Eligible participants can receive up to 1.8 CLE credit hours. AILA will administer CLE credit only to individuals who register and log into the web seminar. AILA cannot verify your attendance and participation in this program unless you register directly for the web seminar and use your name to log in to participate in the program. Therefore, persons who log in or listen in on the web seminar as part of a group will not be able to obtain CLE credit.

Please note that your jurisdiction may limit the amount of distance learning credit you can earn. To view details on your jurisdiction's credit restrictions and CLE requirements, visit the CLE Center.

AILA has filed for CLE and specialized credit in all jurisdictions with mandatory CLE requirements. For details about specific approvals, contact us at cle@aila.org.

• AILA applies for accreditation upon attorneys’ request after participation for the following states: AR, DE, IA, ID, KS, KY, LA, ME, MN, MS, OR, TN and WY. Programs are typically approved.
• Florida and Rhode Island - Attorneys must apply on their own for approval of seminars in FL and RI. Programs are typically approved.
• The OnDemand Recording format does not qualify for CLE credit in the following jurisdictions: MO and PR. Please note that your jurisdiction may limit OnDemand credit based on the date of the original presentation. View the OnDemand Downloadable Expiration Chart for more details.

To receive CLE credit for the live event, attorneys must record web seminar attendance and the CLE code provided within one week of the web seminar date via webCLE.

Contact us at cle@aila.org or visit AILA’s Web Seminar Recordings page for more information about receiving CLE credit for a seminar recording.

Elina M. Santana (DL), Miami, FL

Elina Magaly Santana, Esq. is an immigration attorney at Santana Residency Law, P.A. in Miami, Florida. She focuses her immigration practice on removal defense, waivers, family and marriage-based residency, and asylum. Elina is a past chapter chair of AILA South Florida. She also serves on AILA national’s USCIS case assistance committee, annual conference planning committee, distance learning committee, and the AI conference committee. Elina is a Board Member for Capital Good Fund, one of the administrators of the wildly popular “Nerdy Immigration Lawyers" Facebook group, and manages 20+ immigration specific NIL WhatsApp mentoring groups containing thousands of attorneys nationwide. Elina earned her JD from Boston University School of Law and her BA at New York University. She is a fluent Spanish speaker and was raised in Miami, Florida by a proud Cuban American immigrant family.

Daniel J. Parisi, AILA Board of Governors/Client Resources Committee, Madrid, Spain

Daniel J. Parisi is the founder of DJP Immigration in Madrid, Spain. He has practiced US immigration law since 2003. Having worked for 20 years in the UK and Europe, his practice has a particular focus on consular processing and waivers of inadmissibility. Daniel served on the AILA DOS Liaison Committee for 10 years (2 as Chair) he is an Elected Director on the AILA Board of Governors, and Vice-Chair of the DEI Committee.

Adriana R. Robinson, AILA DOS Liaison Committee, Bethesda, MD

Shobhana Kasturi, Naperville, IL

Shobhana is a proud first-generation immigrant. She graduated from the University of Iowa, College of Law (1995) and is licensed in Illinois/Indiana. She has been practicing law for over 27 years. Her immigration practice is based in Naperville IL and her practice focuses on complex NIV/IV consular processing cases, waivers, SB1, F1/B1/B2 visas, family-based cases, humanitarian based cases (U/Vawa), naturalization and responses to complex RFE’s NOIDS as well as appeals. She is the current secretary for the Asia Pacific Chapter of AILA and is a member of the AILA National Distance Learning Committee.