Adjustment of Status: Strategies and Options

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Pacific Time (US & Canada)
  • By: Immigrant Legal Resource Center
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  • Source: CALegalAdvocates (Decommissioned) > CALegalAdvocates.org
Topics:
  • Webinar
  • Immigration

For those of you already familiar with family basics, this webinar will focus on the adjustment of status process for those pursuing permanent resident status through a family petition and asylum here in the United States. This webinar will explore the various pathways to adjustment and red flags. We will compare asylum adjustment, 245(i) eligibility and traditional adjustment under 245(a), as well as strategies to establishing adjustment eligibility.

Presenters:

Erin Quinn

Erin Quinn has been an immigration defense attorney for over 10 years and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. At the ILRC, Erin's work focuses on building capacity of organizations and practitioners to assist immigrants. She conducts trainings and provides legal expertise on immigration law through ILRC's Attorney of the Day program. In addition, Erin has contributed to numerous ILRC publications as author or editor, including Removal Defense: Defending Immigrants in Immigration Court; Essentials of Asylum and many others. Prior to coming to the ILRC, Erin represented immigrants in all aspects of their immigration matters, with an emphasis on removal defense and complex cases. She was owner and attorney at her own firm for 5 years after defending immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and teaching courses as a lecturer at CSU Eastbay. Originally from Fresno, California, Erin loves teaching, language and travel. She lived in Romania for over two years as a Peace Corps volunteer and worked in Hungary as a teacher trainer. In addition she has traveled, studied and taught in Central America, South Africa and Europe. Erin is on the Advisory Council for the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), in which she serves as Pro Bono Coordinator and Liaison for Consumer Protection. She is a member of the California Bar.

  • CLE Credit Comments: 1.5 CA
  • Contact:
    Helen Leung
    Immigrant Legal Resource Center
    415-255-9499, ext. 539
  • Website: www.ilrc.org