Artist Visas in the Age of COVID
With Teresa Woods Peña
Thursday, July 16, 5pm (Eastern Time)
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Join Woods Law Group’s Principal Attorney, Teresa Woods Peña, for an overview of how to apply for an O Visa. Find out how the current Executive Order, travel restrictions, and closed consulates impact your application. Learn strategies for navigating event cancellations, exhibition postponements, gallery and event space closures, and more. Please bring your questions as there will be an engaging discussion with a Question & Answer session.

This event is free with a suggested donation to the following fund: Guadalupe Maravilla's Mutual Aid Fund for the Undocumented Community, which distributes cash directly to undocumented families in need who have been denied federal stimulus funds. The presentation portion of the event will be recorded, captioned, and posted to our website after the workshop. If you have specific access questions or needs during the event, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org (ideally with at least 48 hours before the event) and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Teresa Woods Peña is an immigration attorney whose work has focused on applications before USCIS. For the past eighteen years, she has zealously advocated for clients seeking to remain in the United States. She has also appeared in immigration court on behalf of clients in removal proceedings and successfully litigated their cases. She has worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and has taught Asylum and Refugee Law at Yeshiva University's Cardozo Law School while leading the Human Rights Clinic’s asylum work. Formerly a Senior Program Associate with the Vera Institute of Justice’s Center on Immigration and Justice and Managing Attorney of KIND’s (Kids in Need of Defense) New York office, she now continues her work by representing artists and innovators looking to make the United States their home.