Job Responsibilities

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of IRC Silver Spring’s case acceptance policies, which include enrollment eligibility criteria across immigration legal services programs.
• Conduct preliminary screenings for walk-in clients seeking immigration legal services to determine potential program eligibility and triage scheduling or inclusion on a waitlist.
• Schedule appointments for immigration clients with legal assistants, legal representatives, and/or attorneys; follow up with clients through reminder text messages and/or phone calls.
• Maintain a detailed, accurate and comprehensive database of walk-in clients and returning clients, including basic biographic information, current contact information, and other data as needed.
• Answer phone calls, emails and text messages from clients and resolve common client concerns, such as regarding updated contact information, position on waitlists for services, or estimated USCIS case processing times; follow protocols to appropriately relay questions requiring legal analysis or more detailed case information to team members; and log all client communications in the case management software.
• Track inquiries for services, gathering data to inform program operations and services as identified by the [SUPERVISOR]. Data may include number of walk-in clients, referral sources, waitlist times, and requested services.
• Open and log all mail (USCIS/NVC correspondence) for immigration programs into the case management software.
• Create and maintain virtual and/or physical case files according to standardized model.
• Scan and upload clear and complete copies of case-related documents to Box; print and prepare clear and complete copies of materials to be submitted to USCIS as part of legal filings.
• In coordination with the [supervisor], conduct monthly administrative file review.
• Understand and strictly abide by rules of confidentiality and protocols regarding unauthorized practice of law.
• Other tasks and projects as assigned by the Immigration Program Manager.