Sentences with phrase «representing asylum»

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Additional Resources American Bar Association Commission on Immigration American Immigration Lawyers Association Amnesty International Country Reports Asylum Pro Se Guide — English (Create by students at Stanford Law) Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (includes resources for gender law and asylum) Department of Justice Country Conditions Research Detention Watch Network EOIR Virtual Law Library (with BIA precedent decisions) Human Rights Watch, Country Specific Reports Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights Division Immigrant Legal Resource Center Immigration Equality (includes extensive resources for LGBT asylum claims) Immigration and Nationality Act Immigration Regulations (C.F.R. Title 8) National Immigrant Justice Center's Resources for Attorneys Representing Asylum Seekers (includes numerous free training webinars) UNHCR Guidance Report on LGBT Asylum Claims United Nations High Commission on Refugees USCIS Guidance on Adjudicating LGBT Asylum Claims University of Minnesota Human Rights Library / Refugee and Asylum Resources U.S. State Department Country Reports Women on the Run, UNHCR Report (resources for female asylum - seekers) Women's Human Rights Net Yale Law School's Refugee & Asylum Resources (includes several resources for gender - based asylum claims)

She has represented asylum seekers before the Second Circuit, the Board of Immigration Appeals, Immigration Court, and the USCIS Asylum Office.

She also successfully represented asylum seekers and staffed a low - income legal clinic for students in the South Bronx.

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* Americans don't read Russian literature or study history Dostoyevsky's «The Idiot» was about a man (representing Christ) who was locked away in an insane asylum in Switzerland.

Wiles» statement represents an apparent policy change as it contradicts the «Nationality - Swapping» document, which describes how Border Agency officials judging asylum cases should access DNA and isotope evidence from the project and use it in interviews with asylum seekers.

For example, I participated in the 2002 Tirana Biennale representing Greece, during a heavily turbulent political period for the Balkans with refugees flooding in from the Balkan region, as well as many political asylum seekers from Iraq.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three fabric sculptures, here piled on top of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.

While we would have reservations about the Court's reasoning (for an excellent analysis, see Cathryn Costello's article) and might have hoped for a position closer to that adopted by AG Trstenjak, who posited that a State has a duty to take responsibility for the asylum seeker if a Dublin transfer would expose them to serious risk of violating (any) fundamental rights, its judgment represents important progress.

Experienced Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients in each and every state with various naturalization and immigration cases including: asylum, change of status, citizenship, green card, removal defense, work authorization and more.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in several immigration and naturalization cases such as: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and much more.

Projects run the spectrum of legal work from representing voting rights organizations and individual voters in federal and state courts, immigration and asylum efforts assisting detainees and victims of domestic violence to partnering with commercial clients» in - house counsel on naturalization and consumer law projects, and collaborating with a non-profit to advise their grant recipients on topics including contracts, corporate governance, and tax issues.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in numerous immigration and naturalization cases such as: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and much more.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in various immigration and naturalization cases including: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and much more.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in different immigration and naturalization cases for example: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and more.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in different immigration and naturalization cases like: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and much more.

Experienced Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients in each and every state with many naturalization and immigration cases like: asylum, change of status, citizenship, green card, removal defense, work authorization and much more.

In 2006 — 07 legal aid service providers delivered nearly 800,000 legal acts of assistance, excluding immigration and asylum, which the LSC says represents a 12.5 % increase on 2005 — 06.

She is chair and co-founder of the Asylum Support Appeals Project, which represents destitute asylum - seAsylum Support Appeals Project, which represents destitute asylum - seasylum - seekers.

Since joining Duncan Lewis Shahnaz has represented clients in all types of immigration and asylum matters from providing initial legal advice to appeals at the Immigration Tribunals.

In 2002 he decided to work for Applicants / Claimants and since then has used his experience gained in representing individuals in all aspects of immigration and asylum.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Pearl was at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and provided legal advice to practitioners on asylum law and policies in the UK; reviewed conditions of detention of asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, in accordance with UNHCR's guidelines; and represented UNHCR at the 20th Assembly session on the adoption of a resolution.

