U.S. Immigration Paralegal

• Review large volumes of legal, personal, medical, financial, immigration, police, court, educational, employment, and other documentary evidence.
• Read records closely and identify significant dates and events, inconsistencies or contradictions, missing information, evidentiary gaps, and facts requiring clarification. corroborating evidence; adverse facts that must be addressed; relationships among people, events, and documents; and information relevant to the legal relief being pursued.
• Prepare accurate case chronologies, document summaries, evidence tables, issue lists, and factual memoranda.
• Compare information across applications, declarations, interview notes, government records, prior filings, and supporting documents to ensure consistency.
• Distinguish clearly between facts stated by the client, facts supported by documents, information supplied by third parties, assumptions or inferences, and matters requiring attorney review.
• Promptly bring inconsistencies, material omissions, credibility concerns, or potentially harmful information to the attention of the supervising attorney.

• Conduct detailed, structured interviews of clients and witnesses under the direction of a supervising attorney.
• Ask appropriate follow-up questions to obtain complete information concerning personal and family history; immigration history; relationships and marriages; abuse, threats, persecution, or other traumatic events; medical or psychological consequences; criminal or law-enforcement encounters; financial circumstances; hardship to qualifying relatives; prior applications or statements; and other facts relevant to the client's immigration matter.
• Conduct interviews with patience, sensitivity, professionalism, and respect, particularly where clients have experienced domestic violence, persecution, sexual violence, detention, family separation, or other trauma.
• Create accurate, organised, and sufficiently detailed interview notes.
• Avoid leading clients, supplying facts, exaggerating events, or encouraging a client or witness to make a statement that is not true.
• Identify matters requiring additional documentation, corroboration, investigation, or attorney guidance.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries with clients and witnesses at all times.

• Draft detailed first-person client declarations, affidavits, and witness statements based on interviews and documentary evidence.
• Ensure that every declaration accurately reflects the declarant's own facts and experience; follows a clear and logical chronology; contains relevant details; addresses inconsistencies or evidentiary concerns where appropriate; is written in clear and natural language; preserves the client's individual voice; avoids unsupported conclusions, exaggeration, or embellishment; and is suitable for attorney review and revision.
• Prepare supplemental declarations where new facts, evidence, or government concerns must be addressed.
• Revise drafts promptly and carefully in response to attorney feedback.
• Confirm material factual assertions against source documents wherever possible.
• Never invent, assume, add, or alter facts merely to make a declaration appear more persuasive.

• VAWA self-petitions and related applications, including Forms I-360, I-485, I-765, supporting declarations; good-faith marriage evidence; shared-residence evidence; abuse evidence; and good-moral-character documentation.
• Affirmative and defensive asylum applications, including Form I-589, personal declarations, witness statements, country-conditions evidence, corroborating records, and supporting exhibits.
• Waiver applications, including Forms I-601 and I-601A, hardship declarations; qualifying-relative evidence; medical and psychological records; financial evidence, family evidence, and other supporting documentation.
• Family-based petitions and adjustment applications, including Forms I-130 and I-485 and related supporting evidence.
• Applications for employment authorisation and other ancillary immigration benefits.
• Responses to Requests for Evidence, Notices of Intent to Deny, Notices of Intent to Revoke, and other government notices.
• Motions, briefs, exhibit packets, filing indexes, document lists, and case-preparation materials for matters before USCIS, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and other appropriate tribunals.
• Any other immigration matter assigned by the principal attorney, associate attorney, supervisory paralegal, or other designated supervisor.
• The paralegal must not independently determine legal eligibility, select legal strategy, make legal representations, or submit a filing without attorney review and approval.

