South Dakota CLE - Immigration Law Courses
South Dakota CLE
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Immigration in Mergers and Acquisitions: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
This CLE program provides a clear, practical overview of the immigration challenges that arise during corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and internal restructurings. When U.S. employers undergo these transactions, they must ensure the continuity of work authorization for foreign national employees, preserve the validity of existing immigration petitions, and assess whether “successor in interest” obligations apply under federal law. Participants will learn the key regulato... More Info
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Employment Eligibility Verification: Form I-9 Compliance and Workplace Enforcement Actions
This CLE course takes a step-by-step look at the employer’s role in the employment eligibility verification process, emphasizing practical realities rather than theory. We begin by unpacking the Form I-9—its purpose, the statutory and regulatory requirements behind it, and the strict rules that turn small oversights into compliance failures. Participants will gain a clear sense of when verification duties arise, how the timing and documentation standards function, and why recurring errors cont... More Info
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Crimmigration: Avoid Giving Bad Advice to Immigrant Defendants
This CLE program examines the critical intersection of criminal law and immigration law—commonly referred to as “crimmigration”—and the profound immigration consequences that may flow from criminal charges, pleas, and convictions. The course is designed to equip criminal defense attorneys with a working understanding of how criminal dispositions can trigger removal, inadmissibility, or other adverse immigration outcomes for non-citizen clients. Participants will learn to identify immigr... More Info
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Truth, Lies and Circuit Splits: Credibility and Well-Founded Fear in Asylum Law
Asylum cases are frequently decided on a single question: whether the adjudicator believes the applicant. Since enactment of the REAL ID Act, credibility determinations have become both more formalized and more unforgiving, with statutory standards that invite rigorous scrutiny of testimony. Yet despite a common federal framework, courts of appeals apply credibility principles unevenly, resulting in significant circuit-level variation that can determine the outcome of a case. This CLE p... More Info
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Preparing for Victory in an FGM Case Before USCIS and EOIR
Claims based on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also referred to as female circumcision, require careful legal analysis and meticulous evidentiary development. This CLE program focuses on the practical and doctrinal aspects of litigating FGM-based asylum claims before USCIS asylum offices and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). The course addresses the essential legal standards governing FGM claims and provides guidance on assembling persuasive records, including client... More Info
$291General Credit
