Advanced Issues in Acquisition & Derivation of Citizenship

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

During this advanced webinar, we will review some of the more complicated issues that arise when handling acquisition and derivation of citizenship claims. Using examples and our easy-to-read charts, we will explain step-by-step how to analyze some of the difficult legal requirements in determining eligibility for acquisition and derivation of citizenship, including legitimation issues, custody definitions, and parents' separation.

Presenters:

Eric Cohen

Has been with the ILRC since 1988 and has extensive experience training attorneys, paralegals, community advocates, and organizers on a variety of immigration law, immigrants' rights, and leadership development topics. Eric is a national expert on naturalization and citizenship law and is the primary author of the ILRC's manual entitled, Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship: The Essential Legal Guide for Legal Practitioners. Eric has served as a liaison between community groups and CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services) officials for the San Francisco Bay Area since 1994. Additionally, Eric helped develop ILRC's community model for effectively processing naturalization applications in groups and trained both legal workers and lay advocates in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and works with community organizers and others on voter education for naturalized citizens. Prior to working at the ILRC, Eric worked with the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Labor Immigrant Assistance Project where he worked on legalization and union organizing campaigns. He is conversant in Spanish.

Alison Kamhi

Alison is a dedicated immigrant advocate who brings significant experience in immigration law to the ILRC. At the ILRC, Alison provides technical assistance through the ILRC's attorney-of-the day program on a wide range of immigration issues, including consequences of criminal convictions for immigration purposes, immigration options for youth, removal defense strategy, and eligibility for immigration relief, including family-based immigration, U visas, VAWA, DACA, DAPA, cancellation of removal, asylum, and naturalization. She is the lead attorney on the ILRC's project on driver's licenses, and also conducts trainings on the requirements and process of naturalization. She also helps write and edit the ILRC's manuals on immigration law, including A Guide for Immigrant Advocates, Hardship in Immigration Law, Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and Other Immigration Options for Children and Youth, and The U Visa: Obtaining Status for Immigrant Victims of Crimes. Prior to the ILRC, Alison worked as a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic, where she supervised removal defense cases and immigrants' rights advocacy projects. Before Stanford, she represented abandoned and abused immigrant youth as a Skadden Fellow at Bay Area Legal Aid and at Catholic Charities Community Services in New York. While in law school, Alison worked at the UNHCR, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and Greater Boston Legal Services Immigration Unit. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Julia Gibbons in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Alison received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Stanford University. Alison enjoys playing the piano and traveling.

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