Day 1 2019 NW Regional Immigration Law Conference Thursday, February 14 Family-Removal Track - Pigott Building, Pigott Auditorium Time Topic Speakers 7:15-8:15 a.m. Registration, Breakfast and Coffee Service

8:15-9:30 a.m. AOS/CP: Advanced Issues in Cynthia Irvine, Hanis Irvine Prothero, PLLC Session 1 Adjustment of Status and IV Barbara Marcouiller, Peterson Russell Kelly PLLC Consular Processing

9:30-10:45 a.m. Waivers Jaime Langton, Gonzales, Gonzales and Gonzales

Session 2 Mari Matsumoto, Washington Immigration Defense Group

10:45-11 a.m. Break 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Naturalization and Citizenship Jessica Boell, Immigrant Law Group PC Session 3 Issues Emily Headings

12:15-12:30 p.m. Pick up Pre-Ordered Box Lunches - Pigott Building, PACCAR Atrium 12:30-1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Honorable Carol King (ret.)

1:30-2:45 p.m. Ethics: "Pretty Little Lies and Deborah Neidermeyer, Rios & Cruz P.S. Session 4 Other Tales" Raquel Hecht, Hecht & Norman LLP

2:45-4 p.m. Naturalization Litigation Christopher Strawn, NWIRP Session 5 Margaret Stock, Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC

4:00-4:15 p.m. Break

4:15-5:30 p.m. Ask an Expert: Q&A with Today’s Christopher Anders, Parker Butte & Lane PC Session 6 Panelists and Others Margaret Stock, Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC

Mari Matsumoto, Washington Immigration Defense Group

JJ Rollin, Oregon Justice Resource Center Immigrant Rights Project 5:30-7 p.m. Pro Bono Awards Reception - Sullivan Hall, 2nd Floor Gallery

2/11/2019 Day 2 2019 NW Regional Immigration Law Conference Friday, February 15 Family-Removal Track - Pigott Building, Pigott Auditorium Time Topic Speakers 7:15-8:15 a.m. Registration, Breakfast and Coffee Service

8:15-9:30 a.m. Crimmigration Developments JJ Rollins, Oregon Justice Resource Center Immigrant Rights Session 7 Project Henry Cruz, Rios & Cruz, P.S

10-10:10 a.m. Break 9:30-10:45 a.m. Detention, Custody, Stays/Bond Maria Zlateva, Maria Zlateva P.C. Session 8 Andrea Lino, NWIRP Chris Stanislowski, NWIRP

10:45-11 a.m. Break 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Asylum Issues Christopher Anders, Parker Butte & Lane PC Session 9 Kristin Kyrka, Higuera & VanDerhoef PLLC

12:15-12:30 p.m. Pick up Pre-Ordered Box Lunches - Pigott Building, PACCAR Atrium 12:30-1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Anastasia Tonello, President, AILA 1:30-2:45 p.m. Removal/Relief Procedures Adam Boyd, Law Offices of Adam W. Boyd Session 10 Melissa Campos, Avelar Immigration Law PLLC

2:45-4 p.m. U Visas and VAWA Issues Sarah Purce, Catholic Charities Session 11 Roxana Rahmani, NWIRP Leta Sanchez, Chamberlain Sanchez Immigration Law

4:00-4:15 p.m. Break 4:15-5:30 p.m. Ask an Expert: Q&A with Today’s Phil Hornik, Attorney at Law Session 12 Panelists and Others Kristin Kyrka, Higuera & VanDerhoef PLLC Luz Metz, Metz Law Group PLLC Robert Gibbs, Gibbs Houston Pauw 5:30 p.m. Evaluations and Adjourn 5:30-7:00 p.m. Happy Hour sponsored by the New Member Section of the AILA Oregon and AILA Washington The Chieftain Tavern - 908 12th Avenue, Seattle WA (Across from campus, between Marion and Spring Streets)

2/11/2019 2019 NW Regional Immigration Law Conference Speaker Biographies – Family/Removal Track

Christopher Anders Christopher Anders, shareholder of Parker, Butte & Lane, focuses his practice on family immigration, naturalization, deportation and removal litigation and asylum. He has presented at community and CLE events on topics ranging from naturalization to asylum to visas available to crime victims. He is a regular guest lecturer on asylum law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Before practicing law he worked as an immigration paralegal and taught English as a Second Language both in the U.S. and in Latin America.

