Immigration Legal Support Specialist Paralegal
Mountain State Justice
Morgantown, WV
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Working as an Intake Specialist for the immigration team and facilitating client interactions and document processing.
- Recording intake calls, documenting caller details (name, phone number, email), summarizing issue descriptions, and maintaining current call status for internal records and check-ins with the Immigration team.
- Opening of the matter by drafting USCIS FOIA forms, getting client details, and assisting with client and the Attorney meeting arrangements.
- Initiating cases adeptly as an in-house FBI fingerprint enthusiast, proficiently completing the FD 265 form, and preparing the form I-783.
- Ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements, prepared various immigration forms, including but not limited to Form I-485, I-589, I-765, I-812D, I-131, I-130A, I-914, N400, N-600, G-639, G-28, I-783, I-130, I-751, I-360, I-912, and I-864.
- Drafting initial cover letters for family-based immigration cases and humanitarian cases, including affirmative asylum, U visa, and T visa applications.
- Entering immigration case information into legal files software, ensuring comprehensive client records and facilitating conflict checks.
- Finalizing the packet of family-based immigration filings and humanitarian case filings to USCIS, asylum filings to USCIS, and some cases to the EOIR.
- Calendaring immigration related deadlines and reminders, including examples such as the expiration of green cards and employment authorization documents.
- Managing the immigration database on Docketwise software as the primary personnel, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for efficient case tracking and management within the immigration practice.
- Communicating with the clients to obtain necessary documents and information to complete their immigration applications.
- Creating and maintaining physical files records for the immigration team, ensuring systematic organization and easy accessibility.
- Managing daily incoming and outgoing mails for the immigration team, effectively organizing correspondence, and meticulously entering data into the immigration software Docketwise.