be done to prepare future applicants and hopefully serve them with application assistance.

Do you know how to help your clients with disabilities to naturalize? Watch this free recorded webinar on the special provisions in the law for people with disabilities such as reasonable accommodations, disability waivers, and oath waivers. Topics covered include eligibility, the application process, and practice tips. We also provide case examples and answer some frequently asked questions.