Cancellation of Removal: 42A, 42B, and VAWA
| Live Event Date: 05/20/2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
Removal defense has become paramount during the second Trump Administration. For foreign nationals who have lived in the United States for many years, cancellation of removal (COR) will be the principal (and most common) form of relief. Panelists will explore complicated issues in COR cases, including meeting the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard for non-lawful permanent resident (LPR) COR, the seven-year accrued residence for LPR COR, and the battery or extreme cruelty requirement for VAWA COR.
Featured Topics:
- Bars to COR, including criminal bars and good moral character
- Stop-time rule for convictions and service of compliant Notices to Appear (NTAs)
- Hardship standard: exceptional and extremely unusual vs. extreme hardship
- Qualifying relatives and aging out
- Bigamy in VAWA COR cases
- Discretion
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Nanya Y.M. Thompson (DL), San Diego, CA
Nanya Y.M. Thompson has been practicing immigration law as a solo attorney since 2015. Based in San Diego, California, her practice focuses on deportation defense in detained and non-detained settings, asylum and other humanitarian relief, family-based immigration, citizenship and naturalization, and other border-related issues. She has been a member of AILA since 2007 and served as AILA San Diego’s Chapter Chair from 2023 to 2024.
Annelise M. Araujo, AILA Removal Defense Section Steering Committee Chair/ICE Liaison Committee, Boston, MA
Annelise Araujo is the founder of Araujo & Fisher in Boston. She has 18 years of practice in removal, family, employment and humanitarian cases. She is the Chair of the AILA National Removal Defense Section, EOIR National committee liaison, and a past chair of the AILA New England chapter. She represents clients before Circuit Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, EOIR, the BIA and USCIS. She was named a Boston Magazine Top Lawyer for 2021-2024.
Christine M. Hernandez, Denver, CO
Christine M. Hernandez is a Partner at Hernandez & Associates, PC. Her practice focuses on family-based immigration, with a concentration in removal defense. Ms. Hernandez received her JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (2005).
Jonathan Willmoth, Kansas City, MO
Jonathan Willmoth, as a member of AILA since 2003, has served on several local and national AILA committees, and is a frequent author and speaker at both local and national AILA CLEs and conferences. As owner of Willmoth Immigration Law, LLC in Kansas City, Missouri, Jonathan’s practice focuses primarily on Removal Defense, U visas, Family-Based immigration, including Consular Visa Processing and waivers, as well as a variety of business-based and humanitarian immigration cases.
