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CRLAF’s Immigration Project provides select pro bono representation for immigrants appearing before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and in federal court; technical assistance and training to IOLTA direct service providers; and community education and training on select immigration law topics. Since the Project’s inception, CRLAF staff and volunteer attorneys and law students have assisted thousands of individuals in applying for naturalization throughout California’s Central Valley. In the last few years, the Immigration Project has provided pro bono representation to immigrant victims of crime residing throughout the Sacramento Valley in seeking to legalize immigration status and be reunited with family members. Additionally, the Immigration Project maintains a hotline for individuals facing imminent removal as a result of a raid. Erin L. Hernández, Immigration Project. Erin is CRLAF’s Immigration Project Director and a staff attorney for CRLAF’s Litigation Unit, has been with CRLAF since 2008. She is admitted to practice law in California and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Erin provides technical assistance and training to immigration legal service providers throughout the Sacramento Valley. She provides select legal representation before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and in federal court. Erin speaks Spanish. |