Jessica Boell Jessica Boell is a partner with Immigrant Law Group PC in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2001 and was awarded a Berkeley Law Foundation one-year fellowship. Jessica’s past work experience includes positions at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, Contra Costa Public Defender’s Office and as a language teacher in Spain. Her practice specializes in removal defense, family-based immigration, federal court appeals, and assisting individuals fleeing persecution. Jessica has taught immigration law at Portland Community College.

Adam Boyd Adam W. Boyd is a solo immigration attorney who practices in Tacoma. He has worked teaching a Federal Appeals Clinic at College Law School that focused on immigration impact litigation in the Circuit Courts of Appeals. After teaching, he spent two years working at an immigration and criminal defense firm in Boston. He opened his own firm in 2015 in Tacoma, His current practice focuses on detained representation in the Northwest Detention Center. Though he does practice a combination of removal and family immigration a majority of his clients start as detained individuals.

Melissa Campos Melissa Campos-Castaneda specializes in removal defense, with an emphasis on detained cases. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 2002 with a concentration in Comparative Politics. Ms. Campos-Castaneda received her Juris Doctorate from Seattle University School of Law in 2006. During law school, she served as the president of the Hispanic Organization for Legal Advancement and was a staff member on the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. During this time, she also co-authored an article with national minority voting rights expert Professor Joaquin Avila on non-citizen voting rights issues. She was admitted to the Washington State Bar in May 2007. She has worked as a staff attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Tacoma, WA., visiting detained individuals at the Northwest Detention Center, providing Know-Your-Rights presentations as well as direct representation before the immigration court.

Melissa is dedicated to the cause of the defenseless and is a relentless advocate of those in need of competent as well as price-accessible representation.

Henry Cruz Henry Cruz is a partner at Rios & Cruz, P.S., in Seattle, WA. He regularly practices before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with a focus on removal defense. He previously worked at Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice in Seattle, WA and the Political Asylum Project of Austin in Texas. He was awarded WA AILA’s 2009 Pro Bono Award for Most Significant Pro Bono Work Having the Greatest Impact. He speaks regularly on immigration litigation, crimmigration, and immigrant rights. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.

Robert Gibbs Robert H. Gibbs is a founding partner in the immigration law firm Gibbs Houston Pauw. His practice includes a diverse range of immigration cases, e.g. asylum, removal defense, family, naturalization, employment visas and employer sanctions compliance. His litigation practice includes habeas and mandamus litigation, petitions for review, and twelve class action challenges to agency procedures. He was the recipient in 2001 of the AILA Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation and the Carol King Award of the National Immigration Project in 2009. He was a founding board member of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. He is a 1968 graduate of Grinnell College, and a 1974 graduate of the University of Washington Law School.

Emily Headings Emily Headings has a solo immigration practice based in north Seattle, handling primarily family, citizenship, asylum, VAWA and removal defense cases. She has worked as an immigration lawyer since 2003, serving as a staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) in Seattle for 11 of those years. At NWIRP she focused on complex citizenship and naturalization cases. More recently she worked as a policy advisor at the Seattle Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA). Since before law school she has been active in pro bono efforts serving refugees and immigrants. She has an M.A. in International Relations and worked for 10 years as an ESL and citizenship instructor before attending law school.

Raquel Hecht Raquel E. Hecht has been an Immigration Lawyer in the State of Oregon since 1993. She received her M.A. in Latin American Studies and Law degree from UCLA. She has a B.A. in Latin American Studies with a minor in History from NYU. Raquel has lived in Brazil, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Australia, Portugal and France. She is the founding partner of the immigration law firm of Hecht & Norman, LLP with offices in Eugene and Salem. She is a of a local non-profit organization, Grupo Latino de Accion Directa (GLAD), which strives to encourage participation of underrepresented groups in the political process. Her past and present activities include: Member of the Eugene Police Commission, Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at the University of Oregon School of Law, Vice-President of the Lane Arts Council, Member of the Educational Outreach Committee of the Human Rights Commission, Board Member of the Eugene Research Institute, Chair of the Rotary International Youth Exchange Committee, and AILA mentor on adjustment of status issues. She was awarded the Woman of the Year Award by the Soroptimist club in 2002, the Andrew J. Clement Award for Pro Bono Service to the Community by the Lane County Bar and the Pro Bono Award by AILA in 2018. She also received the Gerald H. Robinson Award for excellence in immigration advocacy from the Oregon Chapter of AILA in 2018.

