2020 WDAIP User Feedback and Needs Survey

Demographic Information

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Office (Preferred)

Email Address (Preferred)

City (Optional)

County*

List all counties in which you practice

Court(s)*

List all courts in which you practice

Accessing Our Resources (Please select all that apply)

1. How do you identify noncitizen defendants and get information about their immigration circumstances?

At first appearance
It is part of my office’s general intake process for all clients
Support staff obtains this information
Other:

Comments:

2. How often do you contact WDAIP for your noncitizen clients’ cases?

For every noncitizen client
For some noncitizen clients

3. If you do not contact us for each noncitizen client, why not?

Too time-consuming
Already know the answer from prior experiences with similar charges
Already know the answer from consulting practice advisory
Already know the answer from consulting with another immigration lawyer
Other:

Comments:

4. If you only contact us for some noncitizen clients, how do you determine when to reach out?

Only for clients with permanent residence (green card) or some other lawful status (e.g., DACA)
Criminal History (e.g., multiple convictions so client likely already deportable or previously deported)
Other:

Comments:

5. How do you access our technical assistance?

Website intake
Email
Phone
Fax

Quality of Case Consultation Responses

Timeliness

6. Do you receive responses from Immigration Project staff by the time you need it?

Yes, most of the time
No, have multiple experiences of not getting timely responses

7. How could we improve?

Content

8. Immigration Project responses to my case consultation requests (check all that apply):

Almost always provide me with information I can understand and give my client to make decisions about resolving their case.
Sometimes provide me with information I can understand and give my client to make decisions about resolving their case.
Are too long and contain too much information that is difficult to understand and share with my client
Are too short and do not contain enough information to understand the consequences and share them with my client.

9. Suggestions to improve our case consultation responses to better assist you?

Immigration Project Practice advisories

10. How do you access the Immigration Practice Advisories?

On WDA’s Immigration Project Resources Page as needed
When included as an attachment in the response to my case consultation request
I do not use or consult the practice advisories

11. When we send you advisories as part of a case consultation response, do you prefer to receive them as:

Attachments to the email
Embedded links to their location on our website
Both

Comments:

12. How do you use the Immigration Project Practice Advisories? (select all that apply)

To supplement my understanding of the information provided in the response to my case consultation request
Instead of submitting a case consultation request
By sharing copies of the crime-specific advisories with my client to help them understand immigration issues and consequences
By giving my noncitizen client a copy of the “Know Your Rights” advisory
Other:

Comments:

13. Please rate the format and substance of the advisories (generally):

Just right (both length and substance)
Format is helpful but substance is not
Substance is accessible and understandable
Not enough information provided
Too much information provided

Comments:

14. Which advisories do you use most often?

Crime-specific (e.g. Theft Advisory)
Procedural (e.g. Deferred Adjudication Agreements Advisory)
Know-Your-Rights for Defendants
Other:

Comments:

15. What topics and/or crimes would you like to see addressed in new practice advisories?

Documentation of Compliance with Padilla Duties

16. How do you document that you have complied with your Padilla duties to provide affirmative, accurate advice about immigration consequences?

I include a copy of the immigration intake and/or WDA case consultation response in client’s file.
I document notes in client’s file when I advise them and substance of the conversation.
I include a copy of the practice advisory relevant to the case in client’s file.
Other:

Comments:

Crimmigration-Related Trainings

17. Format (check all that you have attended)

60 minute webinar
90 minute webinar
In-person presentation (CLE credit)

18. Format (check all that you would consider attending)

60 minute webinar
90 minute webinar
In-person lunchtime presentation (no CLE credit)
In-person lunchtime presentation (CLE credit)
In-person half day CLE
In-person all-day CLE

19. Content: What topics would you like to see presented in the future?

Working with community advocates to enhance representation and support policy advocacy
Strategies for negotiating pleas and sentences to minimize immigration consequences
Identifying and using immigration-safe pre-plea adjudication agreements
Building effective relationships with noncitizen clients, their families and support networks
Other:

Advocacy

Please identify problematic policies and/or practices in your jurisdictions that make it difficult to avoid immigration consequences for your clients. For each issue, please indicate whether it is a problem, is not a problem, or you do not know if it is a problem.

Prosecutors:

Refuse to consider immigration consequences at all?

Yes
No
Don't know

Share information with ICE/CBP?

Yes
No
Don't know

Will not agree to immigration-safe deferred adjudication?

Yes
No
Don't know

Use immigration status against noncitizen clients in court proceedings (e.g. bail, dependency, etc.)?

Yes
No
Don't know

Require waiver of right to Padilla challenges during plea?

Yes
No
Don't know

Other/Comments (please include county and/or court):

Judges:

Refuse continuances when you need them in relation to fulfilling Padilla duties?

Yes
No
Don't know

Refuse to give sentences that minimize immigration consequences (e.g. impose 364 instead of 180 when requested)?

Yes
No
Don't know

Refuse to accept immigration-safe pre-plea deferred adjudication agreements (e.g. SOCs)?

Yes
No
Don't know

Other/Comments (please include county and/or court):

Jails:

Let ICE/CBP interview noncitizens (or suspected noncitizens)?

Yes
No
Don't know

Notify ICE/CBP of release date of noncitizens (or suspected noncitizens)?

Yes
No
Don't know

Hold noncitizens (or suspected noncitizens) for ICE/CBP beyond release time in their criminal case?

Yes
No
Don't know

Other/Comments (please include county and/or court):

21. Are you interested in being involved in advocacy with WDA’s Immigration Project staff to change problematic policies and practices in your jurisdiction?

Yes
No

Comments:

2020 WDAIP User Feed...

Demographic Information

Accessing Our Resources (Please select all that apply)

Quality of Case Consultation Responses

Crimmigration-Related Trainings

Advocacy

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