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Crossing Borders: Understanding Immigration Law's Overlaps with Other Practice Areas

Essential insights into how immigration status intersects with family, criminal, employment, and tax law.

Created byNYS Academy of Trial Lawyers
BeginnerUpdated Oct 5, 2026
Crossing Borders: Understanding Immigration Law's Overlaps with Other Practice Areas

What You'll Learn

check_circleAnalyze the intersection of immigration law with family, criminal, and employment practice areas
check_circleIdentify key grounds of inadmissibility and deportability under the Immigration and Nationality Act
check_circleEvaluate the impact of criminal convictions on immigration status and potential collateral consequences
check_circleApply knowledge of visa classifications and status maintenance to advise clients effectively
check_circleAssess the requirements for family-based and employment-based immigration petitions

About This Course

This CLE explores how U.S. immigration law interacts with family, tax, elder, and personal injury law.

Topics will include affidavits of support, child/adoption rules, abandonment of status, public charge issues, the challenges of bringing cases or receiving settlements when not a U.S. citizen, and more.

Attorneys will learn to spot potential pitfalls early so they can be prepared.

Topics Covered:

  • Federal immigration agencies and administration
  • Nonimmigrant visa categories and status maintenance
  • Inadmissibility and deportability grounds
  • Intersection of criminal defense and immigration law
  • Family-based immigration and conditional residence
  • Employment-based visa processes and labor certification
  • Asylum, refugee status, and removal proceedings
  • Public charge rules and financial support requirements

Your Instructors

NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers
NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers
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The NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers is the largest statewide trial bar in the US with 5,700+ lawyer and judge members. We are committed to protecting, preserving and enhancing the civil justice system. Our highly acclaimed CLE programming features extraordinary presenters covering the most timely and important topics.

Lindsay  Curcio, Esq.
Lindsay Curcio, Esq.

Attorney at Law Office of Lindsay A. Curcio

Lindsay A. Curcio has practiced U.S. immigration law since 1990. She has been a solo practitioner since October 2000. Originally from Chicago, previously based in Brooklyn, New York, Attorney Curcio is now in Niagara Falls, NY (western New York state). Her practice includes employment-based and family-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas as well as waivers, removal defense, asylum, naturalization, and U.S. citizenship issues. Attorney Curcio taught immigration law as an adjunct professor at New York Law School and Molloy College. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She frequently writes and presents on topics in U.S. immigration law. She is a co-author of the first edition of Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies (Lexis/Carolina Academic Press, 2013). She was a co-director of New York Law School's Justice Action Center's Safe Passage Immigration Project from 2007 to 2012. She has received the Super Lawyers designation for immigration law for her work in the NY Metro Area and subsequently Upstate NY. Attorney Curcio was awarded a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Northwestern University, a juris doctor degree from IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law, an MBA from Fordham University, an LLM in Transnational Commercial Practice from the Center for International Legal Studies/Lazarski University, and a graduate certificate in Health Care Compliance from the University of Pittsburgh Law School.

Credit Information

Professional development requirements vary by profession, country, and regulatory body. Before enrolling, review the course details and confirm that the content, learning format, and any listed credits meet your specific requirements. You are responsible for confirming eligibility with your regulator or professional association and keeping the records required for reporting.

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