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ASISTA Practice advisory Nov 14, 2024

ASISTA Notes: USCIS Stakeholder Engagement with AILA VAWA, U, T Committee (11/14/2024)

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

he Federal District Court granted Ms. Soto Alvarado’s Motion

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
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
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
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
Immigrant Legal Resource Center Practice advisory Apr 18, 2024

AILA Stakeholder Meeting Notes with USCIS

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) VAWA, U, and T National Committee coordinated a stakeholder meeting with USCIS on November 16, 2023. USCIS was represented by officials from the Office of Policy & Strategy, Service Center Operations, the Vermont Service Center, and the Public Engagement Division. These notes were compiled by VAWA, U, and T National Committee members and reflect USCIS responses to questions posed by the committee and partners. USCIS’s official responses to the

VAWA / U / T USCIS Direct PDF
Immigrant Legal Resource Center Practice advisory Feb 5, 2024

Using the T Visa Law Enforcement Resource Guide

In October 2021, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its T Visa Law Enforcement Resource Guide. The guide, published alongside updated guidance on T visas in the USCIS Policy Manual (USCIS-PM), advises law enforcement agencies on providing T visa certifications, a crucial form of evidence in T visa applications. This practice advisory gives an overview of the resource guide and how practitioners can utilize it to advocate for law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement

Consular practice VAWA / U / T Evidence and procedure USCIS Direct PDF
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
NIWAP Library Amicus brief Oct 11, 2023

Geidy Mavely Soto Alvarado And Mauricio Antonio Garcia Soto v. Merrick Garland

Geidy Mavely Soto Alvarado And Mauricio Antonio Garcia Soto v. Merrick Garland (June 13 2023) US District Court of Rhode Island. NIWAP, represented by Crowell and Moring, led an amicus brief that was joined by Harvard Law School professors and clinics, the ACLU, the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and all of the major women shelters in Rhode Island. This brief argued that USCIS had misinterpreted VAWA 2000 amendments that were designed to allow VAWA self petitioners to divorce,

Removal defense VAWA / U / T USCIS Federal district court Direct PDF