Immigration Staff Attorney

Overview

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

World Relief Baltimore seeks an immigration attorney who will provide direct representation to clients of the Immigration Legal Services program who have viable affirmative immigration relief. The immigration staff attorney will offer immigration legal advice and education to immigrant community members. This position will represent clients before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (Department of Homeland Security) and in limited scope representation before EOIR (Immigration Court).

This is a limited-term position funded through a grant agreement for one year from hire date.

• Provide substantive legal screening to determine clients’ immigration benefit or relief eligibility.
• Explain immigration relief and/or benefits and advise clients on best actions to take for their specific case.
• Prepare benefit applications and represent clients at USCIS interviews; including filing applications, advocating for clients, and corresponding with USCIS, as well as Requests for Evidence/Notices of Intent to Deny/Terminate, and appeals in limited circumstances.
• Perform factual and legal research for client services and regularly monitor developments in immigration law and procedure.
• Engage in immigration legal trainings, case review meetings, and conferences.
• Provide information and referrals to library patrons at the Lawyer in the Library:
  Immigration Information program at Enoch Pratt Free Library.

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Association of Evangelicals  For the Health of The Nation document
• Licensed attorney in a jurisdiction in the United States, and in good standing in all jurisdictions where admitted.
• 1+ years of recent experience in family-based and humanitarian-based immigration law.
• Knowledge of the Immigration and Nationality Act, including experience in humanitarian immigration relief (asylum, U Visas, and VAWA), and family-based immigration processes, Naturalization, TPS, DACA, and humanitarian parole

• Strong commitment to legal ethics and ability to keep information confidential.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Self-motivated, ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team-based environment.

• Ability to speak Spanish or other languages.
• Experience in removal defense, crimmigration (analysis of criminal history), consular processing, SIJS, or T Visas.
• Familiarity with Equifax (aka Law Logix)…