HybridIn-person preferred; hybrid or remote considered. Travel required for in-person hearings and interviews.
LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support
About the job
Requirements
Hold an active bar license in a U.S. state and be in good standing.
Have Turkish proficiency at native level and English proficiency at professional level.
Be able and willing to travel for in-person hearings and interviews.
Be able to manage a full docket while maintaining attention to detail.
Immigration experience is preferred but not required; newly admitted attorneys interested in building this practice are welcome to apply.
Responsibilities
Manage an individual docket of affirmative and defensive protection cases from consultation through decision.
Screen clients for humanitarian relief, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT).
Prepare I-589 filings, declarations, exhibit indexes, and country-conditions materials.
Handle Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) matters, including predicate-order hearings in state court and subsequent I-360 and I-485 filings.
Prepare adjustment-of-status, removal-of-conditions, and naturalization filings, and appear with clients at related interviews.
Draft briefs, pre-hearing statements, and motions, and prepare responses to Requests for Evidence (RFEs) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOIDs).
Attend master calendar and individual hearings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and handle appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
Prepare clients and witnesses, including for cross-examination.
Direct paralegals on case preparation.
Monitor filing and case deadlines, including the one-year filing bar, call-ups, biometrics, and the EOIR clock.
Desired Qualifications
Immigration experience.
Immigration Attorney
We carry a heavy humanitarian and removal defense docket, alongside family-based and adjustment work, and need another attorney to take cases from start to finish.
The work
Your own docket of affirmative and defensive protection cases, consultation through decision
Screening for humanitarian relief, withholding of removal, and CAT
I-589 filings, declarations, exhibit indexes, country conditions
SIJS matters, including predicate order hearings in state court and the I-360 and I-485 filings that follow
Adjustment, removal of conditions, and naturalization filings, and appearing with clients at those interviews
Briefs, pre-hearing statements, motions, RFE and NOID responses
Master calendar and individual hearings at EOIR, appeals to the BIA
Prepping clients and witnesses, including for cross
Directing paralegals on case builds
Watching the dates: the one-year filing bar, call-ups, biometrics, the EOIR clock
You need
Active bar license in a U.S. state, in good standing
Turkish at native level, English at professional level
In person preferred, hybrid or remote considered
Willingness and ability to travel for in-person hearings and interviews
The ability to run a full docket without dropping details
Immigration experience preferred, not required. Newly admitted attorneys who want to build this practice are welcome to apply.