Students will help undocumented students and graduates (aka “DREAMers”) complete applications to renew their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status. DACA renewal will extend their protection from deportation, as well as authorization to work legally, for a period of two years.
Organization
Texas Here to Stay
Texas Here to Stay is a coalition of organizations working together to strengthen our diverse community by ensuring legal information and services for all immigrants in Central Texas. Texas Here to Stay is hosting the DACA renewals clinic in partnership with the University Leadership Initiative.
Project Details
- Project Date
Saturday, September 29
- Project Time
- 9am-1pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 4 hours, including training
- Training
- Students will be trained during the first hour of the event
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/intake; document/preparation review
- Project location
- University Catholic Center, 2010 University Avenue
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 20
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Spanish helpful but not necessary
- To Apply
- Register at bit.ly/DACA0929; you must register for the law student role (intake/complete forms) to receive pro bono credit; please email Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu immediately after the clinic to report your hours