Pledging initiative – Submission form: Submission #2300
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Submission Number: 2300
Submission ID: 8046
Submission UUID: e207987f-9fa4-4286-880e-fd3b0d932d96
Submission URI: /es/submit-pledges
Created: Sun, 07/31/2022 - 23:03
Completed: Sun, 07/31/2022 - 23:03
Changed: Fri, 05/05/2023 - 18:04
Remote IP address: 2.22.245.54
Submitted by: Pablo Sebastian Mariani
Language: English
Is draft: No
Submitted to: Pledging initiative – Submission form
Flagged: Yes
| Nombre del Estado o agente que presenta el compromiso (sírvase indicar el sitio web, si lo hay) | The Mayors Mechanism submitting in the name of the City of Boston |
|---|---|
| Pledging entity | Cities, Municipalities, and Local Authority |
| Is the country of the pledging entity a GCM Champion country? | |
| Nombres y apellidos | Pablo Mariani |
| Puesto que ocupa | KMO |
| País | Brasil |
| Other country of implementation | Global |
| Region of implementation | |
| Dirección de correo electrónico | pmariani@mayorsmechanism.org |
| Secondary contact person | |
| Secondary email | |
| Título del compromiso | Increasing immigration legal access through immigrant-serving community based organizations |
| Tipo de compromiso (sírvase seleccionar) | Individual (un solo Estado Miembro/ una sola parte interesada) |
| Is this a mirror pledge (pledge is also relevant to the Global Compact on Refugees) ? | |
| Estados y actores participantes | |
| Título del compromiso mancomunado | |
| Código de identificación del compromiso mancomunado | |
| Naturaleza del compromiso (sírvase seleccionar) | Participación en los procesos (p. ej., organización de procesos plenamente consultivos para elaboración de informes nacionales para el Foro de Examen de la Migración Internacional); Estructurado, enmarcado en uno o más de los 10 principios rectores enunciados en el Pacto Mundial para la Migración; structured |
| Sírvase indicar el (los) objetivo(s) del Pacto Mundial para la Migración que este compromiso pretende promover | 7. Abordar y reducir las vulnerabilidades en la migración; 15. Proporcionar a los migrantes acceso a servicios básicos; 16. Empoderar a los migrantes y las sociedades para lograr la plena inclusión y la cohesión social |
| Sírvase indicar qué principio(s) rector(es)1 es (son) particularmente pertinente(s) para este compromiso | Centrada en las personas; Cooperación internacional; Soberanía nacional; Estado de derecho y garantías procesales; Desarrollo sostenible; Derechos humanos; Perspectiva de género; Perspectiva infantil; Enfoque pangubernamental; Enfoque pansocial |
| Sírvase describir el compromiso | Many individuals applying for immigration benefits seek legal assistance to navigate the arcane and confusing US legal system. However, the demand for accessible, affordable, and competent immigration legal assistance vastly outweighs supply. Legal aid organizations (LAOs) that help immigrants seek needed relief are vastly over capacity. The Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement has committed to funding community-based organizations (CBOs) to respond to this lack of capacity. Our strategy provides grant funding to immigrant-led and immigrant-serving organizations to hire culturally competent attorneys, hire paralegals/case coordinators, and pay for the Department of Justice (DOJ) accreditation training process for the paralegals/case coordinators and other staff members. This approach allows immigrants to utilize the services of known and trusted CBOs that provide culturally competent and language-accessible immigration legal services. Moreover, the DOJ accreditation allows these organizations to provide immigration legal services in-house, therefore relieving some pressure from the LAOs. To date, funding under the pilot phase has provided support to three CBOs to provide services to their own community based on linguistic needs predominant in the City of Boston - one Haitian Creole-serving, one Brazilian Portuguese-serving, and one Spanish-serving. The City of Boston gave multiple grants in 2021 to CBOs and continues to evaluate the results. To date, the first organization to receive a grant, Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI), helped over 1,500 Haitians apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in four months. The majority of staff at IFSI are Haitian or Haitian American, and provide culturally and linguistically responsive services to the immigrants they serve. We expect this action to directly result in an increase of the number of staff at CBOs and to further support the hiring of community members that can provide immigration legal services. The Department of Justice accreditation process also allows a accredited staff at recognized nonprofit organizations to provide immigration legal services, which is a benefit of this funding that will go beyond the grant period, as the organization’s staff members can maintain the accreditation indefinitely through continuing education and reapplication. As one example, the grant to IFSI led to the hiring of an in-house Haitian American immigration lawyer and supported the process of applying for DOJ accreditation for an additional staff member. To evaluate the efficacy of this action, we request reports of the staff members that the funding was used to hire. Additionally, we request a report at the end of the grant period, including a brief narrative of how the funds were used, overall impact, and the total number of both individuals served under this grant, including the number of clients served who received favorable results on their immigration applications. |
| Sírvase señalar un plazo indicativo para el cumplimiento del compromiso | 31 Oct 2022 |
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*Todas las referencias a Kosovo deben entenderse en el contexto de la Resolución 1244 [1999] del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas.
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