Philip Hornik Philip Hornik has practiced Immigration law in Portland since 1977. He has had his own law office since 1980. He is a frequent speaker at local, regional and national Immigration law conferences. He has been the update editor of several Thomson Reuters Immigration law treatises including "Immigration Law and Defense" which he had edited since 1991. In 2006, he was awarded the Oregon AILA chapter's Gerald H. Robinson award for his commitment to advocacy and excellence in the practice of Immigration law. When Phil isn't practicing immigration law, you are most likely to find him playing guitar or bass with a number of Portland bands.

Cynthia Irvine Cynthia A. Irvine has practiced exclusively in the area of immigration law for over 22 years. She is a founding partner of Hanis Irvine Prothero, PLLC, located in Kent, Washington and leads the Immigration Department of the firm. After graduating from law school with honors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cynthia was selected by the U.S. Department of Justice Honor’s Program to be the Judicial Law Clerk for the Seattle Immigration Court. Her private practice focuses on family-based immigration matters, waiver applications, U visas, consular processing, removal defense, and administrative and federal court appeals. Cynthia is fluent in Spanish and speaks weekly on a local Hispanic radio station regarding immigration issues. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), having served as in numerous roles on the Executive Committee of the Washington State Chapter, including Chapter Chair in 2016-2017.

Kristin Kyrka Kristin Kyrka is an associate attorney at Higuera & VanDerhoef PLLC, where her practice focuses on removal defense, including serving as appointed counsel for detained individuals found mentally incompetent under the Franco Gonzalez litigation. She is a member of the Washington Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), where she currently serves as chair of the Tacoma EOIR liaison committee, and she volunteers as a pro bono attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

Jaime Langton Jaime Langton has practiced law since 2009 and practices exclusively in Immigration law. Ms. Langton is a member of the Oregon State Bar, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Oregon Chapter of AILA. Ms. Langton is a graduate of the Willamette University School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from Eastern Washington University.

Ms. Langton has handled many bond cases before the Northwest Detention Center. Ms. Langton has handled many cases before the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), formerly known as Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and now a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Langton has handled many interviews for Immigration benefits in front of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), formerly known as INS, and now a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Langton has also handled many removal cases in front of the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). Ms. Langton has both extensive trial and interview experience.

Ms. Langton has handled hundreds of cases and has legalized many people before the various U.S. Consulates throughout the world and through USCIS. Ms. Langton handles family Immigration cases, deportation and removal cases, Immigration bond cases at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma and other Detention Centers, visas for families, and waiver cases for Immigration benefits.

Andrea Lino Andrea Lino graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 and since then she has been working at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project specifically working in removal defense representing detained individuals. Andrea is also a licensed attorney in Guatemala where she represented vulnerable populations in a remote area in Guatemala. In her free time, Andrea enjoys hiking, biking, and being outdoors.

Barbara Marcouiller Barbara A. Marcouiller has been practicing immigration law for over 25 years. She is an attorney with the business law firm of Peterson Russell Kelly PLLC in downtown Bellevue advising businesses and families, as well as auditing I-9’s for mergers/acquisitions of businesses and HSI investigations. Barbara is an active member of AILA and a frequent speaker at AILA and other CLE’s on immigration topics. Barbara earned her Master’s degree from the prestigious Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mari Matsumoto Mari Matsumoto is a partner of the Washington Immigration Defense Group, a small firm in Seattle, Washington focused on family/humanitarian applications and removal defense. She previously worked as the Detention Program Managing Attorney for the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN). In that capacity, she directed the know-your-rights Legal Orientation Program at the Aurora, Colorado detention facility, provided free legal screenings to detainees, and represented detained individuals before the immigration court. Her prior positions include associate attorney positions at Lichter Immigration in Denver, Colorado and Gibbs Houston Pauw in Seattle Washington. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007.

Luz Metz Luz Dary Metz is a Washington State lawyer focusing on Immigration Law. Luz dedicates her practice to assisting clients obtain family and employment-based visas, non-immigrant visas, and citizenship. Luz has also helped her clients obtain asylum in the United States. An immigrant herself, Luz is passionate about helping people from different countries and cultural backgrounds obtain legal status in the United States. Luz has assisted her clients obtain and retain immigrant visas in difficult circumstances, including obtaining waivers for illegal presence, removal of spousal visa conditions after divorce, deferred actions and temporary status based on humanitarian relief.

