AILA 2009 Annual Conference; June 3-6, 2009, Las Vegas, NV
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(Annual 09) Nonimmigrants: Key Concepts to Analyze FirstSession ID: AC09-021 Product Type: Downloadable This session will provide an overview of the basic concepts, rules and procedures pertaining to nonimmigrant visa status. Jeffrey A. Devore, David P. Berry, Michelle Funk, Alexander G. Rojas... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Immigrants: Visa Preference System and Acquisition of Immigrant StatusSession ID: AC09-022 Product Type: Downloadable This session will provide an overview of the numerical limits of the immigrant visa preference system as reported in the Visa Bulletin and the basic concepts, rules and procedures pertaining to adjustment of status and consular processing. Charina P. Garc... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Nonimmigrant Visas: Part ISession ID: AC09-023 Product Type: Downloadable This panel will provide a brief and basic overview of common nonimmigrant visa categories. The program will cover a mix of employment and non-employment-based categories. Stuart J. Reich, Michael Nowlan, Barbara Wong... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Nonimmigrant Visas: Part IISession ID: AC09-024 Product Type: Downloadable This panel will provide an overview of common employment-based nonimmigrant visa categories and strategies for choosing a category. Bennett Savitz, Kyle D. Sherman, Tara L. Vance... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Open ForumSession ID: AC09-045 Product Type: Downloadable Fausta Maria Albi, Silvia Romo Graves, Maureen Dugan, Daniel Tanciar... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Open ForumSession ID: AC09-046 Product Type: Downloadable Amy L. Peck, T. Douglas Stump, Juan P. Osuna, Michael C. McGoings, MaryBeth Keller, Michael J. Creppy, Louis Ruffino... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Bad Behavior in Vegas: Overview of Criminal Grounds of Inadmissibility and DeportabilitySession ID: AC09-072 Product Type: Downloadable This panel will review the definition of conviction and the criminal grounds of inadmissibility and deportability. The panel will also focus on practice tips for challenging the criminal grounds of inadmissibility and deportability. Scott D. Pollock, Davi... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Overview of Inadmissibility and Deportability DefensesSession ID: AC09-073 Product Type: Downloadable This panel is geared toward providing an overview of strategies for admission and relief from removal for nonimmigrants, immigrants, refugees, and asylees. It will introduce issues involving the burden of proof, including evidence of the existence of a co... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Hit Me! What Are the Odds of Securing an NIV Waiver for Your Corporate Client’s Employee?Session ID: AC09-074 Product Type: Downloadable This session will focus on the complex intricacies of, and conflicts that may arise in, securing your client's employee an NIV waiver. The panel will also spotlight particular strategies and procedural issues to provide members with an educated understand... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) The H-1B Cap: Do You Have Better Odds In Vegas or Vermont?Session ID: AC09-075 Product Type: Downloadable So long as the H-1B cap stays at its current limit, applying for an H-1B will remain a gamble. This panel will discuss cap-exempt employers and employees; alternative categories; ethical considerations of using alternative categories when the H-1B is the ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Do You Always Win With 21?: Strategic Counseling on AC21Session ID: AC09-076 Product Type: Downloadable Relying on hypotheticals and participant interaction, this panel will explore the specifics and the nuances of AC21, drawing on agency guidance, patterns of adjudication, and real world situations. A. James Vazquez-Azpiri, Susan C. Ellison, Naomi Schorr... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Do New TN Rules Favor the House?Session ID: AC09-077 Product Type: Downloadable Practitioners with extensive TN and TN-2 experience will lead a conversation about the current TN environment, implementation of the new TN regulations, and TN issues related to specific professions, consular posts and ports of entry. Roberto D. Caballero... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) At the Casino With L-1s and Other GamblersSession ID: AC09-078 Product Type: Downloadable The L-1 visa has its own quirks and personality. This advanced panel will look at the unique features and every day issues that arise when preparing an L-1 petition, including: what documentation does the transferring entity need to prove that it is or wi... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) You Don’t Have To Be a Star, Baby: Artists, Entertainers & PerformersSession ID: AC09-079 Product Type: Downloadable The concept of "extraordinary ability" has a variety of meanings within USCIS regulations. While in the context of business and science it refers to "those at the top of their field," in the entertainment industry, it has a lower threshold, referring to t... