NILA is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Children’s Immigration Law Academy of the American Bar Association,  or CILA. The partnership has three main components – trainings, technical assistance, and resource creation – to be delivered over the course of the coming year. We look forward to collaborating with, and contributing to, CILA’s ability to build capacity for those working to advance the rights of children seeking protection. More here!  

NILA’s latest practice advisory, “Adjustment of Status for TPS Holders after Matter of Z-R-Z-C-” addresses USCIS’ reversal of its longstanding policy of treating authorized travel by TPS holders as “parole” for adjustment or status. Co-authored with AILA and AIC, the advisory suggests strategies and arguments for TPS holders who have or will travel on advance parole. Read the advisory here.

The Eighth Circuit joins the Sixth and Ninth Circuit’s in holding that beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status are eligible to adjust status to that of a lawful permanent resident. Hats off to plaintiff’s counsel, David Wilson and Brittany Sue Bakken, and amicus counsel, NILA’s Mary Kenney and AIC’s Kristin Macleod-Ball! Read the decision here.