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Trafficking and T Visas

Memos

  William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008: Changes to T and U Nonimmigrant Status and Adjustment of Status Provisions; Revisions to Adjudicator’s Field Manual (AFM) Chapters 23.5 and 39 (AFM Update AD10-38)
 

Resources for Clients

This site contains materials for representation for your client, as well as information for the client.

 

  Presentación por USCIS en cómo navegar el sitio web. ¡En Español!
Esta presentación explica paso a paso cómo navegar el sitio web para ver el estatus de su caso.
  SB 1569 Factsheet
Expanded protections for human trafficking survivors: How to access benefits
 

Q & A from CIS

  Advance Questions/Discussion Topics for VSC Meeting August 20, 2009
Q & A with the Vermont Service Center in August 2009.
  CIS Q & A on T and U Visas from June 2009
Q & A with CIS on T and U Visas in June 2009.
 

Cases in Proceedings

  Sauzo Perez v. Mukasey
Petitioner argued that misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence assault in the fourth degree, under state, law, was not crime of violence constituting aggravated felony under removal state. The Court of Appeals held that assault conviction was not categorically conviction for crime of violence, and that assault conviction was not crime of violence under modified category. January 2008
 

Privacy

  8 USC 1367
Link to the Government Printing Office page with 8 USC 1367 relating to penalties for disclosure of information relating to battered or abused immigrants as well as use of information obtained from batterers and their families.
  Non-Disclosure and Other Prohibitions Relating to Battered Aliens: IIRIRA §384
This first INS memo on the special confidentiality provisions and protections against using information from abusers remains the best government document on this issue. Read along with 8 USC 1367 and other documents in this section.
 
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