Immigration Paralegal
MICHIGAN ADVOCACY PROGRAM
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Kalamazoo • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $45,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Assist attorneys with their cases
- Participate in office-wide projects and client services
- Handle some cases on their own as a DOJ-accredited representative
- Resubmit DOJ-accreditation applications if applicable
Requirements
- An associate’s degree or commensurate professional experience is required
- A bachelor’s degree is preferred
- High level of Spanish proficiency
- Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem‐solving skills
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
- Proficient with major software and web services including Word, Excel, G Suite
- Access to a reliable internet connection for remote work
- Experience related to immigration and poverty preferred
- Prior experience with immigration law preferred
- Relevant lived experience encouraged
Benefits
- life insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- health insurance
- vision insurance
- dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match after 6 months
- 3 weeks paid vacation the first year
- 15 paid holidays
- annual $1,500 payout if health benefits are not required
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
DOJ-accreditationimmigration law
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationanalyticalproblem-solvingdetail-orientedorganizational
Certifications
associate’s degreebachelor’s degree