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Immigrant Justice Corps is currently accepting applications for its Community Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
IJC’s 2026 Community Fellows will be inaugural three-year placements awarded to recent college graduates with the linguistic skills, passion, and cultural competency to work with diverse immigrant communities. IJC seeks to foster advocates who seek to achieve full accreditation from the Department of Justice’s Recognition & Accreditation Program by the end of the fellowship.
The IJC Community Fellowship offers comprehensive benefits package, making it one of the most competitive programs in the field:
Applicants may be enrolled in an undergraduate degree, as long as they graduate by the Spring of the Fellowship start year. For example, if you graduate in Spring 2026 you will be eligible to apply to the Class of 2026.
Applicants may have graduated from college no more than two years prior to the start of the Fellowship (no earlier than Spring 2024).
All Fellows must be eligible for work authorization in the U.S. for the full three years of the Fellowship placement. Applicants with DACA or TPS are welcome to apply.
All Community Fellows must be proficient in a second language in addition to English, with Spanish (including indigenous dialects) preferred for the Class of 2026.
Community Fellowship Application Form
Resume/C.V. (no more than two pages)
PDF of your unofficial college transcript(s)
Statement of Interest (500 words or less)
Please provide a statement of interest, no longer than 500 words, describing why you would like to be a Community Fellow. Questions to consider in drafting your Statement of Interest include:
Why are you interested in immigration advocacy?
How might an IJC Fellowship prepare you for the career you want to have in the future?
Why, specifically, are you interested in participating in a fellowship program?
What area(s) of immigration practice (i.e. asylum, humanitarian, family-based, detention) are you seeking to gain experience in through the fellowship and why
What skills and experiences do you bring to working with immigrant communities?
Essay Question (500 words of less)
One Letter of Recommendation (Two valued)
Only one letter of recommendation is required to apply for the fellowship. A second letter of recommendation is optional, though highly valued.
