Oct 6/Springfield MO & Web - Helping Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence: VAWA-Based Green Cards & U Visas

Learn how lack of immigration status impairs a survivor's chances of putting her life together, how to spot immigration issues in your cases, what options are available to a survivor under current immigration law, and how to assist with securing evidence necessary for a VAWA-based green card and U visa status.

Legal Services of Southern Missouri (LSOSM) is proud to offer free Continuing Legal Education (CLE) events to attorneys who are part of our Judicare and Volunteer Lawyer Panels. Judicare Panel members are attorneys who have agreed to handle LSOSM cases as a reduced fee. Volunteer Lawyer Panel members are attorneys who have agreed to handle LSOSM cases free of charge.

See http://www.lsmo.org/CLE

Title:

"Helping Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence: VAWA-Based Green Cards & U Visas"

Wednesday October 06 , 2010 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM  Central Time

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  • By: Legal Services of Southern Missouri, The Missouri Bar Immigration Law Committee
  CLE Credit
• Location:
  
  
  
  Legal Services offices in Springfield, Rolla, West Plains, Charleston & Cape Girardeau
  Main Office - 2872 S. Meadowbrook Avenue

  Springfield (& Live Video to our other offices), MO
• Contact:
  
  
  
  Deanna Scott
  

  Legal Services of Southern Missouri

  Deanna.Scott@lsosm.org
  

  (417) 881-1397
• Website: judicare.lsosm.org
• Speaker: Mira Mdivani, Immigration Business Attorney, The Mdivani Law Firm, LLC

Speaker's Bio: Mira Mdivani is a business immigration attorney at the Mdivani Law Firm, KS. Mira's pro bono work focuses on helping immigrant survivors of domestic violence. Her pro bono work has been recognized by the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, The Missouri Bar Association, Kansas Bar
Association, and the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas
City. Mira chairs the Missouri Bar Immigration Committee. She teaches
immigration law, including a course on Immigrant Survivors of Domestic
Violence, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

Written Materials: "Immigration Law and the Violence Against Women Act: Hope for Survivors" by Mira Mdivani, Emily Haverkamp, and Samara Nazir Zaman (180 pages).

• CLE Credit Comments: 2 Hours MCLE Credit (Missouri). Live presentation in Springfield (live, real time video to other offices).
• http://www.probono.net/calendar/event.326619-Helping_Immigrant_Survivors_of_Domestic_Violence_VAWABased_Green_Cards_U_V