Prepares visa, green card, and citizenship applications for immigration lawyers.
Gathers birth certificates and translations, fills out long government forms, tracks deadlines, and updates clients on their cases.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Associate or bachelor's; paralegal certificate; second language valuable.
Ways in: 2-year college, 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Paralegal Studies, Languages.
Growing slowly (about 0% over 10 years).
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI fills long government forms, tracks deadlines and drafts translations, so firms need fewer paralegals.
Classes: Spanish or another language, Computer applications, AP Government.
Official data: O*NET occupation 23-2011.
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