Seminars
and Webinars
In the 1990s,
thePIgroup (www.thePIgroup.com)
pioneered the use of online investigative
interactive training and 'webinars':
interactive training via the
Internet
amongst the investigative professions.
Such interactive --and
free-- round-table discussions
continue in 2011, different topics each
month.
Some of these interactive forums continue for several
days;
members have the choice to either
quietly observe or to jump in and
participate.
Also very popular is online training and simulated practice license test
question sessions
for the California Private Investigator, PPO, and Repossession Agency license examinations,
simulating a computer testing environment and the time limitations to answer.
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The current on-line Continuing Education
'webinar' available to
members of thePIgroup:
'Pretexting-- when is it not OK?'
(GLB Act, CFIPA, and more)
Participating Members Only; no fee!
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Last three on-line CE topics:
---Pretexting
---Locating Assets
---'Secret' and little-known sources and techniques
For our polygraph members:
FREE two-day in-person Workshop:
1: CE
Polygraph Fundamentals Skills Update Workshop
2: CE
Immigration Polygraph basics workshop
January 14-15, 2011 in Van Nuys CA
Need spelling of your name in advance
for your Continuing
Education certificates.
Next 2011 Immigration Polygraph Seminars
(basics and advanced combined)
in-person schedule to be
posted here soon.
2011 Immigration Polygraph
in-person seminar
copyrighted
material handouts typically
include:
IMMIGRATION/ASYLUM/REFUGEE POLYGRAPHS
Polygraph for
Immigration / Asylum / Refugee applicants
Information on the US Asylum
Program
Asylum polygraph information
Acronyms involved
with
Immigration/Asylum/Refugee matters
(Know what these initials stand
for, or risk looking
uninformed when dealing with immigration
attorneys!)
The US Government’s definition of Asylum
The required
elements of Asylum
What determines a ‘Well-Founded Fear’?
What is
‘Persecution’?
The REAL ID Act of 2005
The REAL ID Act of
2005:
Corroborating Evidence
“ . . . . may require other evidence
to
corroborate otherwise credible testimony”
Key laws involving
Asylum
What is a ‘Merits Hearing’?
Definition of Marriage
Immigration Fraud
Sample: an actual Asylum Hearing appointment
letter
Affidavit of Support (19 pages)
VAWA: Violence Against
Women Act
(increasingly involved in immigration matters)
Websites of
government agencies
connected to immigration/asylum
Definition of
Amnesty
Amnesty information
The major sources of
evidence
Definition of ‘Expert Witness’
Testifying in court as a
Polygraph Expert
Other types of Immigration-related
hearings
Glossary of Immigration terms
More asylum polygraph
information
Bars to Asylum
(no exceptions:
if any of these apply
to an applicant,
asylum will not be granted)
A potential bar to
asylum,
and how to deal with it:
If applicant was a member of
the
military in his homeland.
(As a military member, he may be
considered to
be a ‘persecutor’ himself)
Ineligibility
Inadmissibility
IRCA: Immigration Reform and Control Act
LIFE: Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act
News story, misconduct and
wrongly deporting/denying
Typical technique used, asylum polygraph
examination
Report example, asylum polygraph examination
Example:
declaration, under penalty of perjury
(when submitting a polygraph report
into court evidence;
often done on ‘pleading –numbered- paper’)
Sample
sheet: pleading paper
(you can photocopy)
News story involving
immigration and polygraph
Example:
website of an Immigration/Asylum
polygraph specialist
Using an Interpreter
(Federal
training)
Using an Interpreter
(additional Federal
training)
Federal Rules of Evidence
(Article VII: Opinions and Expert
Testimony)
Federal Rule of Evidence 702
(Testimony by Experts:
qualified by knowledge,
skill, experience, training, or
education)
Immigration/Asylum textbooks
(build your library)
and more!
--- Dates and specifications are subject to
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