Luz practiced law in Colombia for seven years and retains her license there. She also holds a Master’s of Business Administration degree. Luz volunteers for the CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) Program Member of AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Women MBAs and the Latina Bar Association.

Deborah Niedermeyer Deborah Niedermeyer is a Northwest native and a graduate of and New York University School of Law. In 2015 she received the Washington State Bar’s highest award, the Award of Merit, from the Washington State Bar Association for her pioneering work (with colleague Manuel Rios) in using consumer protection law to attack “notario fraud”. She is of counsel to the Seattle law firm of Rios & Cruz and currently serves as volunteer adjunct bar counsel for the Washington State Bar Association.

Sarah Purce Sarah Purce is the Lead Attorney and Rural Program Coordinator for Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services. Sarah has been working as an immigration attorney since 2009. Her work focuses primarily on representing immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Sarah received her undergraduate degree from Western Washington University and she graduated cum laude from the American University, Washington College of Law in 2009. Sarah is a member of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA), Oregon State Bar (OSB), and is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Sarah also serves as the chair of the Oregon Department of Justice’s Immigrant Crime Victims’ Rights subcommittee.

Roxana Rahmani Roxana is a staff attorney in the VAWA Unit of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, where she provides direct representation to immigrant survivors of violence. Prior to joining NWIRP as a legal fellow in the Children and Youth Unit, she was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Catharine F. Easterly of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She earned her J.D. from and a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park.

JJ Rollins Joseph Justin Rollin (“J.J.”), co-director of the Oregon Justice Resource Center Immigrant Rights Project, is co-author of several books on the immigration consequences of criminal activity, including N. Tooby, J. Rollin, “Criminal Defense of Immigrants.” He also worked with Mr. Tooby in seeking post-conviction relief for non-citizens in California and nationwide. With the Washington Defender’s Immigration Project, Mr. Rollin assessed the immigration consequences of nearly every criminal statute in Washington State. For the last ten years, he has represented non-citizens with criminal issues before the Portland Immigration Court and USCIS. Prior to entering private practice, he was an Attorney Advisor for Immigration Courts in California and Texas.

Leta Sanchez Leta Sanchez, a member of Chamberlain Sanchez Immigration Law PLLC, practices immigration law exclusively and represents individuals seeking protection under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), asylum, waivers of inadmissibility, litigation before the immigration courts as well as appellate work before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Sanchez is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and a regular participant in outreach efforts in the Skagit Valley, where her practice is based. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the AILA WA State Chapter as the Programs Chair.

Chris Stanislowski Chris is a staff attorney in the Defender Referral and Representation Unit (DRRU). Along with the rest of the DRRU team, he provides in-depth case assessments for individuals detained at the Northwest Detention Center who have clear ties to King County, WA. Following these assessments, Chris provides direct representation to those individuals who are eligible for immigration relief and cannot afford an attorney. DRRU also participates in outreach to public defender offices to ensure that a large number of individuals who are involved in the King County criminal justice system can receive representation in their subsequent immigration cases. Chris earned his J.D. and B.A. from New York University, as well a Masters of Science in Education from the City College of New York.

Margaret Stock Margaret D. Stock is a member of the Alaska Bar who earned her undergraduate, graduate, and law degrees at Harvard University. A retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve Military Police Corps, she was named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow (“genius grant” recipient) by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Margaret is the author of the book, “Immigration Law & the Military,” and co- author of the fifth edition of the book, “Professionals: A Matter of Degree,” with Martin Lawler. She is the principal attorney at Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC in Anchorage, AK.

Christopher Strawn Christopher Strawn is a staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. He is the director of the asylum unit and the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law. Previously he was an associate at the law firm of Gibbs Houston Pauw in Seattle, Washington, and a clerk for the Honorable Marsha J. Pechman, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington. He graduated from Harvard Law School and has a certificate in refugee studies from the University of Oxford.

Maria Zlateva Maria Zlateva is an immigration attorney with offices in Portland and Salem, OR. Her practice focuses on family- based immigration, removal defense, asylum, U-visas and VAWA petitions, BIA and Ninth Circuit appeals. She is a native of Bulgaria and received her law degree from Willamette University College of Law. In addition to her private practice, Maria Zlateva is a clinical law professor at Willamette University. Prior to becoming an attorney, Maria was a professional violinist performing with major orchestras in Europe and the US. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin.