T Visas: A Critical Immigration Option for Survivors of Human Trafficking-NEW!
This publication contains a step-by-step guide for completing Form i-914 T nonimmigrant status applications, a comprehensive overview of the requirements for T adjustment of status, the latest information for assisting T nonimmigrants or their family members who seek to travel or enter the United States on a T visa, and guidance for recognizing secondary trauma and tips for ensuring self-care.
Regular - Book or PDF: $180 / Book & PDF: $220
Nonprofit - Book or PDF: $125 / Book & PDF: $165
Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship: The Essential Legal Guide-NEW!
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center continues to produce the most accessible comprehensive guide on citizenship and naturalization laws and process in the country. This indispensable guide thoroughly addresses the entire process of representing a naturalization applicant from the initial client meeting through the oath of allegiance. Included in this guide are sample forms, Immigration Service memos, practice guides, and many other critical tools for both private attorneys and practitioners working with community-based organizations.
Regular - Book or PDF: $380 / Book & PDF: $420
Nonprofit - Book or PDF: $195 / Book & PDF: $235
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and Other Immigration Options for Children & Youth-NEW!
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and Other Immigration Options for Children and Youth is an essential guide for those representing the increased number of unaccompanied minors who have migrated to the United States in recent years, as well as those representing immigrant youth who were brought to the United States at a young age and know no other home. In particular, this publication provides background and guidance on the protections, procedures, and immigration options for immigrant children, including unaccompanied minors under the TVPRA. It has a special focus on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), with an in-depth discussion of the legal requirements for SIJS eligibility, including “one-parent” SIJS cases, and step-by-step guidance for representing SIJS-eligible youth in both affirmative and defensive applications.
Regular - Book or PDF: $250 / Book & PDF: $290
Nonprofit - Book or PDF: $155 / Book & PDF: $195
A Guide for Immigration Advocates-NEW!
The Guide is a practical and essential tool for beginning immigration attorneys, paralegals, BIA accredited representatives, and nonprofit community-based organizations. It provides a comprehensive detailed overview of the law that is both practical and easy to use. More than a compilation of immigration law topic articles, it’s a how-to manual containing clearly worded explanations of each subject and includes sample applications, charts, and examples to illustrate the concepts. This book is a real time-saver for attorneys and paralegals, whether working for a community organization or in private practice.
Regular - Book or PDF: $440 / Book & PDF: $480
Nonprofit - Book or PDF: $295 / Book & PDF: $335
Essentials of Asylum Law – NEW!
Combining up-to-date case law, innovative legal arguments on currently developing issues, and decades of expertise from accomplished practitioners who have successfully represented clients through the years, Essentials of Asylum Law offers an expansive explanation of the legal theories and rules underpinning current asylum claims. The manual explores each of the legal elements of an asylum claim, beginning with the definition of persecution and the requirements to demonstrate a “well-founded fear” of persecution. An extensive discussion of the five enumerated grounds follows, including a detailed overview of the nexus requirement and current formulations of particular social groups.
Book or PDF: $195 Regular / $140 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $235 Regular / $180 Nonprofit
Motions to Suppress: Protecting the Constitutional Rights of Immigrants in Removal Proceedings – NEW!
Motions to Suppress: Protecting the Constitutional Rights of Immigrants in Removal Proceedings is a critical reference book for immigration practitioners. Practical and informative, it covers the relevant sources of law needed to exclude unlawfully obtained evidence in immigration court, provides sample motions to suppress, and addresses the rights of detained immigrants.
Book or PDF: $205 Regular / $125 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $245 Regular / $165 Nonprofit
Families & Immigration: A Practical Guide
An essential tool for practitioners who assist in all aspects of family-sponsored immigration, this guide is designed for everyday practice by new and seasoned immigration attorneys, immigration paralegals, community-based organizations, and family immigration advocates. Completely updated, this new edition guides you step-by-step through the process of filing a family-based visa petition, an adjustment of status, immigrant visa application or any other related form or application.
Book or PDF: $225 Regular / $155 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $265 Regular / $195 Nonprofit
FOIA Requests and Other Background Checks
Introducing the 1st edition of a comprehensive resource about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and other background checks. This one-stop- guide for information about why, when, where, and how to file background checks in immigration cases is ideal for new or seasoned legal professionals. This resource provides in-depth discussions of complex legal and procedural issues in language that is easy to understand. It offers complete step-by-step instructions for filling out FOIA and background check requests.
