St. Thomas Law’s Immigration Clinic Hosts Citizenship Drive

St. Thomas Law’s Immigration Clinic hosted a Citizenship Drive and Workshop on Saturday, April 25, 2015. The clinic was conducted by students from St. Thomas Law’s Immigration Clinic,  as well as a coalition of legal service providers and volunteers from The New Americans Project and the Catholic Legal Services-Archdiocese of Miami, Inc. The drive was organized to aid eligible permanent residents become U.S. citizens by providing assistance in the completion of their naturalization applications.  Over 200 persons attended the clinic and more than 110 applications were completed. The legal services were provided at no cost.

Information was also provided about (DACA) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the suspension of deportations for those eligible under President Obama’s Executive Order that allows certain undocumented persons – including those who have children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents – to have the opportunity to receive work documents.

Hard at work:  St. Thomas Law’s Monique Wilson (3L) and Mercy Londono (3L) at Saturday’s immigration drive

The citizenship drive is a part of the St. Thomas Law School Immigration Clinic’s continuing mission to inspire in law students a life-long commitment to serve uprooted persons at the margins of society, and to give students the legal, ethical, and moral tools they need to provide high quality immigration legal services to families and individuals in need so that they may participate fully in society.