Our Impact
Founded in 2014, IJC has grown to a national footprint and championed a new model for serving immigrant families.
America’s immigration laws are extraordinarily complex, making the price of admission high, unjust, and inhumane.
Unlike criminal and family court proceedings, immigrants facing deportation in immigration court do not have a right to counsel if they cannot afford one. Those with representation are six times more likely to see a successful outcome.
Immigrant Justice Corps works to both empower new lawyers and advocates to join the immigration field and address the urgent need for direct legal services. IJC Fellows represent immigrants free of charge, delivering a 93% success rate in completed cases.
Increasing access to legal counsel.
Permanently expanding the pool of immigration legal talent.
Recruiting & Training
Building the next generation of immigration lawyers and advocates.
There are more talented, committed new attorneys and advocates that want to pursue immigration law than there are entry points to our field.
IJC recruits among the most promising law students and young advocates around the country, mobilizes them to host organizations where they can directly meet the need for services, and trains them to become experts in immigration law.
IJC’s in-depth Fellow trainings and support include an annual three-week intensive with the nation’s leading immigration law experts and an annual two-day Fellow convening for Fellows to share experiences and best practices.
Since inception, IJC has mobilized over 500 Fellows to host organizations throughout the US. including speakers of more than 20 languages, including Spanish Arabic, Mandarin, French, Haitian Creole, Kiswahili, Hindi and Wolof.
Our alumni network is widely seen as a go-to resource of legal knowledge, expertise and mentorship.
Serving Our Clients.
Providing high-quality legal services for low-income immigrants.
Since its inception, Immigrant Justice Corps has defended immigrants in desperate need of a lawyer, often on a crisis basis. When our government has moved to inhumanely deter immigration through large-scale breaches of due process, we have supported groundswell legal responses to bring justice to harmful policies.
Since 2015, our rapid response trips have taken Fellows to detention centers in Texas and to border-rights work in Tijuana, Mexico.
Our Justice Fellows have opened more than 10,000 complex cases and nearly 90% of cases completed have had successful outcomes, avoiding deportation and separation of families.
