Student volunteers will help qualifying individuals complete citizenship applications. The citizenship drive is being held in partnership with a number of organizations, including Education Austin, the National Education Association, NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected Officials), and Univision.
Organization
Casa Marianella Immigration Legal Services
CMILS serves immigrants, asylum-seekers, asylees, and victims of crime in Austin, Texas. CMILS helps immigrants residing in the Casa Marianella and Posada Esperanza shelters and qualifying community members in applying for work permits, renewing green cards, seeking asylum, petitioning for family members, preparing applications for U Visas, and dealing with other immigration legal matters.
Project Details
- Website
- http://www.casamarianella.org/
- Project Date
Saturday, April 1
- Project Time
- 9am-4pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 6-9 hours, including training session; Students may sign up to work 9am-1pm, noon-4pm, or 9am-4pm
- Training
- Thursday, March 30 from 11:45am to 1pm in TNH 3.142
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Allan Elementary School 4900 Gonzales, Austin, Texas 78702
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 24 (12 morning shift, 12 afternoon shift)
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Spanish helpful but not necessary
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu; please indicate what shift you want to work on April 1, whether you will be at the training session on March 30 (the training session is not required if you participated in the Fall 2016 citizenship drive), and your t-shirt size