September Removal Defense Webinar: Pushing Back Against Pretermission of Asylum Cases

National Immigration Project

September Removal Defense Webinar

Fighting for a Day in Court:

Pushing Back Against Pretermission of Asylum Cases

Thursday, September 4, 2025  1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (ET) / 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PT)

90 minutes of instruction (1.50 CLE credits)

Zoom Webinar

Program Description

Immigration Judges (IJs) have increasingly begun to pretermit asylum applications--often ordering asylum seekers removed without ever having a chance to have a hearing on their claims. This webinar will discuss the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Policy Memo on Pretermission as well as the Board of Immigration Appeals decision, Matter of C-A-R-R-, and how IJs have been applying these directives to pretermit cases.

During this webinar, the faculty will discuss:

• The EOIR Pretermission Memo and how it misstates and contradicts controlling law;
• Matter of C-A-R-R- and how IJs have misconstrued the holding to terminate cases;
• Constitutional, statutory, and regulatory rights that asylum seekers possess to have hearings on their protection claims;
• Steps that practitioners should take to avoid pretermission and to fight back if an IJ pretermits their case.

Faculty

• Gabriel Arellano, Associate Director of Training & Technical Assistance, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
• Victoria Neilson, Supervising Attorney, National Immigration Project

CLE Credits 

This session has been approved by the Washington State Bar Association and with the State Bar of Texas for 1.50 CLE credits.

Uniform Certificates of Attendance will be available for attorneys to request CLE credits in other states. The National Immigration Project is also prepared to provide proof of registration/attendance upon request.

Registration Fees 

• $75.00  -  General Admission
• $40.00  -  National Immigration Project Members
• $20.00  -  Student (For student discounts, please email us at events@nipnlg.org.)

CLE Sponsored by 

National Immigration Project

Questions? 

Please send inquiries about the CLE to events@nipnlg.org