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 2
- 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
- Wednesday, March 30, 7pm-8:30pm (TNH 2.123) OR Thursday, March 31, 11:45am-1:15pm (TNH 2.123)
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Allan Elementary School 4900 Gonzales, Austin, Texas 78702
- Address
- 821 Gunter Street, Austin, TX 78702
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 24
- 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 2 and which training session you plan to attend