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“The Immigration Clinic has given me the opportunity to put the skills I have obtained in law school to practice by helping clients who truly need an advocate because they do not understand the gravity of the legal situations they are in, and more importantly, what redress is available to them” -
Pictured above: Erin Stanley,2L, Immigration Clinic F '08 and SP '09
“Before I came to the clinic, my confidence towards legal work was not there. After my experience in the Immigration Clinic, I am confident enough that I know I can tackle anything.” – Anonymous, 3L, Immigration Clinic F’08
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Alumni Only Celebration & Networking Event
Remembering Professor Joseph A. Vail
Immigration Clinic
Clinical Associate Professor Geoffrey Hoffman and Clinical Assistant Professor Janet Beck and Susham Modi
THE IMMIGRATION CLINIC specializes in handling applications for asylum on behalf of victims of torture and persecution, in representing immigrants who have been the victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and crime, and children and those fleeing civil war, genocide or political repression. Students also give presentations to outside organizations that deal with Immigrant Issues and give individual assistance to immigrants held in immigration detention centers.
Clinic students are assigned a variety of immigration cases. Under close faculty supervision, they are responsible for handling the cases from the initial interview through the conclusion of the case, including trial, if needed.
The Immigration Practice Clinic has a classroom component that meets for two hours a week for 14 weeks over the course of the semester. The classroom component provides students with an understanding of the basics of asylum law, citizenship, removal defense, and laws protecting immigrant victims of human trafficking and family violence. The classroom component focuses on teaching advocacy skills and substantive immigration law to equip students to represent immigrants before the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (the immigration courts) and other federal agencies.
The Immigration Clinic is a 4 unit graded course. NO PREREQUISITES ARE REQUIRED. Good Academic Standing only.”
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- Fall 2011 Immigration Newsletter
- UH Immigration Clinic Wins Appeal for Couple from Mali (ASYLUM GRANTED)
- UHLC clinic wins parole for Iraqi refugee
- Precedential Decision in Matter of M-A-M- (BIA decision setting forth Mental Competency Standards)
- Practice Advisory
- Spring-Summer 2011 Newsletter.
- The Supreme Court’s decision in Carachuri (June 14, 2010)
- UH Law Immigration Clinic in the Houston Chronicle (June 17, 2010)
The Immigration Clinic also continues to develop and integrate with a legal service network, both in Texas and nationally, that provides our clients with greater expertise, our students with role models and career opportunities, and our faculty with the opportunity to develop and display increased expertise and prominence.
An example of this network is our partnership with the legal aid organization, TexasLawHelp, a project of the Texas Access to Justice Commission and the Texas Access to Justice Foundation.
Click on the following link to TEXAS LAW HELP: www.TexasLawHelp.org
