Legal Undergraduate Internship - Immigration Team (MD/VA)
Location: Silver Spring, MD or Fairfax, VA
Salary: $150 - $300 stipend per month
Closing Date: August 8, 2025
The Legal – Immigration Team undergraduate intern will primarily have administrative duties, such as scanning, copying documents, shredding documents, mailing out documents, correspondence to clients, reminding clients of appointments and any other support needed for the team. The undergraduate internship will also include opportunities to work on legal projects, such as: substantiative research and writing, translating documents, and conducting outreach to the community.
The fall internship lasts 12 – 14 weeks from late August/early September up till early/mid-December. We have 2 interns spot available within our Legal Department – Immigration Team for our Fall 2025 cohort, 1 at our Silver Spring, MD office and 1 at our Fairfax, VA office.
Preference given to undergraduate interns with strong verbal and written communication skills and can join in person at our MD office as well as having English – Spanish bilingual abilities in a language spoken by the individuals we support.
Department/Individuals Assisting: Ayuda’s Legal Department – Immigration Team (MD)
Responsible to: Interns will be assigned to an Ayuda attorney who will serve as their primary supervisor over the course of their internship.
Responsibilities:
- Drafting correspondence
- Conducting relevant legal and background research
- Translating of legal and background documents
- Fact-checking. proofreading and citation formatting
- Scheduling internal and external team meetings
- Identifying and communicating with area practitioners to review the manual, and coordinating deadlines for review
- Interns participate in internal meetings and are responsible for mostly administrative duties. Interns may have the opportunity to attend client meetings and observe hearings and trials, but such is not guaranteed
