A guide for immigration advocates
By: written by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Edition: 18th edition.
Publisher: Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law
Notes: "This edition was made possible through financial support from the Equal Access Fund, a program of the State Bar of California's Legal Services Trust Fund."

"By ILRC Staff Attorneys"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: unit 1. Overview of immigration and the law; title: unit 2. The advocate/client partnership and interviewing skills; title: unit 3. Grounds of inadmissibility and deportability; title: unit 4. Family visas : qualifying relationships eligibility for visas and the State Department Bulletin; title: unit 5. Family visas submitting the petition; marriage issues; VAWA; title: unit 6. Family visas : consular processing and waivers of inadmissibility and deportability; title: unit 7. Family visas : adjustment of status and conditional residence; title: unit 8. Legal research for immigration practice; title: unit 9. Legal writing and appeals; title: unit 10. The removal process; title: unit 11. Introduction to cancellation of removal under INA [section] 240A(b) ...; title: unit 12. Applying for cancellation of removal under INA [section] 240A(a) ...; title: unit 13. Ethical duties of paralegals; title: unit 14. Asylum; title: unit 15. Asylum and withholding of removal; statutory bars to asylum and restriction on removal; preparing a declaration; title: unit 16. U and T visas, registry, legalization, family unity, and discretionary relief; title: unit 17. Naturalization and acquisition and derivation of citizenship for children; title: unit 18. Identifying immigration solutions; title: unit 19. Constitutional and statutory rights of immigrants; title: unit 20. Negotiation skills and building community support; title: unit 21. History of immigration law and policy and employment-based immigration.