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, October 6
- Project Time
- 3pm-7pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 6 hours, including training
- Training
- Thursday, October 5, 12pm-1pm (Law School, CCJ 1.312)
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/intake; trauma-informed interviewing; community education
- Project location
- Law School, Various Rooms
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 10
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Spanish language skills helpful but not necessary; cultural competency and attention to detail
- To Apply
- Register at https://asylum10-6-23.eventbrite.com