Information for Students
The best thing about working for the Refugee and Immigrant Advocacy
Clinic is that your hard work can give someone a new opportunity in life. The Clinic has taught me that language and culture don’t have to be barriers, as long as people are working toward justice.
-Chris Kang, 3L, Refugee and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic
What’s Unique about Refugee and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic?
The Refugee and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic combines individual representation and projects that address systemic issues of poverty and access to justice. This Clinic gives students a sense of the depth and breadth of work in Washington’s public interest community.
Substantive Practice Area:
- Public benefits
- Adjusting immigration status to ensure eligibility for benefits
Where We Practice:
- Department of Social and Health Services
- Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services
Typical cases:
Skills Focus:
- Interviewing
- Fact investigation
- Developing a case theory/case plan
- Negotiating