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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Immigration

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Thursday, October 30, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

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This CLE webinar will explore the pathways from asylum to lawful permanent residence, guiding practitioners on screening cases, selecting the appropriate forum, and preparing clients for the process. The panel provides a structured overview of affirmative, defensive, and asylum merits interviews. The experts cover key eligibility elements and statutory bars and tactics for evidence development, credibility, and corroboration.

Faculty

Prerna Lal
Founding Attorney
Lal Legal

Attorney Lal, Esq. has a long history of successful advocacy on behalf of immigrants. A monumental civil rights advocate and formerly undocumented immigrant, Attorney Lal pioneered a robust network of highly organized and diverse undocumented youth with digital engagement capacity and fought against the deportations of immigrant community members. This model of organizing spurred immigration organizations across the country to fight against deportations and laid the groundwork for the Obama Administration’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)” program. Attorney Lal received many awards, honors and accolades both locally and nationally, including the Changemaker of the Year award from the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). ABC News has listed Attorney Lal as among the “Top 20 Immigration Experts to Follow on Twitter” while Ms Magazine has recognized them as one of the “50 Feminist Women to Follow” and Colorlines has showcased them in “Here’s 15 Smart Women of Color on Twitter.”

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Description

In choosing a pathway, counsel faces recurring problems that may drive the result for the client. Common roadblocks include the one-year filing rule and exceptions, firm resettlement, and credibility and corroboration. Practitioners must address language-access and interpreter challenges and employ trauma-informed preparation to avoid inconsistencies that undermine the claim. Post-grant adjustment presents additional risks and decisions to be made. Asylee applicants must satisfy eligibility, counter potential inadmissibility, and understand the nuances of interview-waiver criteria and the one-year physical-presence requirement.

Listen as the panel delves into strategy and decision-making for forum selection, interview preparation, and adjustment strategy. Counsel will learn to anticipate obstacles, cure weaknesses in the record, and guide clients from asylum through permanent residence.

Outline

I. Introduction: statutory framework and definitions

II. Procedural options

A. Affirmative asylum, defensive asylum, asylum merits interview after credible fear

III. Substantive eligibility and bars

A. Nexus to protected ground

B. Past persecution/well-founded fear

C. Statutory bars, timing, filing exceptions

IV. Interview preparation and advocacy

A. Client preparation: credibility and consistency

B. Language access/interpreters

C. Trauma-informed practice

D. Documentation and timelines

V. Post-grant: benefits, derivatives, and work authorization

VI. Adjustment to LPR for asylees, risk and consequences (Matter of NAI)

VII. Practitioner takeaways

Benefits

The panel will review these and other important topics:

  • Understanding and differentiating the asylum pathways
  • Aligning preparation according to pathway
  • Applying eligibility elements and bars
  • Implementing interview best practices, including interpreter obligations and trauma‑informed approaches
  • Advising on post‑grant steps
  • Preparing and filing asylee adjustments
  • Mitigate risks, including the effect of Matter of N‑A‑I- and related case law