Alternatives for CHNV Clients: Exploring Other Immigration Options
| Live Event Date: 12/12/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | No |
In early 2023, the Biden Administration implemented parole programs for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV). Beneficiaries are paroled into the United States for up to two years and allowed to apply for work authorization. On October 4, 2024, USCIS made it clear that there is no re-parole option for CHNV beneficiaries. The second Trump Administration is expected to terminate these programs altogether. However, this does not mean all CHNV program beneficiaries have no options. Our panel of experts will discuss available options for CHNV beneficiaries.
Featured Topics:
- Humanitarian parole
- Asylum
- The Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA)
- Family-based adjustment of status
- Employment-based options
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Heather D. Prendergast (DL), AILA Board of Governors, Cleveland, OH
Heather D. Prendergast, an Elected Director on AILA’s Board of Governors, currently serves as Chair of AILA’s Governance Committee. She is a member of Aljijakli, Kosseff & Prendergast, LLC, with offices in Cleveland, OH and New York, NY. Heather teaches Immigration & Nationality Law at Cleveland State University (CSU) College of Law. Her practice focuses on employment-based immigration for skilled professionals; complex removal defense; family-based immigration; waivers; humanitarian; naturalization and citizenship.
Mary M. O’Leary, USCIS High Impact Adjudications Assistance Committee, Petoskey, MI
Mary M. O’Leary is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law. She was admitted to the Illinois Bar in November of 1999. She has extensive experience with the Central American community. She received her Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago (1992) and a Bachelor of Arts from Alma College (1991). She is fluent in Spanish.
Camiel Becker, Oakland, CA
Camiel Becker is Senior Staff Attorney at Path2Papers, a nonprofit housed at Cornell Law School which aims to help DACA beneficiaries obtain employment-based visas. In his private practice as a solo practitioner, Camiel represents a number of companies and individuals in the employment-based green card and nonimmigrant visa processes. He has over twenty year of immigration law experience and is certified as a specialist in immigration law by the State Bar of California. He has advised many immigrants with DACA, TPS, and humanitarian parole about the process for transitioning to employment-based green cards and non-immigrant visas.
Arnav K. Dutt, Portland, OR
Arnav K. Dutt is a Staff Attorney at SOAR Immigration Legal Services, a Program of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. Primarily a removal defense attorney, he has gotten over 500 removal cases terminated or dismissed over the past 2.5 years. His practice focuses on complex parole issues; asylum; the Cuban Adjustment Act; TPS; and naturalization. He is a former state court public defender, and a graduate of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL.
Karen C. Tumlin, Los Angeles, CA
Karen C. Tumlin (she/her), Founder and Director, has been litigating class actions in the immigration context since 2005. Some of her most notable lawsuits include those to protect Latinos and others from state discrimination in 2010; a successful effort to prevent the Trump administration from terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the first challenge to the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban. Karen’s managed the successful Home is Here campaign, which resulted in a Supreme Court win for DACA recipients. Previously, Karen served as Legal Director for the National Immigration Law Center, where she built the litigation wing of the organization.