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ASISTA Practice advisory Jul 1, 2024

ASISTA Practice Alert: Parole in Place and Streamlined Employment-Based Visas: What We Know and What We Want to See for Immigrant Survivors (July 2024)

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VAWA / U / T Family-based practice USCIS Immigration court Direct PDF
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NIWAP Library Amicus brief Jun 15, 2024

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In a case brought in Federal District Court in Rhode Island an abused spouse whose VAWA self-petition had been approved challenged USCIS’s revocation of her approved petition. The self-petitioner was divorced from her abuser and remarried after filing the self-petition but before the self-petition had been approved. The court’s ruling allows the self-petitioner to fully litigate her challenge the USCIS’s revocation of her self-petition due to remarriage in Federal District Court. The court’s rul

Removal defense Federal court VAWA / U / T USCIS Federal district court Direct PDF
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ASISTA Practice advisory Jun 1, 2024

ASISTA Practice Advisory: Establishing Employment Authorization for T and U Nonimmigrants Without an EAD Card (Updated in June 2024)

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VAWA / U / T Family-based practice USCIS Immigration court Direct PDF
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ASISTA Practice advisory Jun 1, 2024

ASISTA Practice Advisory: Establishing Employment Authorization for T and U Nonimmigrants Without an EAD Card (Updated in June 2024)

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VAWA / U / T Family-based practice USCIS Immigration court Direct PDF
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ASISTA Practice advisory Jun 1, 2024

ASISTA Practice Advisory: Reinstatement of Removal and Immigrant Survivors (June 2024)

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VAWA / U / T Family-based practice USCIS Immigration court Direct PDF
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NIWAP Library Amicus brief May 2, 2024

Wilkinson v. Garland (September 2023) US Supreme Court.

NIWAP participated in an amicus brief on writ of certiorari to the US Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit to ensure that courts review BIA hardship determinations for immigrant victims of domestic violence seeking cancellation of removal under VAWA. SCOTUS ruled in favor of Wilkinson, holding that the application of the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard to an established set of facts is a mixed question of law and fact that is reviewable under 1252(a)(2)(D). This ruling gives

Removal defense VAWA / U / T BIA Court of appeals Direct PDF
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NIWAP Library Resource directory Apr 25, 2024

U Visa

United States V. Luciana Moreno-Lopez ; (June 7 2010) United States District Court, Eastern District of Chattanooga. The National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women, among others, and represented by Dean Hill Rivkin, filed an amicus brief in a case in which undocumented workers had been victims of extortion, when the workers complained to EEOC and the Department of Labor the employer retaliated by triggering the employees detention by the Department of Homeland Security. The workers

Detention / bond Federal court Consular practice Federal district court
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NIWAP Library Resource directory Apr 25, 2024

VAWA Confidentiality

Hawke v. Department of Homeland Security , (May 23 2008) United States District Court for the District of Northern California. Legal Momentum, represented by Morgan and Lewis submitted this amicus brief discussing the history and purpose of VAWA Confidentiality created in 1996 (expanded in 2000 and 2005) as Section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”). In this case of first impression, the Court clarified that VAWA confidentiality provisions p

Federal court VAWA / U / T Federal district court
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NIWAP Library Amicus brief Nov 16, 2023

Matter of MA

In the Matter of M-A. (2020) Brief filed with the Board of Immigration Appeals. NIWAP was lead amicus in an appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeal in a case of first impression challenging an Immigration Judge’s denial of VAWA cancellation of removal to an LGBTQ+ immigrant victim of spouse abuse who suffered multiple VAWA confidentiality violations including Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement informing the court they planned to call the perpetrator as a witness, submitting an affidavit by t

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NIWAP Library Amicus brief Nov 1, 2023

Arguijo v. USCIS (July 24 2020) US Court of Appeals 7th Circuit

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) represents Jennifer Arguijo, who was 11 years old when her mother married her stepfather, who turned out to be abusive. Applying BIA case law from other contexts, VSC held that a stepchild-stepfather relationship ends after the biological parent divorces the stepparent, unless there is a “continuing relationship” between the stepchild and stepfather. NIJC sought reconsideration, and appealed to the AAO. The AAO affirmed the VSC’s decision to deny the

Removal defense BIA appeals Federal court USCIS Immigration court Direct PDF
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NIWAP Library Amicus brief Nov 1, 2023

Rosario v. Holder (May 10 2010) US Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit

Rosario v. Holder (May 10 2010) US Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit. National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women respectfully moves pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure for 29 for leave to file an amicus brief in support of Appellant Josefa Rosario. Client placed in removal proceedings, concedes removability and applies for VAWA Cancellation of Removal. IJ denies cancellation based on finding that there is not substantial evidence of battery to the extent envisioned by the st

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NIWAP Library Amicus brief Oct 24, 2023

Aguilar-Jimenez

In the Matter of Aguilar-Jimenez, Board of Immigration Appeals (2002) Filed an amicus brief discussing the “extreme cruelty” and “extreme hardship” standards in the context of requests for suspension of deportation under VAWA, specifically that extreme cruelty includes the psychological and emotional abuse imposed on a child who is forced to watch as a parent is battered by another parent. (Crowell and Moring Pro Bono)

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