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For nationwide statistics and success stories from the most recent year of the SAFE Network, Due Process forAll: Evidence <br />from Year 2 of Being SAFE (New York: Vera Institute of Justice, 2019), https://www.vera.org/publications/a-year-of-being- <br />safe. <br />'To be eligible for representation under SAFE, a client's household income cannot exceed 200 percent of the federal <br />poverty level. <br />9 For a summary of this research, see Karen Berberich and Nina Siulc, Why Does Representation Matter? (New York: Vera <br />Institute of Justice, 2018), https://www.vera.org/publications/why-does-representation-matter. <br />io Of the more than 9,800 completed cases (N=9,821) with access to legal representation in the Adelanto Immigration <br />Court, 28 percent (N=2,712) had successful outcomes that allowed them to remain in the United States —either by being <br />granted relief, having their case terminated, or being closed by prosecutorial discretion. In contrast, of the nearly 57,000 <br />completed cases without representation (N=56,979) heard before the Adelanto Immigration Court over 1,600 (or 3 percent) <br />were successful (N=1,625). See Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), "Details on Deportation Proceedings in <br />Immigration Court," accessed March 22, 2021, https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/nta/. <br />Vera Center on Immigration+Justice <br />