Scott Mossman Bio
Scott Andrew Mossman is an attorney who has practiced only immigration law since 2003. His practice emphasizes removal (deportation) defense, immigration and naturalization applications for noncitizens with criminal convictions, and appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and Ninth Circuit.
Scott is an attorney licensed to practice law by the State Bar of California and authorized to represent clients before the following courts and agencies:
- Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection
- Board of Immigration Appeals and all U.S. immigration courts
- United States embassies and consulates
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits
- United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts of California
- Supreme Court of California, and all lower California courts
Scott Mossman is involved in the following professional activities:
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) member since 2004.
- Co-liaison for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), AILA Northern California Chapter, from 2010 to present.
- Board member, U.C. Davis Immigration Law Clinic Alumni Council.
Scott received his law degree from the University of California, Davis, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class. In law school, Scott was active in the Immigration Law Clinic and the King Hall Immigrant Detainee Project. During the second year of law school, he served as a legal extern for a judge at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He also spent a summer as a law clerk at the State Bar of California, Office of the Chief Trial Counsel (the disciplinary arm of the State Bar).
Scott graduated magna cum laude from California State University, Sacramento, with a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice.
Speaking Engagements & Community Service:
- On September 30, 2011, Scott, two presenters from the ILRC, and a deputy public defender presented a 3 hour MCLE on minimizing the immigration consequences of criminal pleas at the Nevada County Superior Court.
- On August 31, 2011, Scott Mossman and a co-panelist gave a presentation at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco on U nonimmigrant petitions and visas.
- On March 18, 2011, Scott Mossman and a co-panelist gave a presentation about CBP procedures, expedited removal, and voluntary departure to staff from CRLAF and the consular protection department at the Consulate of Mexico in Sacramento.
- Scott presented an MCLE entitled Practical Immigration Info for Criminal Defense Attorneys on March 25 and February 18, 2011, which covered the petty offense exception to the crime of moral turpitude (CMT) ground of inadmissibility, the immigration consequences of DUI’s, controlling the record of conviction for divisible offenses, and an introduction to ICE holds and removal proceedings.
- On February 2, 2011, Scott gave a CBP basics presentation to the New Members Division of the AILA Northern California Chapter.
- Scott served as a panelist for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) updates presentation at the AILA California Chapters Annual Conference on November 11-13, 2010. His fellow AILA Northern California CBP co-liaison and two officials from the CBP San Francisco Field Office also were on the panel. The featured topics included recent changes to deferred inspection policy for persons with criminal convictions or possible abandonment of residence; the use of expedited removal (immediate removal from the U.S. at the port of entry); the expanding scope of CBP responsibility; and the exercise of CBP waiver and parole authority.
- Scott gave a presentation on naturalization issues to a citizenship class at the Fremont Adult School on March 30, 2010.
- Scott and a co-panelist gave a presentation on the one-year asylum bar and exceptions in a webinar presented by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) on March 11, 2010.
- Scott and co-panelists gave a presentation on basic asylum law and procedure in a webinar presented by the ILRC on November 18, 2009. He spoke about the mandatory bars to asylum and the procedures for applications to USCIS and immigration judges.
- Scott gave a presentation at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall on representing asylum applicants before the Asylum Office to law students in the California Asylum Representation Clinic on August 29, 2009.
- Scott and a co-panelist gave a presentation on unlawful presence, the permanent bar, and the Ninth Circuit’s decisions in Duran-Gonzalez, Perez-Gonzalez, and Acosta at the August meeting of Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
- Scott served as a panelist on the Inadmissibility & Deportability webinar presented by the ILRC on April 15, 2009. He spoke about the grounds of inadmissibility and deportability for fraud/misrepresentation, false claims to U.S. citizenship, unlawful re-entry after a prior removal or more than one year of unlawful presence (the “permanent bar”), and public charge concerns.
- Scott participated in an advice clinic organized by ILRC and Oakland Community Organizations at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Oakland, on February 1, 2009.
- Scott participated in an advice clinic organized by ILRC and Oakland Community Organizations at St. Jarlath Catholic Church in Oakland, on January 22, 2009.
- Scott and two co-panelists gave a presentation on the pro-bono attorney/interpreter/mentor team for persons interested in volunteering for the asylum program of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco on September 23, 2008.
- Scott gave a presentation at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall on representing asylum applicants before the Asylum Office to law students in the California Asylum Representation Clinic on September 6, 2008.
- Scott spoke about immigrant rights and eligibility for benefits at the Western Service Workers Association office in West Oakland on February 23, 2008.
- Scott participated in an advice clinic organized by ILRC and Oakland Community Organizations at St. Anthony Catholic Church, on February 17, 2008.
- Scott served as a panel commentator on Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication, an important study by Professors Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag, at Stanford Law School on October 18, 2007.
- Immigration Daily published an article by Scott Mossman entitled An Invitation To Dialogue To Improve Adjudication In Removal Proceedings, on October 11, 2007.
- Scott discussed the role of a mentor attorney in pro bono asylum cases at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco on September 18, 2007.
- Scott moderated a presentation on ethical witness preparation at a lawyer education event on September 15, 2007, at U.C. Davis School of Law.
- Scott discussed Social Security no-match letters, Real ID driver’s license requirements, immigrant rights, and immigration reform with members of the Roofer’s and Waterproofer’s Local Union No. 40 in San Francisco on July 19, 2007.
- Scott was the principal author of two sections of the report of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission published in November 2006: Real ID Act: A Federal Law’s Impact on the Human and Civil Rights of San Franciscans.
- Scott Mossman published an article in the October 2006 issue of Verdict, the journal of the National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals, entitled Restriction of Judicial Review in Immigration Cases. (Article provided courtesy of Verdict, 233 Broadway, Suite 1807, New York NY 10279, (212) 791-1364.)
- Scott published an article, The USCIS Ombudsman’s Proposal To Restrict The Jurisdiction Of The Asylum Office Would Waste Resources, Inhibit Government Scrutiny Of The Applications, And Do Nothing To Reduce Fraudulent Claims, in the May 1, 2006, edition of Immigration Daily.
- Scott and other speakers discussed immigration enforcement legislation at a town hall meeting, Current Immigration Reform: Bordering on Injustice?, sponsored by the UC Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal. The event took place on March 29, 2006. EVENT FLYER
- Scott published an article,
- A June 15, 2005, East Bay Express article on how REAL ID could affect victims of torture quoted Scott.
- On May 26, 2005, Scott Mossman and other representatives from labor, civil rights, and immigrant rights groups testified before the San Francisco Human Rights Commission about the REAL ID Act and the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Scott published an article,
- Scott appeared as a guest on the Karel Show on
- Scott participated in a block party at Lincoln Park, East Oakland, to educate youth about deportation on April 30, 2005. Asian & Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership and Oakland Asian Students Educational Services organized the event.
