Students will help asylum-seeking families enrolled in the new Family Expedited Removal Management (FERM) Program prepare for their credible fear interviews with the Asylum Office. Students will work in pairs to provide families with information about the asylum process and help them prepare to convey during their credible fear interviews the reasons they fear to return to their home countries. Asylum is available to immigrants who have fled their home countries because of persecution and/or torture due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
Organization
Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The FERM Asylum Interview Workshop is an internal project of the Mithoff Pro Bono Program, hosted in partnership with the Texas Law Immigration Clinic.
Project Details
- Project Date
Friday, March 22
- Project Time
- 1pm-5pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 6.5 hours, including training and self-study materials
- Training
- Thursday, March 21, 11:45am-1pm (TH 3.126); training is mandatory for all volunteers who have not participated in a previous FERM Asylum Interview Workshop during the 2023-2024 academic year
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/intake; trauma-informed interviewing; community education
- Project location
- Law School, CSO Interview Suites
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 18
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Cultural competency and attention to detail; no knowledge of asylum law, client interviewing, or specific language skills are required but Spanish speakers are encouraged to apply
- To Apply
- Register at https://ferm3-22-24.eventbrite.com