IDP, along with ILRC, co-sponsored a two-day naturalization training for attorneys and immigration service providers in New York City on February 21-22, 2013. During this training, IDP led a four-hour workshop on how a criminal incident can affect a naturalization application and why some naturalization applicants could be placed in deportation proceedings based on contact with the criminal justice system. … Read more »
IDP and the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) are co-sponsoring a legal clinic for people eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (see DACA guidelines here) at NYIC’s office on September 24 from 6p to 9p. For more information, contact info[at]immigrantdefenseproject[dot]org.
IDP co-sponsors the New York Crimes and Immigration Seminar at NYU on September 22, 2012. Please join us for a cutting edge crim-imm training and discussion, featuring a session on Post-Conviction Relief (PCR) Padilla developments. Further details and registration here: https://nortontooby.com/content/new-york-crimes-immigration-seminar-fall-2012#node-18849
The Defending Immigrants Partnership (DIP) held its Sixth National Training on Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Denver in May 2012. DIP Partners IDP, ILRC and NIPNLG trained 126 attorneys from public defender offices in 31 states on crim-imm law, advising immigrant clients, strategies to avoid deportability and institutionalizing Padilla in defender offices. Attendees were nominated by their chief defender or … Read more »
LEARN HOW TO SUBMIT PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION REQUESTS Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6 to 9 p.m. 137-139 West 25th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY The New York Immigration Coalition, New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Immigrant Defense Project would like to invite your members to a training on submitting prosecutorial discretion applications. This training is … Read more »
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Defending Immigrants Partnership present three new webinars providing IMMIGRATION LAW ESSENTIALS for defense lawyers. Join online or in-person in DC. Register here.
IDP and Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, in coordination with the New York Immigration coalition, are conducting Know-Your-Rights workshops throughout New York on S-Comm and similar programs. We’ll also be doing a Train-the-Trainers curriculum for interested workshop participants. For more information, contact Lili Salmeron at [email protected].