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DOJ Recognition and Accreditation Toolkit
- Does your nonprofit agency want to develop a legal immigration program, but lack attorneys on staff or the money to hire them?
- Does your nonprofit agency want to continue providing legal immigration services, but avoid engaging in the unauthorized practice of law?
- Does your nonprofit agency have immigration attorneys on staff, but want to expand its capacity by getting authorization for non-attorney staff to practice immigration law?
In these situations, your agency needs to seek recognition for itself and accreditation for its non-attorney staff. Recognition and accreditation is the Department of Justice’s certification of charitable immigration agencies and staff, and allows non-attorney staff to practice immigration law before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the immigration courts. The rules governing recognition and accreditation can be found at 8 CFR Section 1292.
This toolkit is designed to educate agencies on the need for DOJ recognition and accreditation and to assist them in the application process.
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