[Hamp-law] Immigrant Justice Corps, 2 year Paid Legal Fellowship, Mar 15 deadline

[Carin Rank, CORC]

Applications for our 2018 Community Fellowship program are now open 
through March 15,2018.


  *Immigrant Justice Corps Community Fellow Application is Now Open!*

*About Immigrant Justice Corps:*

Immigrant Justice Corps (“IJC”), is the nation’s first and only 
immigration legal fellowship program. IJC seeks to expand access to 
counsel by increasing the quantity of immigration lawyers and the 
quality of the immigration bar. Each year IJC recruits talented young 
lawyers (“Justice Fellows”) and college graduates (“Community Fellows”) 
many of whom are first-generation immigrants and bi-lingual graduates 
from the country’s top universities, for a two-year fellowship.  IJC 
trains Fellows to be experts in immigration law and pairs them with 
leading non-profit legal services providers and community based 
organizations in New York City, Long Island, the Lower Hudson Valley, 
New Jersey, Connecticut, and Texas to provide legal services to low 
income immigrants.

The Fellows provide a broad range of immigration services including 
deportation defense, applications for asylum, naturalization, green 
cards and other forms of relief available to juveniles and victims of 
crime, domestic violence or human trafficking.  Quality legal assistance 
allows immigrants to avoid deportation and separation of families. 
Immigrants who can to improve their legal status are better able to gain 
lawful employment, receive financial aid to college, access health care 
and live stable, productive lives in the United States.

IJC is infusing the legal profession with a new generation of lawyers 
and advocates committed to providing high quality representation and 
innovative thinking about the delivery of legal services to a vulnerable 
population, including the use of new technologies.

*About the Community Fellowship*

Community Fellows are recent college graduates who conduct outreach and 
legal intake in underserved neighborhoods in and around New York.  
Community Fellowships run for two years, at a salary of $38,000 per year 
plus benefits. Fellows will be trained by Immigrant Justice Corps at the 
start of their fellowship and will meet as a group throughout the course 
of the fellowship for professional development, skills training, and 
support. The Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship provides an excellent 
experience for recent graduates considering a career in law and/or 
immigrant rights advocacy.

Community Fellows work 40 hours a week, which may include weekend and 
evening hours to meet the needs of immigrants.  They screen immigrants 
for legal relief, and help them file applications for citizenship, green 
cards, DACA, and more. Community Fellows will become Board of 
Immigration Appeals accredited representatives.  Community Fellows are 
placed in community-based host organizations in and around New York 
City, and their work is directly supervised by Immigrant Justice Corps’ 
staff attorneys.  Flexibility, a strong work ethic, and a good attitude 
are necessary characteristics for Community Fellows.

IJC seeks Fellows who are smart, compassionate, and passionate about 
justice for immigrants.  IJC also seeks Fellows dedicated to the idea of 
a Fellowship program – you give us two years of hard work and we will 
make sure you will be immersed in immigration law and helping others who 
likely would not have had an attorney or advocate otherwise.  Almost all 
IJC Fellows speak a language in addition to English.

Because our Fellows are placed at many different partnering host 
organizations every Fellow’s experience is unique.  Community Fellows 
work on a high volume of “light touch” cases.  That means Community 
Fellows spend most days meeting with clients, conducting screenings and 
completing applications.  The most common types of applications that 
Community Fellows work on are applications for naturalization, DACA, 
green card renewals, and Temporary Protected Status.



	APPLY NOW! <https://ijc.fluidreview.com/>


www.justicecorps.org<http://www.justicecorps.org>**

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*Carin Rank* |*Director*

*Hampshire College *| *Career Options Resource Center*

413.559.5385 | crank at hampshire.edu <mailto:crank at hampshire.edu> | 
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