IILA Afghan Legal Representation Project (Legal Volunteers)

Volunteer Sign-Up for Legal Professionals and Law Students

The Afghan Legal Representation Project is an initiative of IILA to match Afghan evacuees with legal professionals and non-legal volunteers to assist with their immigration-related applications.

Please complete this form if you are interested in providing pro bono legal assistance to Afghan evacuees and potentially asylum seekers from other countries. This is intended for use by law firms, lawyers, and law school clinics who can potentially provide immigration-related legal representation or other assistance, which may include asylum, SIVs, humanitarian parole requests, P1/2 refugee status, TPS, or consular processing, employment-based visas and family reunification.

We are anticipating in providing orientations to legal professionals in May 2022 and matching them with clients in June/July 2022.

If you are a NOT a legal professional, please fill out the volunteer survey here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3WXFN2Y

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* 1. First Name

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* 2. Last Name

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* 3. Email Address

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* 4. Phone Number

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* 5. Job Title

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* 6. Name of Law Firm, Clinic, or Organization

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* 7. If you are responding on behalf of a law firm, please indicate how many attorneys are available from your firm.

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* 8. Are you an attorney admitted to active practice?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 9. What is your legal role?

Immigration attorney

Law student

Paralegal

Attorney in other specialty, please specify:

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* 10. What geographic areas are you willing to volunteer in?

Los Angeles County

Orange County

Riverside County

San Bernardino County

Ventura County

Other (please specify)

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* 11. How many years of immigration law experience do you have, if any?

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* 12. How many hours of pro bono work have you done, if any?

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* 13. What kinds of immigration cases have you handled?

Affirmative asylum

Defensive asylum and withholding of removal

Special Immigrant Visas (SIV)

Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

Adjustment of status

Family-based petitions

Consular processing

Humanitarian parole

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)

U visas

VAWA

Employment-based visas

Other (please specify)

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* 14. If you are experienced immigration attorney, are you willing to mentor and supervise less experienced attorneys or law students in asylum cases?

Yes

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* 15. If yes, how many asylum cases would you be able to mentor?

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* 16. What type of volunteer opportunity are you interested in?

Preparing and filing asylum applications in affirmative or defensive asylum cases

Appearing with clients in asylum interviews

Preparing and filing Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applications

Preparing and filing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications

Conducting legal orientations or trainings

Conducting legal screenings and intakes

Representing clients in consular processing

Preparing and filing humanitarian parole applications

Assisting with employment, student or other non-humanitarian visas

Managing databases and other administrative tasks

Other (please specify)

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* 17. Please indicate your written and spoken proficiency with DARI/FARSI:

	0 - No Proficiency	1 - Elementary Proficiency	2 - Limited Working Proficiency	3 - Professional Working Proficiency	4 - Full Professional Proficiency	5 - Native / Bilingual Proficiency
Written	Written 0 - No Proficiency	Written 1 - Elementary Proficiency	Written 2 - Limited Working Proficiency	Written 3 - Professional Working Proficiency	Written 4 - Full Professional Proficiency	Written 5 - Native / Bilingual Proficiency
Spoken	Spoken 0 - No Proficiency	Spoken 1 - Elementary Proficiency	Spoken 2 - Limited Working Proficiency	Spoken 3 - Professional Working Proficiency	Spoken 4 - Full Professional Proficiency	Spoken 5 - Native / Bilingual Proficiency

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* 18. Please indicate your written and spoken proficiency with PASHTO:

	0 - No Proficiency	1 - Elementary Proficiency	2 - Limited Working Proficiency	3 - Professional Working Proficiency	4 - Full Professional Proficiency	5 - Native / Bilingual Proficiency
Written	Written 0 - No Proficiency	Written 1 - Elementary Proficiency	Written 2 - Limited Working Proficiency	Written 3 - Professional Working Proficiency	Written 4 - Full Professional Proficiency	Written 5 - Native / Bilingual Proficiency
Spoken	Spoken 0 - No Proficiency	Spoken 1 - Elementary Proficiency	Spoken 2 - Limited Working Proficiency	Spoken 3 - Professional Working Proficiency	Spoken 4 - Full Professional Proficiency	Spoken 5 - Native / Bilingual Proficiency

IILA Afghan Legal Representation Project (Legal Volunteers)

Volunteer Sign-Up for Legal Professionals and Law Students

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* 1. First Name

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* 2. Last Name

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* 3. Email Address

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* 4. Phone Number

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* 5. Job Title

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* 6. Name of Law Firm, Clinic, or Organization

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* 7. If you are responding on behalf of a law firm, please indicate how many attorneys are available from your firm.

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* 8. Are you an attorney admitted to active practice?

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* 9. What is your legal role?

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* 10. What geographic areas are you willing to volunteer in?

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* 11. How many years of immigration law experience do you have, if any?

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* 12. How many hours of pro bono work have you done, if any?

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* 13. What kinds of immigration cases have you handled?

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* 14. If you are experienced immigration attorney, are you willing to mentor and supervise less experienced attorneys or law students in asylum cases?

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* 15. If yes, how many asylum cases would you be able to mentor?

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* 16. What type of volunteer opportunity are you interested in?

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* 17. Please indicate your written and spoken proficiency with DARI/FARSI:

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* 18. Please indicate your written and spoken proficiency with PASHTO:

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* 19. Do you have malpractice insurance to cover your volunteer work?

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* 20. Additional comments/notes?