Self Help
Legal Encyclopedias and Law Summaries
Specialized Texts
Websites
Community Resources
You can find additional materials on immigration law by browsing the library shelves near the listed books or by searching the library catalog.
SELF HELP
California Expungement Manual: Expunging California Criminal Convictions for Immigration Purposes
KFC1194 .T66 2002 Self Help
Useful for getting expungements in difficult cases and provides investigation strategies, immigration effects and the requirements for obtaining California expungements including forms and procedures from California's 21 largest counties, sample motions, important immigration decisions and forms for obtaining state criminal history records.
Fiancé & Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
KF4819 .6 .B73 Self Help
This comprehensive book will help to provide understanding of the immigration process, prepare for meetings with U.S. officials, learn how to prove a marriage is real, deal with the two-year testing period, and give helpful advice on protecting and renewing green-card status.
Electronic Access: On the law library computers, using Nolo E-Books.
How to Get a Green Card
KF4840 .Z9 L49 Self Help
Learn the quickest way to get a green card through parents, siblings and adult children, spouses and fiancés, green card lotteries, political asylum or refugee status.
Electronic Access: On the law library computers, using Nolo E-Books.
The Law of Immigration
KF4820 .A156 2008 Self Help
This title discusses immigration law, including an overview of the history of immigration laws, a discussion of the current laws as well as the evolution of the laws post-9/11 and addresses key issues such as the rights and obligations of the alien, including issues of entry and admission, exclusion, employment, naturalization and citizenship, asylum, deportation, as well as visas and limitations.
The National Consumer Law Center Guide to Consumer Rights for Immigrants
KF1610 .L66 2002 Self Help
This NCLC guide provides an introduction for advocates to many of the most critical consumer issues faced by low-income immigrants. It contains legal remedies and straightforward consumer information for immigrants.
U.S. Immigration Made Easy
KF4819 .6 .C36 Self Help
U.S. Immigration Made Easy covers every possible way to legally enter and live in the United States. The author explains how the immigration system really works, showing you how to qualify for work visas, student visas, refugee status, green cards, citizenship and more.
Electronic Access: On the law library computers, using Nolo E-Books.
Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants
JV6543 .W45 2007 Self Help
Available online at http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M-618.pdf
LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS and LAW SUMMARIES
American Jurisprudence 2d (AM JUR) KF 154.A42
Vol. 003A Aliens and Citizens
Vol. 003B Aliens and Citizens
Vol. 003C Aliens and Citizens
Corpus Juris Secundum KF 154.C61
Vol. 3A Aliens
Vol. 3B Aliens
SPECIALIZED TEXTS
A Guide to Naturalization
KF4800 .G9 2001
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) created this guide to provide better and more consistent information to people interested in naturalization.
AILA's Immigration Litigation Toolbox: Essential Materials for Administrative and Federal Court Practice
KF4819.3 .A44x 2009 CD- Rom Only
Designed for practitioners with varying levels of litigation experience, this CD contains sample motions, pleadings, and memoranda, as well as other practical information needed for presenting cases.
AILA's Immigration Practice Toolbox: : Sample Letters, Checklists, Questionnaires, and Other Essential Documents
KF4819.3 .A44x 2009 CD- Rom Only
This CD contains essential resources and information that will help you run your immigration law practice including questionnaires, representation agreements, checklists, and correspondence.
Bender's Immigration Case Reporter
KF4821 .A6I4
Contains current coverage of immigration cases and includes full text of selected federal court cases, all BIA and AAU precedent decisions from 1984 to present, and selected BIA and AAU non-precedent decisions, BALCA, OCAHO, PERM and Department of Labor decisions.
Board of Immigration Appeals Practice Manual AILA
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPo/lps4404
Provides basic information and guidance in proceedings before the BIA and answers frequently asked questions about appeals and motions.
Criminal Defense of Immigrants
KF4819.C7 .T66 2007
An overview of all immigration and consequences of criminal cases including relief from removal, safe dispositions in criminal cases, and coverage of criminal law and procedure as they affect immigrants.
Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit: Impact of Crimes under California and Other State Laws
KFC698 .B73
This manual shows step-by-step how to identify, analyze and defend against the adverse immigration consequences of charges, using a combination of user-friendly charts, summaries and practice aids, and in-depth discussion of defense strategies. It includes extensive discussion of California offenses, including new defense strategies for assault, domestic violence, drugs, sexual crimes with minors and other commonly charged offense.
Immigration Law and Defense
KF4819 .A7 I55
Covers deportation, including the crucial factors of alienage and deportability and discusses administrative appeals, political asylum, withholding of deportation, and other relief for refugees. Also focuses on citizenship and naturalization.
Immigration Law and Procedure
KF4819 .G61
An authoritative treatise on immigration law as well as an incomparable collection of easily accessible source materials with all amendments integrated directly into the text.
Immigration Procedures Handbook
KF4819 .I87
Contains explanations of how, where, and why to present specific types of petitions and applications under today's immigration laws and includes analysis of current law to assist in determining the most effective method of proceeding with a case. Covers recent changes that affect immigration practice and procedures.
Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook
KF4819.3 K87
Kurzban's Sourcebook intelligently guides you through the labyrinth of immigration law with accurate and concise explanations. This synopsis of immigration law includes an extensive and thorough subject-matter index, table of cases, and multiple tables of authorities to help you find answers quickly and easily.
Tooby's California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants
KF4819 .T64
This book is a good source for immigration and criminal counsel representing immigrants with criminal convictions from California. Includes all California Penal Code procedural vehicles up-to-date and discusses and Immigration consequences of different forms of post-conviction relief.
Tooby's Guide to Criminal Immigration Law: How Criminal and Immigration Counsel Can Work Together To Protect Immigration Status In Criminal Cases
KF4819 .T66
This book discusses how criminal and immigration lawyers can work together in a criminal case and describes simple strategies for avoiding deportation at each stage of a criminal case including investigation, consultation, plea, sentence, and post-conviction relief.
WEB SITES
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)www.ailalawyer.com
Find an immigration attorney in your local area through AILA. It is the only legal association in the United States for immigration attorneys. AILA is an Affiliated Organization of the American Bar Association.
American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF)www.ailf.org
AILF is dedicated to increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy and the value of immigration to American society, and to advancing fundamental fairness and due process under the law for immigrants.
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Community Legal Services - McGeorge School of Law - Immigration Law Clinic
3130 Fifth Avenue (916) 340-6080
Mon - Fri 9:00am - 5:00pm
During academic year only
Assistance on adjusting immigrant status, family applications and petitions, citizenship applications, and special immigration programs.
By appointment only. Must be low-income.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
650 Capitol Mall (800)375-5283
M,T,TH, F 7:00am - 1:00pm, Wed 7:00am - Noon
www.uscis.gov
USCIS administers the immigration and nationality laws as set forth by Congress. Includes examinations for non-immigrant, immigrant, and naturalization applications and oversees citizenship, permanent residency, employment, and refugee status.
World Relief
4727 Engle Road, Suite 14, Carmichael (916) 978-2650
Mon - Fri 9:00am - 4:00pm
www.worldrelief.org
Provides refugee resettlement processing, new arrival casework, follow up and referrals. Information and assistance with citizenship and green cards, visa 93s, and other immigration questions.
updated rmm 03/02/2011