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Hybrid Senior Paralegal
Posted 4 months ago
About the role
- Senior Paralegal providing legal services in immigration matters at IRCO. Specifically supporting clients through affirmation and defense cases with a focus on trauma-informed care.
Responsibilities
- Support a Lead Immigration Attorney and other attorneys in providing legal services representing clients in defensive and affirmative cases, including: Removal defense: defense against deportation, including the filing of Asylum/Withholding of Removal/Cancellation of Removal/Motions to Change Venue/Prosecutorial Requests/SIJS predicate orders.
- Affirmative matters: including naturalization, adjustment of status, temporary protected status, asylum, family petition, VAWA, U & T visas, and employment authorization.
- Daily communications and meetings with attorneys, clients, staff, and USCIS regarding ongoing cases.
- Conduct legal research and draft legal briefs and other documents for attorneys.
- Investigate and gather facts for cases, petitions, and applications.
- Record case management data in physical files, OneDrive, and LawLab in accordance with laws, industry standards, and in-house procedures; and assist in compiling data for program reporting as needed.
- Obtain U visa certifications, police records, court records.
- Submit FOIA requests to CBP, USCIS, Department of State, and the FBI.
- Assist in creating educational materials about immigration processes and rights for staff and the public.
- Assist with other immigration legal services projects and duties as assigned, such as attending and assisting at local in-person legal clinics organized by IRCO.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree, or foreign educational equivalent, in Paralegal or Legal Studies;
- 2 years of experience as a Paralegal or Legal Assistant, to include the following, which may have been gained concurrently: 2 years of immigration experience in a non-profit legal services setting.
- 2 years of experience supporting attorneys in both affirmative and defensive immigration matters, including removal and related defensive applications, asylum, U & T visas, VAWA, deferred action, naturalization, adjustment of status, family petitions, and employment authorization.
- 2 years of experience preparing immigration-related application and petition forms and supporting documents for immigration court and USCIS filings, including I-589, I-360, I-765, N-400, I-485, I-821, I-589, I-730, and I-130.
- Demonstrated experience providing trauma-informed immigration legal services to vulnerable communities.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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