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"Hot Topics In Family-Based Immigration"
Speakers: Jacqueline Baronian, Philip Berns, Tanya Broder, Michelle Lazerow, Cyrus D. Mehta, Miko Tokuhama-Olsen, Barbara Weiner and Charles Wheeler
Each call features an hour of analysis, strategy and practice tips by
the speakers, followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers from participants.
FIRST Phone Session on October 31:
Children's Issues
SECOND Phone Session on November 26:
Financial issues
THIRD Phone Session on December 20:
Marriage, Fraud and Other Issues
Citations for Session 1 Citations for Session 2 Citations for Session 3 ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jacqueline Baronian is a sole practitioner who has been practicing immigration law for over 10 years, specializing in complex family and business immigration cases. She is a past chair of the AILA NY Chapter and a former member of the AILA Board of Governors.
Philip Berns was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and in Haiti. He practices in Stamford, CT. Unlike many immigration attorneys in the lucrative practice of employment-based immigration, Phil so enjoys helping everyday people. He specialized in family immigration, deportation, asylum, temporary protective status, NACARA, HRIFA, etc.
Tanya Broder is Staff Attorney and Policy Analyst at the National
Immigration Law Center. She focuses primarily on analyzing the ways in
which federal, state, and local governments have been implementing the
welfare and immigration laws passed in 1996. She writes articles and
policy analyses, provides technical assistance, and presents trainings to
legal and social service providers, legislative staff, and community-based
organizations. Before joining NILC in 1996, she worked as a policy analyst
for the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, and as a staff
attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County in Oakland. Ms.
Broder holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
Michelle Lazerow has served on numerous AILA liaison committees, on both local and national level; has served on numerous AILA conference committees and has been on many panels at conferences both locally and nationally. Currently serves on the board of the American Immigration Law Foundation. She is a lifetime member of Who's Who.
Cyrus D. Mehta is Chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law
of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Mehta was
recently appointed First Vice Chair of the American Immigration Law
Foundation (AILF) - an immigration think tank that advances the positive
impact of immigration in this country - after being an active trustee for
four years. He is a frequent speaker at AILA conferences and is also
involved in planning many of them. In 1997-1998, he was the Chair of AILA's
Young Lawyers Division and also won the 1997 Joseph Minsky Young Lawyers
Award for outstanding contributions in the immigration field.
Miko A. Tokuhama-Olsen is the Senior Attorney of the Individual Rights team
at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc. Mrs. Tokuhama-Olsen practices
in all areas of immigration law, excluding business immigration. She is on
the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Board of Governors of the
and also serves on the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration
Policy, Practice and Pro Bono.
Barbara Weiner is staff attorney with the Greater Upstate Law Project,
Inc., specializing in poverty law issues, since August of 1990. Admitted to
practice in California in 1976 and in New York in 1982, she has spent most
of her legal career with legal services programs, both in New York and in
California. Prior to joining GULP, Ms. Weiner was employed by the Legal Aid
Society of Northeastern New York, Inc., a field legal services program
serving six upstate counties around the tri-cities area of Albany,
Schenectady and Troy. As a staff attorney, she represented low income
clients in a variety of poverty related cases, including challenges to
reductions or terminations of public assistance and the representation of
low income tenants in both public and private housing. She also served as
legal counsel in various impact law cases, including a challenge to the
application practices of a local social services district. Ms. Weiner has
developed an expertise in Food Stamps and in immigrant access to public
benefits.
Charles Wheeler has practiced immigration law for over 25 years
specializing in alien eligibility for public benefits and most recently on affidavits of
support. He is Senior Attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network
(CLINIC) in San Francisco, California. Prior to this, he was the Executive
Director of the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, California.
He is a member of AILA's Liaison Committee on Family Law and its Liaison
Committee on Social Security. He has published numerous articles and
lectured widely on immigration law and aliens' rights issues.
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