2025 Fall Legal Internship
Immigration Equality seeks highly motivated law school students or new law school graduates based in the United States or Canada for full-time remote fall 2025 legal internships or externships. Immigration Equality is a U.S.-based organization fighting for equal immigration rights for LGBTQ and HIV+ communities. We provide legal services to LGBTQ/HIV+ immigrants and refugees both domestically and internationally, and fight for administrative and legislative changes in U.S. immigration law.
Legal Interns work closely with our legal team to provide legal services to LGBTQ/HIV+ immigrants and refugees. Among other tasks, legal interns may assist members of the legal team in direct representation, participate in intake interviews, draft forms and other documents for administrative proceedings, and research issues about international refugee law and/or U.S. immigration law and policy. This fall, the interns will be working closely with our refugee team and have a large focus on international work with LGBTQ refugees. Many of the clients we are working with live in West Asia or in Africa.
Immigration Equality is an affirmative action employer: immigrants, people of color, and transgender individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. Arabic, Dari, Pashto, French, Farsi, or Spanish-language fluency is highly desirable, but not required. Immigration Equality fosters a progressive and professional LGBTQ-friendly work space. Although a start date is negotiable, ideally interns should be willing to work for at least 10 weeks. Preference will be given to candidates who can commit to a full-time schedule. The internship is unpaid, and we can only accept candidates who have external funding or who will do the internship or externship for school credit. We are happy to assist with any paperwork needed for your external funding or school credit.
Immigration Equality has a fully remote workforce. Work will be remote and you will need to have access to your own computer and telephone. Interns may be based in any location within the United States or Canada.
Immigration Equality is accepting applications now and will make decisions on a rolling basis. To apply for an internship or externship, please send a chronological resume and a compelling cover letter with “2025 Fall Law Student Internship” in the subject line to awhitfield@immigrationequality.org.