Applications for enrollment in the Immigration Clinic for the 2016-2017 year will be taken early next month. An informational meeting about the Immigration Clinic will be held over the noon hour on January 21, 2016 in the Judge’s Chambers. All students who are interested in applying to be in the Immigration Clinic for the upcoming year are welcome to attend.
Professor Ruser and the students currently enrolled in Immigration Clinic, Roxana Cortes and Kendra Haack, will present information on the Immigration Clinic and will be available to answer any questions.
If you are interested in applying for the Immigration Clinic for the upcoming year but will not be able to attend the informational meeting on the 21st, please feel free to contact Professor Ruser with any questions you have at kruser1@unl.edu or stop into the Civil Clinic offices, Room 172 in the Welpton Courtroom building.
The course description of the Immigration Clinic follows:
The Immigration Clinic is a course in which two students per year are permitted to
enroll by faculty invitation only. Students enrolling in the Immigration Clinic represent low-income clients with immigration problems under close faculty supervision. Most of the work is in the areas of deportation defense, family-based immigrant visas, and asylum applications, although other types of immigration cases are also assigned to students from time to time at the discretion of the supervising faculty member and in consultation with the students. Students taking Immigration Clinic may not take another Clinic. Students in Immigration Clinic can expect to engage in the following types of activities: factual development and analysis, frequent client interviewing and counseling, preparation of immigration applications and supporting documentation, attendance with clients at immigration interviews, appearing in Immigration Court on behalf of clients, state and federal court appearances (as dictated by clients’ legal needs), legal analysis and planning, frequent creation of written work product (including but not limited to legal memoranda, briefs, letters, and so forth), analysis and resolution of professional ethics issues, and other skills necessary to function effectively as lead counsel on a variety of immigration cases.