Practice resources
Search immigration practice advisories, sample filings, manuals, brief banks, and government guidance from trusted practitioner sources.
This practice advisory discusses how the Child Status Protection Act protects children of asylees and refugees through the immigration process, including the asylum application, the Form I-730, and adjustment.
The immigration courts’ unprecedented backlogs are creating procedural and substantive challenges for attorneys trying to comply with the One-Year Filing Deadline (OYFD) in asylum cases. This Practice Advisory discusses strategies and procedures for complying with the OYFD.
This Practice Advisory is designed to assist attorneys without significant expertise in immigration law in determining whether individuals seeking Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) might be eligible for immigration benefits that are more lasting and concrete than DACA. The forms of relief discussed in this Practice Advisory include adjustment of status, U and T visas, asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, and more. The appendix includes a questionnaire that may be helpful in ide
Public landing page for Immigration Equality's practice advisories and alerts, with emphasis on LGBTQ and HIV-related immigration issues.
NIWAP's amicus brief bank organized by topic, with collections covering VAWA, U visa, SIJS, gender-based asylum, and related issues.
Ready to Stay directory of public asylum and removal-defense resources assembled for practitioners and pro bono volunteers.
Acacia Center for Justice – Acacia Practitioner Hub from Human Rights First PALA Library.
This is a practice alert as your client may be required to pay a fee for their pending application for asylum, withholding of removal and for protection under the Convention Against Torture in light of recent legislation. These new fees are for: initial applications and for applications that have been pending for more than one year, including those in the asylum backlog.
Acacia Center for Justice practitioner hub containing legal resources for immigration practitioners and advocates, including a link to Acacia’s Habeas Bridge Project template bank intended to support practitioners challenging unlawful immigration detention, with a focus on habeas law in California and the Ninth Circuit.
This chart contains sample questions and goals for a direct examination in Immigration Court based on a fictional client.
Model immigration court filings prepared by Human Rights First attorney Andrew Feinberg in January 2025. These model filings reflect some of the most common documents and motions an attorney will file in support of a client’s asylum case in immigration court. The materials are intended to be reviewed simultaneously, as part of a single fictional case for a Guatemalan indigenous asylum claim in removal proceedings in the Ninth Circuit. The documents consist of the following:
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