About This Course
Passed by Congress in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has since been reauthorized multiple times, most recently in 2013. This fascinating CLE course will explore the VAWA as it applies to immigration, where it offers crucial protections to immigrant survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and trafficking, a crucial and necessary process to know and understand.
The course will explain the laws enacted by VAWA which ensure that immigrants can break free from abusive situations without harming their status, by making it possible for them to pursue self-petitions for green cards, essentially shielding them from deportation.