Top level 3 registration authorises the adviser to represent clients in immigration courts, currently known as First - tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).

Our lawyers collaborate with local and regional legal services organizations on a host of projects, including: representing victims of domestic violence at final hearings on protective orders; staffing and operating walk - in clinics for indigent clients; handling intake of new clients for organizations; and training volunteers to handle cases in areas such as immigration, asylum, elder law, domestic violence and family law.

In addition, she maintained a pro bono practice, representing LGBT asylum - seekers and staffed a low - income legal clinic for students.

She represents cases involving Asylum seeking children, gender based and religious persecution and exclusion from the Refugee Convention.

Experienced Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients in each and every state with many naturalization and immigration cases such as: asylum, change of status, citizenship, green card, removal defense, work authorization and much more.

Experienced Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients in each and every state with many naturalization and immigration cases such as: asylum, change of status, citizenship, green card, removal defense, work authorization and more.

She successfully represented LGBT asylum - seekers and staffed a low - income legal clinic for students in the South Bronx.

Our immigration lawyer represents immigration and clients facing deportation / removal before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in immigration courts throughout the United States in obtaining their permanent resident cards, citizenship, religious and political asylum applications, removal / deportation hearings, criminal defense, DACA, deferred action enforcement, temporary and permanent visa applications, K 1 fiance visa petitions, work authorization visa, immigration bonds and holds, criminal bonds, appeals, violence against women (VAWA) battered spouse petitions, cancellation of removal, TPS or DED and more.

Our specialist barristers represent in a wide range of asylum appeals.

Experienced Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients in each and every state with various naturalization and immigration cases such as: asylum, change of status, citizenship, green card, removal defense, work authorization and much more.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in numerous immigration and naturalization cases for instance: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and much more.

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

Dipen participates in the Firm's pro bono work and has successfully represented clients in political asylum applications.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in several immigration and naturalization cases like: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and more.

Our Georgia immigration lawyer represents clients throughout the United States in several immigration and naturalization cases for instance: citizenship, asylum, removal defense, change of status, green cards, work authorization and much more.

On a pro bono basis, Craig has represented clients seeking political asylum before the United States Immigration Court, clients seeking disability benefits, and he has worked with an area nonprofit providing legal assistance to persons living with HIV.

In addition to her work helping develop Boston College Law's new clinical program, Shannon partnered with the Political Asylum / Immigration Representation Project to create a pro bono project in which law students of all levels represent detained non-citizens requesting releases on bond.

Immigration: All aspects of immigration, asylum, nationality and refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing children subject to immigration control; representing victims of trafficking and other vulnerable clients; detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.

The clinic represents clients in family law cases in Boulder District Court, social security disability cases before federal administrative law judges, and asylum cases before immigration law judges.

The e-Conference raises money to support the free online training materials for advocates who represent noncitizens in claims for asylum, changes in immigration status, naturalization and more.

Combining up - to - date case law, cutting edge legal arguments on currently developing issues and decades of expertise from accomplished practitioners who have successfully represented clients through the years, Essentials of Asylum Law offers an expansive explanation of the legal theories and rules underpinning current asylum cAsylum Law offers an expansive explanation of the legal theories and rules underpinning current asylum casylum claims.

In addition to their other cases, the students are all working on several asylum cases, representing clients from all over the world, and seeking custody orders and filing petitions with USCIS for many juveniles who are eligible for SIJS status (which can lead to legal permanent residency).

Maddie received the American Gateways 2015 Access to Justice Award in recognition of her work leading a coalition of law firms representing a Mexican politician and his extended family seeking political asylum and withholding under the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

James also maintains an active pro bono practice, where he represents clients with Violence Against Women (VAWA) actions and asylum proceedings.

She has represented political asylees seeking asylum in the United States throughout her career.

She also represents a Nepali woman seeking asylum.

Webster also maintains an active pro bono practice, representing individuals in immigration and asylum proceedings and providing counsel to several New York City museums and performing arts organizations.