This practice alert builds upon our previous practice advisory, “Advocating for Clients under the Biden Administration’s Interim Enforcement Priorities,” and provides key information, takeaways, and practice tips for advocating with OPLA.
On Friday, June 4, ICE issued a new prosecutorial discretion memo for ICE attorneys in charge of prosecuting deportation and bond cases. These ICE attorneys work within an office known as OPLA, or the Office of the Principal Legal Adviser. The new...
This two-day training discusses how to best represent clients with convictions in immigration court.
On July 9, 2020, NIPNLG published a Practice Alert examining the intersection of the criminal bars proposed in those regulations. In the latter half of 2020, final versions of all three proposed rules were issued, and were subsequently challenged in...
Criminal convictions often carry immigration consequences, including mandatory detention and deportation. A conviction is when a criminal court or jury decides that a person is guilty of a crime or a person pleads guilty to having committed a crime...
This practice advisory discusses the origins of realistic probability in immigration law, national case law on realistic probability, and litigation issues currently before the immigration agencies and federal courts.
This practice advisory discusses strategies for obtaining immigration relief as part of a settlement agreement with the government to resolve a lawsuit for damages brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) based on torts committed by agents of...
This practice advisory is intended to assist individuals seeking damages, stays of deportation, and long-term immigration relief based on medical abuse suffered at ICDC. This practice advisory explains how to determine eligibility and file...