ASISTA Immigration Assistance

ASISTA New Resource: Know Your VAWA Options: Self-Petition Compared with “Special Rule” Cancellation on of Removal

Mar 4, 2025

Effectively representing a survivor of domestic violence requires understanding ALL immigration options they may be able to pursue. This chart provides an at-a-glance review of the requirements for VAWA Self-Petitions […]

Initial Documents Immigrant Survivors May Need – Checklist (Updated Dec 2024)

Feb 13, 2025

This checklist suggests documents that social workers and advocates working with immigrant survivors may wish to help the survivor to gather. They may become useful for pending or future immigration […]

Webinar Series on Routes to Immigration Status for Non-Citizen Crime Survivors

Jan 18, 2023

On April 3, 2017, ASISTA presented a webinar on: Intermediate/Advanced U Visas: Overcoming Difficult Inadmissibility Issues, Obtaining U Visa Extensions, and Including Family Members at Adjustment To listen to this […]

Webinar Series on Routes to Immigration Status for Non-Citizen Crime Survivors

Jan 18, 2023

The link includes the recording of the following webinars: 1- November 7, 2016: Intermediate VAWA and Selected Issues 2- December 5, 2016: Advanced VAWA: Addressing Complications in VAWA Cases and […]

Updates on VAWA Self-Petitions and U Visas: Practice Pointers on Emerging Issues, Including Keeping Your Survivors Safe While Applying for Status

Jan 18, 2023

On September 21, 2017, ASISTA Executive Director Gail Pendleton and Senior Policy Counsel Cecelia Friedman Levin presented a webinar on VAWA self-petitions and U Visas. In addition to updates on […]

PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANT SURVIVORS: INSECURE COMMUNITIES

Jan 18, 2023

Current policies and programs that enmesh immigration enforcement with local law enforcement are jeopardizing survivors’ chances to be free from violence in their lives. This document provides a background of […]

Practice Update: New Fee Waiver Form in Effect December 2, 2019

Jan 18, 2023

This practice update provides information on the new fee waiver form, to be in effect on December 2, 2019, and includes the new proposed fee rule with additional limitations on […]

Practice Pointer: What If You Do Not Receive an RFE or Denial Notice (3/2020)

Jan 18, 2023

In this practice pointer, ASISTA addresses what to do if your case was denied as abandoned because you did not respond to an RFE that was never received. In the […]

Practice Pointer: Filling Form I-290B When Multiple Interrelated Forms Are Denied

Jan 18, 2023

Practice Pointer: Filing Form I-290B When Multiple Interrelated Forms Are Denied

Document Author: ASISTA Immigration Assistance