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The Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) is seeking a Contract Pro Bono Mentoring Attorney to lead our Afghan Asylum Project, mentoring pro bono attorneys in immigration cases. This position will be 100% remote from anywhere in the United States; however, the work on this project must take place during Eastern Time Zone working hours. This 1099 contract position will run up to one (1) year. Beginning in the fall of 2021, the Buffalo metropolitan region received over 600 evacuees from Afghanistan. Four area refugee resettlement agencies that make up the WNY Refugee & Asylee Consortium (WNYRAC) resettled these evacuees, almost all of whom were granted Humanitarian Parole status by the U.S. government. Now, all these evacuees need to be screened for immigration relief and placed with pro bono attorneys to represent them on their immigration matters before USCIS. We estimate that there are about 200 cases within the evacuee population; most of these clients...