Early Adjustment Pathway For T Visa Winners

During the second hour, the following questions and answers will be reviewed in detail by Helen Tarokic:

• How to know if your T visa case is approved – ACF email, online 765 status of c-25, or actual paper approval
• Talking to clients about T approvals
• Close out emails
• Early DOJ letter requests
• The 3 easy affidavits
• What to include vs optional to leave out
• Discussion of considerations in early adjustment – billing, removal, derivatives, TVAP, therapy, benefits, timelines
• Q&A

Speakers: Helen Tarokic (Attorney, Wilmington, NC)

Speaker Qualifications:

Helen Tarokic is the owner of Helen Tarokic Law PLLC. She is the author of Ignite your Practice with the T Visa. She is a NC Board Certified Immigration Law Specialist who handles anti-trafficking casework, including T and U visas for victims of crime. Attorney Tarokic graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law in August of 2006. She is a licensed attorney in Wilmington, NC. She is an active AILA Member. She speaks English, Spanish, and Croatian. Her law firm handles many different types of immigration & naturalization matters, including business immigration, family-based cases, humanitarian applications, non-detained removal defense, and U.S. citizenship applications. She has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and has co-counseled on litigation related to immigration categories including T, U, H-1B and permanent residency.

Speakers: Emma Buckthal

Speaker Qualifications: Emma Buckthal is an immigration attorney near Buffalo, New York. She was a one of the FBI's 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award Recipients. In a ceremony at FBI Headquarters on May 3, 2019, Director Christopher Wray recognized the recipients of the 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award. These leaders, selected by their area FBI field office, have demonstrated outstanding contributions to their local communities through service. She received her JD summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo Law School, and her BA magna cum laude from Alfred University. She worked for the Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) from 2010 to 2022.

There, she focused her legal work on immigrants before USCIS, EOIR, and ICE. Before joining VLP, she volunteered at VLP for three years as a student intern, and spent summers at Kalikova & Associates in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and Chadbourne and Parke LLP in New York, New York. She also taught English in Taiwan before attending law school. Emma is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Arabic and Turkish.

Rules on recording:

• This will not be recorded so please join us for the live virtual

• All participants must honor these rules as the discussion topics are sensitive and involve law enforcement issues.

• Third-party recordings or participant recordings are strictly forbidden.

North Carolina CLE will be requested by Helen Tarokic Law PLLC

• NC CLE credit will be requested since the organizer is based in North Carolina

• Attorneys licensed outside of NC can attend. A certificate of attendance will be provided upon request for those who need proof of attendance.

• Attorney-supervised paralegals may attend for educational purposes.

• Attorney-supervised means the paralegal must be employed by a licensed attorney and under regular supervision to prevent the unauthorized practice of law.

• Attorneys signing up paralegals take responsibility for their employee’s registration fees and participation in the program and agree to pay full and fair wages for time the paralegal trains in the seminar as part of work hours/on-the-job training.

This is an interdisciplinary seminar, so please be mindful that we will have individuals of various levels of knowledge attending and have law enforcement, therapists, and other anti-trafficking professionals in attendance. It will be an excellent opportunity for all.