This training is about immigration enforcement and its intersections with VAWA confidentiality. It highlights DHS enforcement priorities and sensitive locations, including courthouse enforcement.
Webinar Recording Webinar 6, August 21, 2018: Impact of DHS Enforcement Priorities on Courts: VAWA Confidentiality and Custody
Training Materials
Legal Rights Overviews and Brochures
- Multilingual Materials for Victims and Advocates
- DHS Infographic: Protection for Immigrant Victims (January 12, 2107)
- Immigration Options for Victims of Crime – DHS Brochure
- Information on the Legal Rights Available to Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence in the US and Facts about Immigrating on a Marriage-based Visa
Immigration Allegations in Custody Cases
- Family Court Bench Card on Issues that Arise in Custody Cases Involving Immigrant Parents, Children, and Crime Victims
- Custody of Children in Mixed Status Families: Preventing the Misunderstanding and Misuse of Immigration Status in State-Court Custody Proceedings
- How to Get a Detained Person to Court for Family Court Cases Involving Children and/or Criminal Proceedings
- Immigration Status: Work Authorization, Public Benefits and Ability to Sponsor Children
- Justice for All: How Attorneys Can Successfully Win Custody Cases for Immigrant Survivors When There Is a Clash of Laws, Cultures, Custody, and Parental Rights
- Chapter 06.1: Countering Abuser’s Attempts to Raise Victim’s Immigration Status in Custody Cases
- Chapter 06.3: The Implications of the Hague International Child Abduction Convention: Cases and Practice
VAWA Confidentiality: Improving Victim Safety
- VAWA Confidentiality Protections for Immigrant Crime Victims (Updated January 31, 2018)
- VAWA Confidentiality and Protections for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
- VAWA Confidentiality Webinar (February 9, 2015)
- VAWA Confidentiality Statutes, Legislative History and Implementing Policy
- Family Court Bench Card on VAWA Confidentiality
- Three Prongs of VAWA Confidentiality
- Newsletter on VAWA Confidentiality
- Chapter 3 of Empowering Survivors: VAWA Confidentiality, History, Purpose, DHS Implementation, and Violations of VAWA Confidentiality Protections
- Chapter 3.2: VAWA Confidentiality and Breaches of Confidentiality
- Service Provider Confidentiality Safeguards: Best Practices
- Advocate’s Guide to Immigrant Survivors’ Rights and Protections (2013)
Statutes
Congressionally Mandated Implementing Policies
- All DHS Directive on Implementation of Section 1367 Information Provisions
- All DHS VAWA Confidentiality Instruction
- DHS Broadcast Message on New 384 Class of Admission Code
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Office of the Principle Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security VAWA Confidentiality Operations Memos
- DHS Civil Rights Civil Liberties Complaint Instructions for VAWA Confidentiality Violations
- VAWA Confidentiality Complaint Process at DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) 2018
- CRCL Complaint Form
- Memorandum: VAWA Confidentiality Prohibitions Relating to Battered Aliens: IIRIRA 384
- Executive Office of Immigration Review EOIR: VAWA Confidentiality Procedures for Immigration Court
- New Classification for Victims of Criminal Activity — Eligibility for “U” Nonimmigrant
Civil Protection Orders and Immigrant Victims
- Bench Card: Immigrants and Protection Orders
- Battering or Extreme Cruelty: Drawing Examples from Civil Protection Orders and Family Law Cases
- Chapter 05.1: Battered Immigrants and Civil Protection Orders
- Chapter 05.2: Ensuring Access to Protection Orders for Immigrant Victims of Family Violence
- Chapter 14: Protection Orders for Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault
- Battered Immigrant Women in the United States and Protection Orders: An Exploratory Research