Dear Friend of PAIR,

As 2024 comes to a close, we are all grateful for your ongoing collaboration and support as we look to the new year. This edition of our newsletter details a number of cases in need of pro bono placement, including both non-detained and detained asylum cases as well as a mandamus case. Our detention team is also currently in need of a volunteer French interpreter. You can learn more by scrolling below.

As always, every pro bono attorney/team is placed with a PAIR mentor so you have step-by-step guidance—inclusive of overall legal strategy to support editing documents.

I hope you each are able to find some rest and decompression where it can be found over these upcoming weeks, and we all look forward to continuing to connect and work together in the new year.

Warmly,

Melanie

PAIR Pro Bono Involvement Coordinator

Available Asylum Pro Bono Cases

To read the longer case abstract for each the cases below, please click here.

If you are an attorney and are interested in taking on one of the below non-detained asylum cases, please email me at mgleason@pairproject.org.

Asylum (Immigration Court): AMM (Cameroon) is a 33-year-old man who has survived extensive torture and physical abuse due to his sexual orientation and misconceived role in the ongoing Anglophone War.

Asylum (Immigration Court): CMG (Ecuador) is a 27-year-old woman who fled to the U.S. due to enduring long-term physical, psychological, and verbal abuse by her ex-partner.

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If you are an attorney and are interested in taking on one of the below detained asylum/withholding of removal/Convention against Torture cases, please email me at mgleason@pairproject.org.

Asylum (Immigration Court): RA (Morocco) is a 24-year-old man who was forced to leave his home country by his parents when they discovered him with a male partner at a younger age; same sex relationships are illegal in Morocco. RA is currently detained at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility.

Withholding of Removal & CAT (Immigration Court): MM (Democratic Republic of Congo) is seeking Withholding of Removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). MM suffered tortured in the DRC as a government opponent, and the police killed his father, brother, and sister. MM is currently detained at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility.

Pro Bono Needed for Mandamus Case

One of PAIR's attorneys is looking for pro bono support to file a mandamus action for two marriage-based I-730s. The I-730 is a visa petition filed by someone who has asylum status on behalf of their spouse and/or unmarried children. There has been an unreasonable delay in the processing of the aforementioned two I-730s, and we are looking for a pro bono who is interested in federal court work to support.

If you may like to take this on, please email me at mgleason@pairproject.org.

French Volunteer Interpreter Needed!



PAIR is in need of a French volunteer interpreter to assist our team with detention intakes.

If you are interested and available, please email Detention Program Manager, Irene Freidel, ifreidel@pairproject.org.

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