Past Seminars
For 50 years, the National Immigration Project has designed innovative legal strategies to defend immigrant rights. We are committed to sharing those strategies and innovations via Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminars, webinars, litigation meetings, and panels for attorneys and advocates. This page lists our past trainings with links to purchase for members and non-members.
1-11 Webinar Series Bundle. These recordings are eligible for CLE credit. The number of credits approved for these recorded sessions are based on those rewarded by the Washington State Bar. If you are barred outside of the Washington State, please...
2024 Spring Virtual CLE Seminar: Defending Recently Arrived Noncitizens & Noncitizens in ICE Custody
This annual seminar covers multiple topics, including an overview of Biden’s “Asylum Ban” and key litigation impacting the rights of certain recently arrived asylum seekers.
During this webinar, the presenters hope to demystify the removal-based bars and provide a framework of strategies for overcoming those bars. The webinar will include a discussion about seeking adjustment of status for Temporary Protected Status...
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 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...
This webinar will discuss post-departure motions to reopen and options for obtaining return after prevailing on a motion to reopen. The speakers will also discuss the role of parole, prosecutorial discretion requests for deported individuals, and...
This CLE will discuss how to create the best record before and during the individual hearing and how to use this complete record to your advantage on appeal.
During this webinar, the speakers will discuss the eligibility criteria, the evidentiary standard, procedural issues, and strategic considerations for VAWA cancellation.
This seminar covers multiple topics at the intersection of criminal and immigration law, including how advocates can make the most of the categorical approach methodology in their defense of immigrants with convictions.
Asylum law is constantly changing both substantively and procedurally. This webinar will focus on complex procedural issues that arise in asylum practice. The speakers will discuss topics including: representing principal and derivative applicants...