Mapping out Legal Services for Separated Families
This resource was created by Vera in partnership with the American Bar Association (ABA) and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) to provide a critical link between the social services organizations working with separated families and the immigration legal service providers throughout the country that have affirmatively expressed capacity to provide free legal service to those families right now. In order to search this information by certain parameters (e.g. state, type of organization, etc.), you can use Filter Views (Data>Filter views).
SAFE Cities Webinar on Advanced Crim-Imm by Brooklyn Defenders Services
This webinar, produced by the Brooklyn Defenders for the SAFE Cities Network, covers the basics of categorical analysis of criminal convictions, and related topics like divisibility, “realistic probability,” and modified categorical analysis. This webinar covers how to use the categorical approach to challenge criminal grounds of removability and bars to relief, and strategic tips for briefing, research, and preserving creative arguments for appeal.
Pro Bono Referral Resource Guide
This resource, created by Vera's Unaccompanied Children Program, contains a list of legal service organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal assistance and representation for unaccompanied children seeking immigration representation.
PSGs and Bars in UC Asylum Claims: Strategies and Best Practices
This presentation, produced by the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) for Vera's Unaccompanied Children Program, provides an overview of asylum, including particular social groups (PSGs), tips on how to build and defend a winning PSG, and the mandatory bars to asylum.
Asylum Law in the 5th Circuit
This presentation, created by Children's Immigration Law Academy (CILA), comprises an overview of asylum law in the 5th Circuit.
Immigration Court Practice: Procedure, Motions and Updates
This webinar, produced by Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) for Vera's Unaccompanied Children Program, covers immigration court practice rules, motions in immigration court, and recent updates regarding unaccompanied children from the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
CLINIC Newsletter for the Vera Network - October 2017
This resource, created by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) for Vera's Unaccompanied Children Program, is a newsletter highlighting noteworthy policy and legislative changes affecting UC that occurred before October 2017.