Students will assist Casa Marianella Immigration Legal Services (CMILS) clients at a one-day "lodging" clinic. Students will interview asylum seekers and help them fill out basic asylum applications. These applications then will be "lodged" with the immigration court clerk. Asylum seekers currently are facing very long delays in obtaining court hearings; the "lodging" process allows them to work legally in the United States while their asylum applications are pending and while they wait for a hearing date.
Organization
Casa Marianella Immigration Legal Services
CMILS serves immigrants, asylum-seekers, asylees, and female victims of crime in Austin, Texas. CMILS helps newly arrived immigrants residing in the Casa Marianella and Posada Esperanza shelters, as well as other immigrants below the poverty line, 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, November 7
- Project Time
- 9am-1pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 4 hours, including a 1-hour training session
- Training
- A 1-hour training session will be held on Saturday, November 7 at 9am, immediately before the clinic
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/intake; document preparation
- Project location
- Casa Marianella, 821 Gunter Street
- Address
- 821 Gunter Street, Austin, TX 78702
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 10
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Spanish, French, or Nepali helpful but not necessary
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest and indicating if you have any foreign language skills to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu