Full-day U Visa & VAWA Seminar

Wednesday June 15
2011

  • By: Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), ASISTA Immigration Assistance, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
  • Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Time Zone: Pacific Time (US & Canada)
  • CLE Credit
  • Location:
    Thomas Jefferson School of Law
    1155 Island Ave. (11th & Island)
    Rooms 227 & 229 (2nd Floor)
    San Diego, CA
  • Contact:
    Sai Suzuki
    Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
    415-255-9499 x789
  • Website: www.ilrc.org

Fee includes a CD-ROM of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center's U Visa Manual (a $150 value)

NOTE: If you are an employee of a California IOLTA organization, please contact Sai Suzuki at ssuzuki@ilrc.org for special IOLTA pricing.

REGISTER AT: www.ilrc.org/seminars
Deadline to Register: 6/6/11
Registration limited to 75 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.

Sponsored by Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), ASISTA Immigration Assistance, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, National Lawyers Guild Chapter of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, Inc. (SDVLP)

This seminar will provide two morning tracks, one for relative beginners, one for those who have done U visas and VAWA cases.

Beginning track (morning) will cover:
Overview of remedies for survivors of violence
Intensive introduction to U visas

Advanced track (morning) will cover:
Choosing the best relief
U derivative and family member issues
Cases in proceedings (VAWA as well as Us)

Afternoon session for all covers:
Working with law enforcement (certifications)
Overcoming inadmissibility
Adjustment of status
Consular processing

Speakers:
Susan Bowyer (Immigration Center for Women and Children - San Francisco)
Alisa Daubenspeck (Central American Resource Center - Los Angeles)
Jessica Farb (Immigration Center for Women and Children - San Francisco)
Ellen Kemp (National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild)
Sally Kinoshita (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
Sonia Parras (ASISTA Immigration Assistance)
Gail Pendleton (ASISTA Immigration Assistance)
Christine Popp (Immigrants' and Language Rights Center, Indiana Legal Services, Inc.)
Catherine Ward-Seitz (Bay Area Legal Aid)

Parking:
There is parking in the Padres Parkade, at the rate of $1 per hour (right across the street from the school).

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