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
Economic Relief in family Court
- State Court Bench Card: Immigration Victim’s Economic Remedies
- Immigration Concerns for Family Law Practitioners
- Chapter 06.4: Ensuring Economic Relief for Immigrant Victims Through Family Law Proceedings: Child Support and Spousal Support
This publication was developed under grant number SJI-20-E-005 from the State Justice Institute. The points of view expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the State Justice Institute.