After examining rules of professional responsibility in their states, attorneys in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, Oregon, and New Mexico have concluded that the rules would prohibit them from commencing representation of an alien client if they would be required to terminate representation upon the alien's temporary departure from the United States.
Attorneys from New Mexico and Oregon think that their state rules would stop them representing an alien client if they had to later terminate representation of that alien should he or she leave the United States.