KGACLC Immigration Interviewing and Advising
Certificate(s): Public Interest and Social Justice Law (List A)
Course Description:
Students counsel clients in the general advice immigration clinic on all aspects of immigration law including political asylum, T-visas, U-visas, family petitions, VAWA, and deportation. In the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) advice clinics, students advise immigrant victims of domestic violence. Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class without the prior approval of the instructor. Graded Credit/No Credit.
Class Notes:
Experiential Course
Credit/No Credit. All classroom sessions will be offered remotely. Students may have the option of performing some (but not all) of clinical work on site, conditions permitting. Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class in the same semester.
Credit/No Credit. Students must attend a mandatory training class on Saturday, August 22nd from 8:30 to 5:00 p.m. Thereafter, students must spend 25 hours advising at the Immigration Clinic, which meets between 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the following Wednesday dates: Aug. 26; Sept 9, 23; Oct. 7, 21; Nov 4, 18. Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class in the same semester.