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Unlawful Presence: What Happens When You Have Stayed At the Party Too LongSession ID: AC09-080 Product Type: Downloadable This advanced panel will discuss the issues surrounding unlawful presence, how it is interpreted, applied and often misapplied. The complicated patchwork of agency memoranda make this panel a must for every immigration practitioner. Maureen O'Sullivan, Ca... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) What Happened in Vegas, Was Supposed to Stay There! Waivers in Family CasesSession ID: AC09-081 Product Type: Downloadable When those oops, omissions and other mistakes come back to haunt you. This panel will discuss common scenarios in family-based cases that may require a waiver. Gloria A. Goldman, Rolando Rex Velasquez, Raul E. Godinez, Lourdes Santos Tancinco... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) The Wheel of Misfortune: Don’t Count On Luck When Preparing I-601 WaiversSession ID: AC09-082 Product Type: Downloadable Preparing winning I-601 waiver applications can be a very difficult task and attorneys should be ready to analyze every factor possible to address the hardship to family members should the beneficiary be forced to leave the U.S. or is outside the U.S. wai... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) When a Marriage Becomes a Risky Business: VAWA Part ISession ID: AC09-083 Product Type: Downloadable This first session of this two-part program will move from the basics of VAWA to the more difficult issues of the day. From the beginning of a lawyer/client relationship on a VAWA case, dealing with issues of trust and safety, to the final interview, this... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Families in Crisis: VAWA Part IISession ID: AC09-084 Product Type: Downloadable Explore the fine details of ethics, inadmissibility and removal defense in the VAWA context. This second session will delve into the complexities of marriage/relationships and how best to protect your client from the players in the system. Veronica T. Thr... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Maintaining Your Ties and Preserving Permanent ResidenceSession ID: AC09-085 Product Type: Downloadable This session will evaluate the complex issues involved in determining whether to preserve or surrender permanent resident status. Legal advice often varies depending on the client's current situation and future plans. Don't forget to count the number of d... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Immigration Court Workshop Part I: The New Immigration Court Practice Manual & Other Court RulesSession ID: AC09-086 Product Type: Downloadable Learn more about the Immigration Court Practice Manual (ICPM) since its implementation in 2008. Hear about important updates, continued problems with ICPM, strategic use of the manual, and the various burdens (proof, persuasion, and presentation). Learn a... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Overview of Grounds of Inadmissibility and Deportability: Issues for Nonimmigrants, Immigrants, Refugees, and AsyleesSession ID: AC09-071 Product Type: Downloadable This panel will address basic definitions related to "admission" and arriving aliens and the differences between inadmissibility and deportability with topics for all practitioners. Ethical considerations, including the duty of candor, will be discussed. ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Ante Up: I-864 Affidavit of SupportSession ID: AC09-070 Product Type: Downloadable This panel is designed to introduce the fundamentals of preparing an affidavit of support. It will go through the basics of the form, obligations, and what to do when the sponsor doesn't meet the federal poverty guidelines. Miko A. Tokuhama-Olsen, Judith ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) An Overview of Family-Based ImmigrationSession ID: AC09-069 Product Type: Downloadable This session will provide an overview of the family-based immigrant visa categories, who qualifies and the effects of changes on the family relationship. This panel will also go through the various roles of each agency in the family-based immigration proc... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Fundamentals: H-1B and L-1: I-129 Preparation and Supporting DocumentsSession ID: AC09-047 & 048 Product Type: Downloadable This fundamental program will address how to complete the I-129 form when preparing initial and extension L-1 and H-1B petitions. The panelists will walk through the I-129 form section by section, as well as review what documents should be included with e... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Cashing in Your Chips: E Visa IssuesSession ID: AC09-049 & 050 Product Type: Downloadable This is an intermediate-level panel that explores various requirements and issues that arise in preparing and submitting E visa applications at the U.S. consulate. Stephen Yale-Loehr, Henry J. Chang, Paul L. Samartin, Teri A. Simmons, Jeffrey Gorsky... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Fundamentals: Procedure at Immigration Court 101Session ID: AC09-051 & 052 Product Type: Downloadable This introductory program is geared toward practitioners with limited or no experience with immigration court proceedings. Practitioners will learn what to expect when they appear before an immigration judge at the master calendar and individual hearing. ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) In Vegas, Odds Are Not Probabilities—In Immigration, 90 Days Is Not Three Months: Complex Issues in Time Periods, Dates and Filing DeadlinesSession ID: AC09-053 & 054 Product Type: Downloadable Do not leave your client's future to a roll of the dice. Not knowing how to count time periods and determine deadlines in the immigration field is like playing roulette. If 30 days for the RFE lands on Sunday, when must you submit? Your high-flying, const... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Know When to Hold ‘Em and Know When to Fold ‘Em—Corporate Changes: Immigration Status and OptionsSession ID: AC09-055 & 056 Product Type: Downloadable Immigration lawyers are typically advised of a corporate change only after the fact and are then left to play the hand they have been dealt relating to foreign national employees who have been affected by the change. How can you try to prevent this situat... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) LGBT Issues: Some Things Should Not Be Left to ChanceSession ID: AC09-057 & 058 Product Type: Downloadable Panelists will discuss issues that arise in the representation of LGBT clients, specifically taking a look at the pending legislation that could change the mainstream's idea of "family." Noemi E. Masliah, Mark R. Barr, Scott C. Titshaw... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) The Rules of the Game: The Categorical and Modified Categorical ApproachesSession ID: AC09-059 & 060 Product Type: Downloadable This panel will prepare the experienced practitioner to deal with evolving judicial approaches to analyzing criminal convictions. An attorney who understands how the categorical and modified categorical approaches are evolving can better defend the client... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Becoming a Pit Boss: Controlling Your NIV Responses to RFEs, NOIDs, and NOIRsSession ID: AC09-061 Product Type: Downloadable Why do I keep getting the same old RFEs for well-settled issues? It seems as though "standard" or "slam-dunk" cases are receiving more and more RFEs, NOIDs and NOIRs. This intermediate panel will cover key strategies and tactics in responding to these not... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Don’t Wager My Waiver: J-1 Waivers for Clinical PhysiciansSession ID: AC09-062 Product Type: Downloadable Every J-1 physician sponsored by ECFMG for clinical medical training is subject to the two-year home residency requirement. Many of these physicians are not ready to return home. The U.S. also needs these physicians to offset the severe shortage of physic... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Fundamentals: Preparing a Spousal Family-Based PetitionSession ID: AC09-063 Product Type: Downloadable This session will provide guidance on the steps to take to sponsor a spouse. It will start with the basics as to who can sponsor a spouse. It will then go through how to complete an I-130 petition and the documents to submit to USCIS. The panel will also ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Good Things Come in Small Packages: Issues Affecting Small BusinessesSession ID: AC09-064 Product Type: Downloadable This panel is designed to focus on the specific issues affecting small businesses in the NIV and IV contexts, particularly in light of the growing view of USCIS that small companies are not viable and do not qualify for NIVs and IVs. The panel will descri... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Playing the Trump Card: Federal Preemption: Challenging the Constitutionality of State Immigration LawsSession ID: AC09-065 Product Type: Downloadable In recent years state legislatures have increasingly taken an active role in legislating laws in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. This panel will explore the constitutionality of the states' role in regulating immigration and immigrants. ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Vegas Family Vacation: CSPASession ID: AC09-066 Product Type: Downloadable The Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) has changed what a "child" is in the context of certain immigration benefits. This panel will discuss the Act, practical tips and the inevitable bumps that arise. Charles Wheeler, Ruth K. Oh, Angela M. Bean... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) You Can’t Do That Here: Different Results in Different VenuesSession ID: AC09-067 Product Type: Downloadable Hear the experts discuss differential treatment of key issues in the various jurisdictions. Learn about those jurisdictions that accord certain issues more beneficial treatment while others deal with them more severely. Robert Pauw, Vikram K. Badrinath, ... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Play to Stay: Employment-Based ImmigrationSession ID: AC09-068 Product Type: Downloadable This session will cover the basic elements, concepts, and issues related to the employment-based immigrant preference categories. Robert S. Whitehill, Ethan E. Kaufman, Barbara H. Lutes... Learn More |
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(Annual 09) Immigration Court Workshop Part II: Using Motions to Win Your CaseSession ID: AC09-087 Product Type: Downloadable This is the second panel in a three-part series for practitioners who practice before the immigration courts. This session will explore the strategies attorneys can use to improve the odds of success for the client by filing motions to control the litigat... Learn More |
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