Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

Goal 1: Build and expand the capacity of CLINIC's network and other nonprofits to serve low-income immigrants by promoting quality charitable immigration legal services.
Goal 2: Lead the nation in addressing disparities between needs and resources of affordable legal immigration services.
Goal 3: Continue CLINIC's excellent administrative advocacy, drawing from the experience of our network to shape priorities.
Goal 4: Respond to the growing needs of religious groups to help foreign-born religious workers minister to communities in the United States.

Strategy 1: Identify service gaps nationally and strengthen direct legal immigration service providers with CLINIC's services.
Strategy 2: Assist affiliates to understand the importance of and implement core standards and best practices in a uniform way across the network.
Strategy 3: Make training accessible to the network through innovative techniques involving cost-efficient means.
Strategy 4: Disseminate effective, updated information through CLINIC's website or other appropriate means.
Strategy 5: Maintain strong relationships with federal offices, the Administration, and national and local advocacy groups.
Strategy 6: Identify national trends and specific cases that necessitate administrative advocacy.
Strategy 7: Provide legal services, consultation, educational outreach and advocacy on religious workers to arch/dioceses and religious communities.
Strategy 8: Regularly assess the needs of the network and the impact of CLINIC's programs through evaluations of substantive legal immigration and program management trainings, annual calls with affiliates, the annual network survey, individual project outcomes, website analysis, etc.

The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) maintains a strong infrastructure to support progress toward the organization's long-term goals. Dedicated, expert staff promotes quality and efficiency in service delivery through multiple capacity building efforts. Annual calls, Attorney-of-the-Day Hotline, site visits, and technical assistance are benefits of membership with CLINIC's network that help immigration programs grow to accommodate higher numbers of newcomers with better quality services.
Furthermore, CLINIC has provided over $21 million to affiliates as a part of its grant funding activities in its thirty-two year history. The organization remains committed to providing funds, technical assistance, and substantive legal training to strengthen the network and its services.
Affiliates and non-affiliated grassroots community organizations benefit from a vast menu of trainings. Trainings vary by topic, skill level, format, and duration to fit every learner. CLINIC-produced resources, including training manuals, toolkits, a monthly newsletter, broadcast e-mails, etc., provide valuable information pertaining to low-income immigrants. CLINIClegal.org, the organization's website, houses a variety of tools for current and potential Religious Immigration Services clients, Catholic Archdioceses, Dioceses, and Religious Communities seeking to navigate the complexities of immigration law.
CLINIC draws from the experiences of its network to inform its advocacy efforts, bringing the important perspective of direct legal service providers. CLINIC is a partner with national and local agencies on multiple immigration-related projects. Some of the national partners include: ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Detention Watch Network, Immigration Advocates Network, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the National Immigration Law Center.
Another faculty of CLINIC's advocacy work, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) Pro Bono Project is the only appellate pro bono project in the country with a ten-year history of successfully placing unrepresented immigrants with pro bono representation before the BIA. CLINIC has partnered with 30 law school clinics and has accumulated more than 450 attorneys on its volunteer list since the inception of the BIA Pro Bono Project.
Concerning CLINIC's Religious Immigration Services, CLINIC assists 170 archdioceses, dioceses, and religious institutes to bring foreign-born religious workers to the U.S. for education, formation, or ministry. CLINIC offers a variety of legal and educational services to support the growing legal immigration needs of the Catholic Church.
To pursue Strategy 8, CLINIC analyzes trends within the network through a survey of CLINIC affiliate organizations, conducted by the Center for the Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University.

For over 30 years, CLINIC responds robustly to recent and current changes in the world of immigration law and policy. Guided by the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, CLINIC prepares its members to meet growing demands for legal screening, protection from deportation, adjustments of status and naturalization as U.S. citizens.

Established as a legally distinct 501 (c)(3) by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) the
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), advocates for humane and just immigration policy. Its field-based network of grassroots nonprofit immigration programs (380 affiliates in 47 states and the District of Columbia) is the largest in the nation. CLINIC provides affiliates and non-affiliates substantive legal and program management training and resources, as well as advocacy support at the state, local and national levels. CLINIC's affiliates serve a quarter of a million immigrants annually and represent one-third of the nation's Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) recognized agencies and almost half of the nation's BIA accredited representatives. Cases through CLINIC's BIA Pro Bono Project have set nationwide precedents, particularly in protecting immigrants with mental competency issues (Matter of M-A-M-, 25 I&N Dec. 474 (BIA 2011); Matter of E-S-I-, 26 I&N Dec. 136 (BIA 2013)). CLINIC has provided over $21 million in flow-through funds to affiliates to serve those in need in their communities. CLINIC assists over 170 arch/dioceses and religious institutes by bringing international religious workers to the United States in service to the Catholic Church for education, formation, and ministry.

With progress made toward the realization of CLINIC's long-term goals, opportunities for enhanced achievement remain. One such area of focus is the continuous design and implementation of evaluation practices. Garnering the highest possible response rate on the annual survey of CLINIC affiliates, currently at 86%, will ensure that the highest quality usable data is collected. CLINIC is committed to accurately reflecting the impact of its programs and services as the organization responds to the ever-changing needs of its network.
Furthermore, opportunities to achieve CLINIC's long-term goals include capacity building in geographic areas where the need exceeds the resources available or in agencies where improvement is needed. Proactive relationship building with advocates at all levels is a chance to document and share best practices for program design and management with a wider audience.