-: If you're looking to do immigration work now
I think one of the best things
that you can do to prepare yourself
is expose yourself to as many different languages
and cultures as you possibly can.
Because immigrants to the United States now
come from every place in the world
and interacting multiculturally is really a skill,
it's something that you learn how to do
and if you expose yourself to it sooner rather than later
you're gonna be a benefit to any organization or attorney
that you wanna work with.
I don't think you have to have studied immigration
in law school to do this work.
I would say, actually, the core components
and the core skills that you need
are gonna be writing, basic research
and attention to detail,
especially in the family based area
there's a lot of form and paperwork
that you're gonna be doing.
So if you went study everything in law school
and a few years out you wanna transition to immigration law
that's certainly an option for a lot of people.
I think the biggest challenge is gonna be
strategically positioning yourself,
in terms of, how do you get somebody
to hire you to do that work?
Well, you wanna build a relationship with them,
show through your actions your interest in that field.
We are looking for people with a full package.
You need to have the social skills
to interact with clients with compassion.
You also need to have the legal reasoning skills,
you need to be able to breakdown in clear and simple English
what people's options are, what their problem is
if they don't understand that already,
and you need to be able to work quickly.
So, if you do a basic legal education
and you absorbed your legal writing, your legal research
and your legal analysis,
you're gonna be able to do that in a immigration context,
as long as you can talk to people.