Details: This training will cover immigration basics for non-immigration practitioners, how to identify clients who should be referred to an immigration attorney, updates in immigration law, policy and practice post-election, and how non-immigration attorneys can volunteer to do an immigration case with VLN.

Presenter: Colleen Beebe Purisaca manages the Immigration Program for Volunteer Lawyers Network.  She has been working with immigrants and refugees since the 1980s.  Prior to law school she was a BIA (now DOJ) Accredited Representative for Lutheran Social Service and the Immigrant Law Center of MN.  She has practiced immigration law as a lawyer since 1996 with the Immigrant Law Center of MN, The Advocates for Human Rights, Peace and Hope International, and since 2015 the Volunteer Lawyers Network.  She helped start both the Park Avenue Legal Clinic and the Cambodian Asylum Project in 1997.  She is third culture, bilingual, and lives, works and worships in the Latino community.

CLE: 1 hour of CLE Credit to be applied for.