Current courses

Build stronger, more organized immigration legal services with this four-week case management webinar series. Learn how consistency, efficiency, and organization form the foundation of a successful immigration legal services program. Each session will walk through the life of a case by discussing basic components of effective case management techniques and strategies. Participants will learn best practices in intake procedures, case opening and acceptance, file maintenance, client communication, data and deadline tracking, case closing, and file retention and destruction. Our CLINIC team will help you think through techniques, strategies, and best practices in creating a case management policies and procedures manual that fits your program and ensures ethical, consistent, efficient, and organized immigration legal services program delivery. 

How do you determine whether your client is inadmissible? This four-part webinar series provides an in-depth examination of some of the most common grounds of inadmissibility. We will explore the following topics: fraud and false claims to citizenship, smuggling, unlawful presence and other immigration violations, crimes, health-based grounds, public charge, and national security grounds. In analyzing how these grounds are defined and interpreted, presenters will review when clients might fall into a statutory exception and when a particular inadmissibility ground can be waived. We will also offer basic tips on how to apply for the different types of waivers. Presenters will use case examples and hypothetical situations to demonstrate how to screen for inadmissibility and assess waiver eligibility.       

CLINIC's Legal Research and Writing Course is a six-unit course that will cover the skills needed to conduct efficient, comprehensive, compelling, and effective research and writing in immigration cases. Participants in this limited-enrollment course will have the opportunity to practice the skills they learn in short assignments after each class and then receive model answers and feedback on selected ones.