• Prepare individualised document-request lists and evidence checklists.
• Communicate with clients to obtain missing documents and information.
• Review documents received from clients for completeness, relevance, legibility, and consistency.
• Organise evidence using the firm's required naming, indexing, pagination, and filing conventions.
• Prepare exhibit lists, document indexes, filing checklists, and electronic case folders.
• Maintain complete and accurate case notes in the firm's case-management system.
• Ensure that all material communications, documents, and developments are uploaded or recorded in the appropriate client file.
• Monitor outstanding evidence requests and follow up with clients in a professional and timely manner.

• Promptly identify, record, and monitor all deadlines arising from attorney instructions, government notices, court orders, filing schedules, client commitments, and internal work plans.
• Maintain assigned tasks and deadlines in the Firm's approved case-management and calendaring systems.
• Provide timely reminders and status updates to supervising attorneys and relevant team members.
• Immediately escalate any deadline that may be at risk because of missing evidence, delayed client responses, workload, technology problems, uncertainty, or any other reason.
• Never assume that another person is monitoring a deadline assigned to the Paralegal.
• Seek clarification immediately where a deadline, filing method, time zone, assignment, or expected deliverable is unclear.
• Meet internal deadlines established by the supervising attorney, even where the government filing deadline is later.
• Communicate anticipated delays before the deadline and provide a proposed corrective plan
• Repeated failure to identify, calendar, communicate, escalate, or meet deadlines may be treated as a serious performance issue.

• Communicate with clients professionally, respectfully, and compassionately.
• Provide authorized administrative and case-status updates.
• Return or acknowledge client communications within the Firm's required response period.
• Avoid making promises concerning outcomes, processing times, approvals, court decisions, or legal strategy.
• Refer requests for legal advice or legal judgment to the supervising attorney.
• Document material client communications in the case-management system.
• Treat every client with dignity, including clients who are distressed, unfamiliar with legal processes, or experiencing language, cultural, financial, or personal difficulties.

• Proofread all work carefully before submission.
• Verify names, dates, addresses, identification numbers, immigration history, and other material facts.
• Ensure that forms, declarations, exhibits, and supporting records are internally consistent.
• Use the Firm's templates, formatting standards, checklists, and naming conventions.
• Submit work that is organized, complete, and ready for meaningful attorney review.
• Correct errors promptly and incorporate feedback into future work.
• Maintain a personal quality-control process appropriate to the assigned task.

• Provide independent legal advice or legal opinions;
• Determine the legal strategy for a matter.
• Promise or guarantee a result.
• Quote, negotiate, or modify legal fees.
• Sign pleadings, legal opinions, or attorney correspondence as an attorney
• Represent that the Paralegal is licensed to practise law in Texas or any other United States jurisdiction.
• Communicate a settlement, waiver, concession, admission, or legal position on behalf of the Firm.
• File or submit any application, pleading, or legal document without required attorney approval.
• Create an independent professional or personal relationship with a client outside the scope of assigned work.
• Accept money, gifts, favors, loans, commissions, or anything of value from a client without prior written disclosure and approval
• Use client information for any personal, professional, financial, or other unauthorised purpose.
• Possession of a Nigerian law degree or Nigerian legal-practitioner status does not expand the employee's authority in relation to United States legal matters.

• Maintain strict confidentiality concerning all client, witness, firm, personnel, financial, and case information.
• Access information only where required for assigned work.
• Use only Firm-approved devices, systems, accounts, and communication channels.
• Never save, transfer, photograph, print, forward, upload, or copy client or firm information to a personal device, personal email account, personal cloud-storage service, removable storage device, messaging application, or paper file without express authorisation.
• Never disclose client information to family members, friends, colleagues without authorisation, prospective employers, or any other third party.
• Protect passwords, login credentials, and access codes.
• Immediately report any suspected data loss, unauthorized access, accidental disclosure, compromised account, or security incident
• Return or permanently delete firm information as directed upon request, reassignment, suspension, or termination.
• Any unauthorised use, disclosure, retention, or transfer of client or firm information may constitute serious misconduct.

• Applicants may possess a bachelor's degree, Higher National Diploma, or other relevant education
• Professional experience in any field, particularly relevant backgrounds, may include: law or legal studies; English, communication, or journalism; psychology or social work; political science or international relations; sociology; investigation or compliance; claims handling; case management; research; human resources; customer service; or another document-intensive or interview-based profession.
• A legal qualification may be advantageous, but it will not substitute for strong writing, analytical, interviewing, and organisational ability.
• Exceptional written and spoken English.
• Strong reading comprehension and the ability to understand lengthy, complex, and sometimes inconsistent records.
• The ability to organise facts chronologically and identify material issues.
• Strong interviewing and active-listening skills.
• The ability to draft clear, detailed, coherent, and factually accurate narratives.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Sound judgement, maturity, discretion, and integrity.
• Strong organisational and deadline-management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PDF documents, email, cloud-based systems, and video conferencing tools.
• The ability to receive detailed corrections and revise work without defensiveness.
• The ability to manage multiple assignments and competing deadlines.
• The emotional maturity to work with clients who have experienced abuse, persecution, trauma, detention, or family separation.
• Reliable attendance, punctuality, and responsiveness.
• The ability to work both independently and collaboratively under supervision.

• Immigration, litigation, legal support, investigation, compliance, claims, social service, or case management experience.
• Experience interviewing clients, witnesses, complainants, patients, claimants, or vulnerable individuals.
• Experience drafting witness statements, reports, narratives, affidavits, investigation summaries, or other fact-intensive documents.
• Familiarity with U.S. immigration forms or processes.
• Experience reviewing medical records, police reports, court documents, financial records, correspondence, or government files.
• Experience working in a professional environment with strict confidentiality and deadline requirements.

• Analytical and intellectually curious.
• Compassionate but objective.
• Patient and attentive.
• Highly organised.
• Dependable and deadline-conscious.
• Honest and discreet.
• Receptive to supervision and correction.
• Calm under pressure.
• Willing to ask questions rather than make unsupported assumptions.
• Committed to continuous learning.
• Capable of handling sensitive information without gossip or improper disclosure.
• Committed to producing accurate work rather than merely completing tasks quickly.

• The position is primarily onsite at the Nigeria Support Office in Ibadan.
• Standard working hours are generally 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, subject to the terms of the employment agreement and applicable firm policies.
• Because the role supports a US law firm, employees may occasionally be required to participate in meetings, interviews, training, or urgent casework outside ordinary Nigerian business hours.
• The position involves prolonged reading, writing, document review, computer use, and client interviews.
• The employee may encounter descriptions or evidence of domestic violence, sexual violence, persecution, torture, detention, child abuse, medical trauma, death, or other distressing events.
• Remote work is not an automatic entitlement and may be permitted only in accordance with the firm's policies and management approval.

• Accuracy and completeness of work.
• Quality of written declarations, summaries, and case materials.
• Ability to identify inconsistencies and evidentiary gaps.
• Quality and completeness of client interviews.
• Compliance with deadlines.
• Responsiveness to clients, attorneys, and supervisors.
• Organization and maintenance of case files
• Confidentiality and information-security compliance.
• Ability to follow instructions and incorporate feedback.
• Professional judgement and integrity.
• Teamwork and communication. 
• Consistency with the firm's values and standards.

• A current curriculum vitae
• A short cover letter explaining their suitability for the position.
• One or two writing samples, where available.
• Details of relevant interviewing, case-management, legal-support, investigation, or document-review experience.
• At least two professional references.

• The firm is seeking individuals who can think, investigate, interview, write, organise, and exercise sound judgement.
• The preferred candidate is not necessarily the person with the most legal qualifications.
• The preferred candidate is the person who can transform large volumes of information into accurate, coherent, well-supported, and attorney-ready case materials while treating clients with dignity and meeting every assigned deadline.

Location: Ibadan

Remuneration: NGN 223,000 Monthly Net