Volunteering with Freedom for Immigrants

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Freedom for Immigrants!

If you would like additional information about our volunteer opportunities, please review the following document:

Descriptions of Volunteer Positions

Other Volunteer Opportunities

For those interested in translating and interpreting, we encourage you to sign up to volunteer with allied organizations Respond Crisis or Tarjimly
For attorneys, law students, paralegals, interpreters, translators, physicians, mental health professionals, and licensed clinical social workers, offer professional support to detained individuals through the Immigration Justice Campaign

Volunteer Application Form

Great that you are moving forward with the application process to be a volunteer with Freedom for Immigrants! Please complete this form with as much detail as possible, giving thoughtful and considered answers, so that we can learn more about you and make sure that the volunteering roles you have applied for will match your skills. If you have applied for a number of different roles, you may find that the "motivation" questions can be a bit repetitive. Feel free to copy and paste in the same information in these sections, but try to think about the differences between roles and consider how that affects your motivation to participate, adapting the text where relevant.

Once you submit the form, your information will be forwarded to the relevant teams. You should be contacted within two weeks to discuss next steps, we ask for your patience if it takes a little longer, sometimes we are processing a large number of applications and it can take a little longer.

Full Name

Phone Number

Country of Residence

City

State

Zip Codes

Preferred contact

Date of Birth

Gender / Gender Identity

Preferred Pronouns

What language(s) do you speak?

Have you ever worked or interned for a federal agency that handles immigration issues, such as ICE, USCIS, or the Department of Justice, a prison, jail, or juvenile hall?

How did you hear about this volunteer opportunity?

Please share any additional information (name of organization, etc.)

Please describe your experience or skills relevant to supporting people in immigration detention, prison, or other places of confinement or isolation

Would you like to be subscribed to IMM-Print, a publication by people affected by immigration detention?

Are you currently working with any immigrants' rights or other activist groups in your area?

If so, which ones?

Are you familiar with any detention centers in your area?

What programs do you want to volunteer for? (select all that apply)

Visiting, writing, supporting people in immigration detention

Answering Hotline Calls from people in immigration detention (for bilingual speakers, to join the volunteer waitlist)

What language(s) would you feel comfortable receiving and writing letters in?

Would you like to use FFI's PO Box as the return address for correspondence, or your own address?

Is there anything you'd like to tell us about yourself that would be relevant in matching you with a pen-pal, or do you have any preferences around who you would like to write to?

What's your address

Address 1

Address 2

City

State/Province

Zip/Postal Code

Country

What's your native language?

Please list all languages in which you can translate and your proficiency:

Do you have professional translation education or experience? *

Additional details (professional experience, education, certifications)

How much time can you commit to volunteering?

Why do you want to become a host?

What strategies do you have to manage stressful situations?

How do you put people at ease?

Are you looking to Sponsor, Host or both?

Are you willing to host Adults, Families, or both?

What gender are you able to host?

How many individuals can you host?

What is the longest you are willing to host?

Do you have any pets at home?

If Yes, what kind of pets do you have?

Do you have a spare room for people you are hosting?

Please describe any additional information that you would like us to take into consideration when matching you with a person in detention?

Please provide three references (with email addresses) who know you personally or professionally and can attest to your ability to host asylum seekers in your home. (By submitting this form you are agreeing to FFI contacting these references to complete background checks)

Why do you want to become a Community Accompaniment volunteer?

Do you have any previous experience, personal or professional, in community accompaniment or support work?

What strategies do you have to manage stressful situations?

How do you put people at ease?

How much time can you commit to volunteering?

Please provide three references (with email addresses) who know you personally or professionally and can attest to your ability to support asylum seekers and other immigrants. (By submitting this form you are agreeing to FFI contacting these references to complete background checks)

Why do you want to become a Vetting Volunteer?

Do you have any experience conducting phone interviews?

If yes, Please describe

What other experience do you have that is relevant to this position?

Do you have basic computing skills that will enable you to do data entry into our database?

How much time can you commit to volunteering?

Please provide three references (with email addresses) who know you personally or professionally and can attest to your ability to support asylum seekers and other immigrants.

Why do you want to volunteer? What motivated you to get involved in this movement?

Do you have any questions, comments or concerns for us?