1. Post-Conviction Relief and Judicial Review
Speaker: Satnam Singh
5739 Northampton Blvd.
Norfolk, VA 23502
(757)

2. Analyze Immigration Consequences of Criminal Records
Whether the criminal disposition qualifies as a conviction under INA?
What specific immigration provisions apply:
Inadmissibility/deportability?
Forms of relief: waivers, post-conviction relief, and judicial reviews.

3. Is Relief Available Despite Conviction?
Waivers: USCIS or Immigration Court

4. Post-Conviction Relief: Vacating or Amending the Judgment
Convicting Court: Federal or State
Need to Have:
Procedural Mechanism
Writs of Coram Nobis, Coram Vobis, Error
Audita Querala
Legal basis to revisit the conviction
Order to Vacate or Amend
Conviction/Sentence
Personal equities and favorable factors

5. Post-Conviction Relief: Vacating or Amending the Judgment
Basis:
Ineffective assistance of counsel: Padilla, Strickland
Subsequent changes in law or interpretation
Inadvertent errors
Statutory Defects
Procedural Defects
If nothing else : Deferred Action or Deferred Enforced Departure from ICE/ERO

6. Judicial Review If eligible for relief but still denied.
District court: AOS, N-400
Court of Appeals: Removal Orders