Ebook: Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients

To be an effective immigration advocate, it is essential to have a thorough understanding of the laws affecting your clients. This manual is designed to give practitioners that understanding with respect to Lawful Permanent Residents who have been charged with being removable.

This manual is designed as a “how to” manual; it contains detailed explanations of the grounds of removal LPRs are most likely to face, when they do and don’t apply, the remedies for each, and the practicalities of working with clients to elicit the evidence necessary to successfully defend their cases.

Although the primary focus of this book is on the remedies available for LPR clients who have been found removable, we wish to emphasize from the outset that the first line of defense in many cases involving LPR clients will be to deny the allegations in the Notice to Appear (NTA) and move for termination of the proceedings. This is a tactic to use in a number of situations; for example, where the government bears the burden of proof, or when there is a question about the legality of the arrest, or when there is an argument to be made that your client does not fall within the inadmissibility or deportability grounds charged in the NTA.

Finally, but very importantly, don’t forget that some of your LPR clients may actually turn out to be U.S. citizens by operation of law, and this possibility should always be explored when representing LPR clients in removal proceedings.