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Join CILA’s Working Group! If you wish to attend, please sign up for the accompanying listserv. Our listserv is open to anyone at a legal non-profit in the US working to support children facing deportation.

Webinar Description:

The ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) invites you to join us as experts from the American Immigration Council (AIC) and National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) present on record requests in the context of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) and SIJS-based adjustment of status (AOS). We will provide procedural guidance, practical tips, and strategy considerations for ORR record requests, FBI background checks, and FOIA requests through the lens of an unaccompanied child seeking SIJS and AOS.

This training is geared towards anyone at a legal service provider who works with unaccompanied children seeking SIJS and AOS, including attorneys and legal staff. All are welcome!

Speakers will include:
Emily Creighton, Legal Director, Transparency, AIC
Raul Pinto, Senior Staff Attorney, AIC
Theodora (Dora) Saclarides, Project Coordinator, NIJC

This course is pending approval for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.5 participatory hours of credit.

Join CILA’s Working Group! If you wish to attend, please sign up for the accompanying listserv. Our listserv is open to anyone at a legal non-profit in the US working to support children facing deportation.