2025 Public Interest Fellowship

Immigration Equality seeks highly motivated law students or recent law school graduates based in the United States or Canada who are seeking a fellowship host for a postgraduate public interest fellowship. The position is open for applications on a rolling basis year-round. Candidates must secure outside funding from a law school, foundation, law firm, or other funding opportunity to support the postgraduate public interest fellowship. 

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 fellows work closely with our legal team to provide legal services to LGBTQ/HIV+ immigrants and refugees. Among other tasks, legal fellows 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. We would prefer fellowship proposals to work with our refugee team, and fellows will 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. Start date and end dates are negotiable. Prospective fellows must have outside funding to support the fellowship. 

Immigration Equality has a fully remote workforce. Work will be remote. Fellows will be provided with a laptop for Immigration Equality Work. Fellows 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 to work with us as a fellow, please send a chronological resume and a compelling cover letter with “Legal Fellowship Application” in the subject line to awhitfield@immigrationequality.org.