Trainings/Presentations
USCIS: Officer Training and Eliciting Testimony (Oct 2021)
This training module instructs students on how to elicit information from an interviewee in a non-adversarial manner; how to probe appropriately to elicit necessary information, the types of questions to ask, and questioning techniques to use.
USCIS Officer Training: Particular Social Group (PSG)
This module discusses membership in a particular social group (PSG), one of the protected grounds in the refugee definition as codified in the Immigration and Nationality Act. zorb ball
USCIS Officer Training: Firm Resettlement
This module provides an overview of the firm resettlement bars for asylum and refugee resettlement.wibit sports
USCIS Officer Training: Children’s Claims
This module provides guidelines for adjudicating children’s claims.
USCIS Officer Training: Guidance for LGBTI Refugee and Asylum Claims
This module provides guidelines for adjudicating and considering immigration benefits, petitions, protections, and other immigration-related requests by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals inflatable maze.
USCIS Officer Training: International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) and Religious Persecution
This module introduces you to the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) and the responsibilities that the Act creates for adjudicating protection claims human whack a mole.
USCIS Officer Training: Sources of Authority
This module describes the legal sources that provide officers in the RAIO Directorate with the authority to make case decisions and determinations. It also describes the sources of law you must follow when making those decisions and determinations and demonstrates how to properly cite to them.
USCIS: RAIO Directorate Officer Training – Refugee Definition (Dec 2019)
This module discusses the definition of a refugee as codified in the Immigration and Nationality Act and its interpretation in administrative and judicial case law.
USCIS: Terrorism Related Inadmissibility Grounds (TRIG)
This module identifies facts and situations giving rise to the terrorist-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG) and determining whether or not the grounds apply east jump.
USCIS Officer Training: Credibility
This module provides guidance on elevating the credibility of an applicant’s testimony, factors upon which a credibility determination may be based, factors upon which a gold medicals credibility finding may not be based east jump, and how to determine whether any non-credible aspects of a claim affect eligibility.