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Community Fellowship - Immigrant Justice Corps
Date and Time
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Description
Two-year Community Fellowships are awarded to recent college graduates with the linguistic skills, passion, and cultural competency to work with diverse immigrant communities. See Community Fellowship - Immigrant Justice Corps for more information.
Eligibility
- Applicants may currently be enrolled in an undergraduate degree, so long as they will be graduating by the Spring of the Fellowship start year. For example, if you are graduating in Spring 202X you will be eligible to apply to the Class of 202X.
- Applicants may have graduated from college no more than two years prior to the start of the Fellowship.
Immigrant Justice Corps seeks Fellows who are smart, compassionate, and passionate about justice for immigrants. Fellows must be dedicated to the idea of a fellowship program – you give us two years of hard work and we will make sure you are immersed in immigration law and prepared to help immigrants who otherwise cannot afford quality representation. Almost all IJC Fellows are fluent in at least two languages, including English.
Community Fellows become partially accredited representatives through the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Access Programs, allowing them to represent clients in legal matters before the Department of Homeland Security. They are placed in community-based organizations mostly in and around New York City as well as in other states.
IJC Fellows are provided a full salary and benefits.
Community Fellows spend most days meeting with clients, conducting legal screenings and completing applications for immigration benefits. Throughout the fellowship, Community Fellows carry their own caseloads and provide a broad range of representation, with the type of assistance depending on their host organization.
Some of our Community Fellows are “in-placed” which means that they are employees of IJC and work in-house at IJC’s headquarters in New York City. Other Community Fellows are “out-placed” which means they become employees of their host organizations and receive supervision directly from legal staff at their host organizations.
This event has been tagged as academic, careercenter, cuse, fellowships, human, humanrights, immigration, and socialjustice.
Contact
For information about this and other fellowships, email [email protected]