In this webinar, the faculty will discuss eligibility criteria, best practices on screening clients for labor-based deferred action and permanent relief, counseling clients on the risks of submitting an application, navigating tricky eligibility...
This Practice Advisory is an update on the FAQs NIPNLG released in October 2023. Following advocacy by NIPNLG with USCIS concerning some unclear language in its Guidance, USCIS updated its instructions on February 12, 2024. This updated Practice...
El 16 de enero de 2024, el gobernador de Luisiana, Jeff Landry, emitió una orden ejecutiva titulada "Identificación, cuantificación y mitigación de los efectos adversos de la inmigración ilegal en Luisiana". Este explicador comunitario explicará el...
In August 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out massive workplace raids on chicken processing plants across Central Mississippi, arresting 680 Indigenous, Latino, and immigrant poultry workers. This explainer addresses the...
On January 8, 2024, NIPNLG submitted comments on USCIS's proposal to extend it form I-912, Request for a Fee Waiver, without revisions. NIPNLG called upon USCIS to simplify the 11-page form, make it available in common languages, and make it...
On January 16, 2024, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry issued an executive order titled “Identifying, Quantifying, and Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Illegal Immigration of Louisiana.” This community explainer explains the memo and answers some...
This webinar will address common issues of conflicts, confidentiality, communication, competency, and the duty of candor to the tribunal. The speakers will pose common fact patterns as hypotheticals and discuss solutions that are best for the clients...
On December 1, 2023, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential decision, Matter of M‑R‑M‑S‑, 28 I&N Dec. 757 (BIA 2023), which purports to narrow the circumstances in which asylum seekers can prove that their membership in a family-based...
The National Immigration Project, Detention Watch Network, the Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition, and RFK Human Rights released an ‘Anthology of Abuse’ on the still operational Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana. The report...
This accessible guide, created by Unemployed Workers United, the National Immigration Project, Tulane University Immigrant Rights Clinic, and the Arriba Las Vegas Workers Center, walks through five steps to apply for labor-based deferred action...