Best Practices for Representing Unaccompanied Minor Clients Before the Asylum Office (Webinar)
Wednesday March 03 , 2010
- By: Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
- CLE Credit
- Location:
Your Office, CAMap: maps.google.com
- Contact:
- Website: www.ilrc.org
This webinar will provide practice tips for handling children's asylum claims in light of the changes created by the TVPRA, which gave CIS initial jurisdiction over all unaccompanied minors' asylum claims. We will cover developing relationships with the asylum office and transferring cases from EOIR to CIS, creating and submitting materials in support of children's claims, preparing for and attending the asylum interview, and interview follow up -- including transfer back to EOIR if need be. Perspectives from attorneys as well as child advocates working with asylum seekers will be provided, as will pointers obtained from CIS. This training will focus primarily on procedural rather than substantive issues; it may be ideal for those who have presented children's asylum claims before EOIR but are new to practice before the asylum office.