Book or PDF: $180 Regular / $125 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $220 Regular / $165 Nonprofit
Removal Defense: Defending Immigrants in Immigration Court
Most immigrants face removal proceedings without an attorney or authorized representative. The outcomes with and without a representative are grossly disparate. The 2nd edition of this comprehensive guide is designed to build the capacity of immigration practitioners who assist individuals in immigration court proceedings, and provide more immigrants with a meaningful chance at justice. New in this edition: A chapter dedicated to Motions to Reopen, expanded how-to section on attending a master calendar hearing, and legal updates throughout, including challenges to prolonged detention and the categorical approach used to analyze criminal convictions.
Book or PDF: $215 Regular / $150 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $255 Regular / $190 Nonprofit
The VAWA Manual
Completely revised, the 7th edition of this comprehensive guide for advocates working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence includes VAWA self-petitioning requirements and process, adjustment of status, inadmissibility grounds and waivers, removal proceedings and motions to reopen VAWA, cancellation of removal, conditional permanent residency, consular processing, and much more!
Book or PDF: $235 Regular / $155 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $275 Regular / $195 Nonprofit
Hardship in Immigration Law: How to Prepare Winning Applications for Hardship Waivers and Cancellation of Removal
One of our best-selling titles, this manual describes in detail the different standards applicable in hardship law and factors involved in that analysis. This guide demonstrates how to work with clients to elicit and to convey the information that will win a hardship claim. The appendices include sample non-LPR cancellation cover letters, sample waiver cover letters, sample provisional waiver materials, declaration guides, sample support letters, FOIA practice advisory and sample FOIA requests, provisional waiver practice advisory, summary of hardship case law, and many other essential tools.
Book or PDF: $240 Regular / $170 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $280 Regular / $210 Nonprofit
Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients
Protect your permanent resident clients from removal under a deportation or inadmissibility ground using the expert analysis and framework for representation contained in this manual. Designed as a “how to” manual, we provide clear, concise and detailed explanations of the grounds of removal permanent residents are most likely to face; when the grounds of inadmissibility and deportation do and don’t apply; how to argue that they don’t apply, and the immigration remedies available for each.
Book or PDF: $220 Regular / $150 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $260 Regular / $190 Nonprofit
Parole in Immigration Law
We created the first comprehensive publication about parole in immigration law to give practitioners a one-stop guide to the legal requirements of the different types of parole. Parole in Immigration Law thoroughly addresses the three main forms of parole: advance parole, humanitarian parole, and parole-in-place. This resource provides an in-depth discussion of complex legal issues in easily accessible language, complete with a how-to guide for filling out the parole application form. The appendices include sample parole applications and cover letters; USCIS, ICE, and CBP memoranda on parole issues; a sample RFE; an advance parole cover letter template; travel checklist; and other tools for private attorneys and nonprofit practitioners exploring parole as an option.
Book or PDF: $210 Regular / $145 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $250 Regular / $185 Nonprofit
The U Visa
The updated 5th edition guides you through the entire process of handling an immigration case for a U visa applicant – from eligibility screening for U nonimmigrant status to communicating about the wait list and deferred action through adjustment of status, to assisting eligible family members and helping U nonimmigrants travel. Updates to this edition include:
· Detailed updates on the new U wait list and deferred action policies and procedures
· Updates and flowcharts for assisting U nonimmigrant clients with travel issues, parole & consular processing Information on identifying and helping workplace victims of crime & working with the Dept. of Labor, EEOC or CA DFEH for certification
· Updated information and developments related to U adjustment of status applications
Book or PDF: $275 Regular / $195 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $315 Regular / $235 Nonprofit
DACA: The Essential Legal Guide
DACA: The Essential Legal Guide is a comprehensive and practice-oriented overview of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This edition reflects new information and clarifications that have emerged during the DACA program’s implementation, provides in-depth analysis of criminal and juvenile issues, and expands on what applicants can do after they receive DACA.
Book or PDF: $150 Regular / $105 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $190 Regular / $145 Nonprofit
LBGTQ Immigration: Ensuring Equality for All
The first LGBTQ immigration-focused publication, this new resource is ideal for immigration practitioners interested in developing their cultural competency and legal expertise in the area of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) immigration. Confronted with the same cumbersome immigration system as other immigrants, individuals who identify as LGBTQ often face unique challenges. Understanding how an LGBTQ identity influences an individual’s immigration experience is crucial to ensuring that LGBTQ immigrants receive culturally competent services that adequately meet their needs.
Book or PDF: $100 Regular / $70 Nonprofit
Book & PDF: $135 Regular / $105 Nonprofit
Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit with 2013 Case Update
This 1400-page manual, often called “the Bible” in this area of law, shows step-by-step how to identify, analyze, and defend against the adverse immigration consequences of criminal charges and convictions.
2013 Case Update PDF only: $100 Regular / $60 Nonprofit
2-Volume Book or PDF: $330 Regular / $265 Nonprofit
2-Volume Book & PDF: $380 Regular / $305 Nonprofit
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