IDP has updated our two-page checklist which summarizes the criminal bars to removability (inadmissibility and deportability) as well as criminal bars to citizenship and applications such as Asylum/Withholding of Removal, 212(H) waivers, Cancellation of Removal for LPRs and Non-LPRs, VAWA cancellation, DACA renewal, and TPS. This is a national resource and has INA cites and relevant case cites hyperlinked throughout … Read more »
The Post-Conviction Relief State Summary Chart provides an overview of relevant vehicles and deadlines in select jurisdictions. When an immigrant client faces adverse immigration consequences based on a prior criminal conviction, one strategy for immigration counsel is to investigate the possibility of post-conviction relief. This chart provides a starting point for that investigation. Last updated April 2022.
These charts list common criminal offenses, and whether they might trigger an immigration ground of removability (and thereby subject an immigrant to deportation): New York (Updated January 1, 2025) Alabama (Updated March 2017) Arizona (Updated June 2016) California (Updated March 2019) Connecticut (Updated May 2017) Louisiana (Updated September 2019) Massachusetts (Updated May 2018) North Carolina (Updated 2017) Pennsylvania (Updated September 2023) Tennessee (Updated May 2019) … Read more »
Download: “Particularly Serious Crime” Bars on Asylum and Withholding of Removal: Case Law Standards and Sample Determinations
This chart is separated by capital letter category which relates to the relevant subsection of the statutory definition of “aggravated felony.” Within each letter category, the cases are grouped by jurisdiction beginning with the Supreme Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals and continuing through the Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Federal District Courts (and by reverse chronological order … Read more »