Figuring Out the Immigration Options: How to Screen at Workshops (Webinar)

  • Organization: Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation
  • Date Created: Thursday, August 06, 2015
  • Attachment(s): LINK

This webinar discusses questions that volunteers and non-legal staff can ask at workshops and events to flag potential eligibility for immigration benefits. It covers how to screen in a workshop setting; and, easy-to-understand questions that do not require legal expertise or analysis. In addition, the panel provides a brief update on Administrative Relief and the pending lawsuit. The panelists are Shiu-Ming Cheer, Immigration Attorney, National Immigration Law Center (NILC); Ilissa Mira, Staff Attorney, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC); and, Debbie Smith, Associate General Counsel/Immigration Law, Service Employees International Union (SEIU).