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Learn How Immigration Services Fit into Multidisciplinary Law Student Clinics

published April 16, 2023

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Immigration services are a vital part of any multidisciplinary law student clinic and can be invaluable to clients. Immigration services can include a variety of services depending on the specific needs of the client. These services include immigration advice, filing immigration forms, assisting with immigration interviews, and immigration document assistance. All of these services can be provided by a multidisciplinary law student clinic and can be extremely beneficial for clients.


Many immigration services can be provided by a multidisciplinary law student clinic. These services include immigration advice, filing immigration forms, helping with immigration interviews, and immigration document assistance. Immigration advice can be provided to the client to assist them in understanding their legal rights and obligations under immigration law, providing advice on the steps needed to successfully apply for immigration benefits, and assisting with preparing for immigration interviews. Filing immigration forms can be done by a multidisciplinary law student clinic to ensure that the proper paperwork is filed with the immigration authorities. In addition to filing immigration forms, a multidisciplinary law student clinic can assist with immigration interviews by researching and preparing the client for the immigration interview, helping them understand the questions they will be asked, and coaching them on how to answer the questions. Finally, immigration document assistance can be provided by the multidisciplinary law student clinic in order to help the client understand the specific requirements and documents needed to apply for immigration benefits.

Immigration services can be invaluable to clients. They provide more than just legal advice, they also provide emotional support and advocacy. Immigration services can help the client understand their legal rights and obligations under immigration laws, assist with necessary paperwork, prepare for immigration interviews, and provide document assistance. Moreover, the services provided can help the client address any issues that may arise throughout the immigration process.

Overall, immigration services are an essential part of any multidisciplinary law student clinic. These services provide a variety of benefits to clients, from legal advice to emotional support and advocacy. By providing these services, a multidisciplinary law student clinic can give clients the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the complex immigration process. Immigration services are a valuable and necessary part of any multidisciplinary law student clinic.
 

Understanding Immigration Services


Immigration services are an important part of a multidisciplinary law student clinic. Law students provide vital legal services to immigrants who are seeking a better life in the United States. Through these clinics, law students gain practical experience in immigration law that is invaluable as they become lawyers. The clinics provide real experience of what immigration law is like in the real world.
 

Immigration Law and Its Complexities


Immigration law is complex and ever changing. Students gain an understanding of the complexities of immigration issues such as visas, green cards, and other immigration-related matters. They learn about the immigration process and how to best assist immigrants in obtaining the necessary documents and legal representation. This allows them to become more well-rounded immigration lawyers.
 

How Multidisciplinary Law Student Clinics Help Immigrants


Multidisciplinary law student clinics provide a much-needed service to immigrants. In one clinic, immigrants can receive legal advice, resources, and representation that they might not be able to find elsewhere. These clinics help individuals who are seeking asylum, refuge, or other forms of relief. Students gain an understanding of the cultural and economic issues involved in representing immigrants and can apply this knowledge to their future practice.
 

The Role of Immigration Services in a Multidisciplinary Law Student Clinic


Immigration services play an important role in a multidisciplinary law student clinic. Students provide information and legal services to immigrants on a wide range of topics. In addition, they provide advice on the best course of action for immigrants who are seeking a better life in the United States. The clinics also help students better understand the complexities of immigration law and the challenges immigrants face.
 

Benefits of Working with a Multidisciplinary Law Student Clinic


Working in a multidisciplinary law student clinic is an excellent way for law students to gain real-world experience in immigration law. Students benefit from the expertise of other students and faculty. They also gain hands-on experience in representing immigrants in various legal matters. Working in a multidisciplinary clinic helps law students become more knowledgeable, well-rounded lawyers who understand the complexities of immigration law.

There are many law students working at the center now in all areas of its legal services, including workers' compensation and consumer rights. We chose to profile a few of those working in the clinical immigration programs&nmdash;third-year Kirsten Bowman and second-years Angela Lytton and John Nguyen&nmdash;to illustrate the center's work.

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In helping to form the clinical immigration services offered at the center, Professor Lynette Parker, supervising attorney for immigration, looked at local services already being offered in the Santa Clara area. As a result, asylum cases, in which returning to a home country could mean persecution or death for a client, make up the majority of the center's cases.

Kirsten Bowman looked for an immigration clinic when applying to law schools. Her ultimate goal is to work in international human rights law, but she also wanted hands-on client service experience, she says.

Last summer and early this past fall, Bowman did research and advocacy writing while clerking for judges with the United Nations Milosevic trial in The Hague, Netherlands, and the Bagosora trial in Tanzania. It was "really fascinating. I loved it," she says.

Now, at the law center, Bowman is working on a political asylum case for a law center client from Africa. Since these cases move quickly, she "will be able to go through the whole process" with the client, she says, from putting together the country conditions report needed for the application to attending the client's interview with the U.S. Government.

The client is part of a persecuted group in his home country, says Bowman, in which the government is not taking action against the persecutors. Bowman included information from the State Department, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and newspaper articles in the country conditions report. She also included letters from the client's family and friends, police reports, and hospital reports.

The client's interview is in a few days. Bowman will attend it and ask him questions at the end of the interview to fill in any gaps in the information shared to that point.

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The center's law students, under Parker's direct supervision, also work on some deportation defenses, self-petitions for abused women seeing citizenship, U-visas for victims of crime in the United States, and T-visas for victims of human trafficking.

Under the Violence Against Women Act, there is a provision allowing for immigrant women who are being abused by their husbands to apply on their own for citizenship. Usually a spouse's petition is required, but in an abusive relationship, it is often withheld. Women must prove the abuse&nmdash;which can be done with testimony from neighbors or friends, says Parker&nmdash;and then can proceed with a self-petition for residence.

T-visas are also relatively new on the immigration scene and benefit those who have been victims of human trafficking. There is increasing funding to identify victims, says Parker; the law center is now working with the Santa Clara County Anti-Trafficking Task Force on the issue.

A U-visa allows immigrants who are victims of violent crime in the United States to get legal residency status if they are willing to help law enforcement authorities in solving the crime, explains Parker. The provision is part of a law passed in 2000; "it's fairly new," says Parker, "and good for students to learn."

Angela Lytton is working on a U-visa case for a Somali woman who is from a tribe currently being persecuted in that country. If the client is sent back, she could be killed. "That's difficult to deal with," says Lytton. The woman was told to lie by a local on her first asylum application; Lytton is hoping to buttress the U-visa application with the woman's willingness to help authorities in their investigation of the local man.

In another U-visa case, second-year John Nguyen is helping a client who was injured in a drive-by shooting that left him in a wheelchair. "There are a lot of sad stories out there," says Nguyen.

Learning how to interview clients to get the necessary information is a valuable skill he has learned while working at the center, says Nguyen. For clients, it is "hard for them to tell someone they just met their life stories," he says, especially when highly personal details of abuse or suffering may be the information needed to become legal residents.

Helping people who need it so much through the clinic is "invigorating," says Lytton, who will work at the law center full time this summer on a fellowship from the law school. Although many law students secure jobs after graduation with the firms they work in over their second summers, Lytton stands by her choice. "I don't want to do anything I'm not passionate about," she says. It may be "tough financially," she says, but she sticks by her goal of doing immigration or refugee legal services after graduation.

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