Immigration Compliance for Schools and Religious Institutions: Legal Responsibilities and Risk Management
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE course will educate attorneys advising educational and religious institutions on preparing for immigration action at their facilities.
Outline
- Introduction and legal foundations
- Current enforcement climate: policy changes and lawsuit challenges
- Understanding enforcement actions and what response is allowed
- Proactive preparation of policies, recordkeeping, training, and facilities
- Facilitating family and student support
- Institutionally specific considerations for schools and churches
- Conclusion
Benefits
The panel will review these and other issues:
- The legal foundation concerning student educational rights under Plyler, FERPA, and more
- The policy changes to "sensitive location enforcement" and the effects on institutions and the legal challenges that have followed in Mennonite Church USA, Denver Public Schools, and others
- Differences in DHS raids and audits, warrant types, and how institutions can and cannot respond lawfully when presented with an action
- Best practices for preparing clients on pupil record laws, data collection, safe zones, I-98 management, staff training, and more
- Specific challenges, including sanctuary, harboring, application of religious freedoms, and FERPA compliance
Faculty

Timothy C. D'Arduini
Partner
Klasko Immigration Law Partners
Mr. D’Arduini is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the global... | Read More
Mr. D’Arduini is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the global immigration and mobility, corporate immigration, and worksite compliance teams. He is known for his holistic, collaborative, and proactive approach to managing his clients’ immigration programs and sponsored populations in the United States and across the globe. Mr. D'Arduini thinks critically about his clients’ business goals and devises and tailors immigration strategies that amplify their talent and compliance goals. He primarily serves multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies in financial services, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, health care, insurance, and defense industries. In order to advance their talent attraction, productivity, and retention goals, Mr. D'Arduini advises these clients on policies, procedures, and operating models for sponsoring their foreign national staff members for visas, work authorizations, paths to permanent residence, naturalization, and citizenship. He also has experience advising clients on the immigration-related impact of mergers and acquisitions for companies across multiple sectors and multiple continents.
CloseEarly Discount (through 07/18/25)