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Welcome to the website of the Refugee Law Clinic Düsseldorf

We are an association of university students and offer free legal advice for refugees and asylum seekers. We support and advice you when you have to file applications, go to appointments at the German authorities or in other related issues. Our students are continuously trained in asylum and migration law and work closely with a pool of experienced lawyers in asylum and migration law in order to ensure that you get advice of high quality.

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In general, every university student, regardless of their field of study, can become an advising student in our association, studying law is not essential.

You will get the necessary knowledge in our lecture on asylum law held by practicing lawyers as well as in practice-orientated seminars. In order to advice on asylum and migration matters, you are required to pass the exam in the lecture.

Once you have fulfilled the requirements mentioned above, you can start advising. Thus, you can oversee our consultation hours and help refugees or asylum seekers directly if their cases are not too complicated or you can file the case for our internal case administration.

You can also take over a concrete case and work on it, together with other advising students, for a longer period of time.

During your case work, you are not on your own. We work closely with a pool of experienced lawyers in asylum and migration law who will supervise your work. Thereby, we want to guarantee that you are not overstrained and that cases that require consultation of a lawyer will get the proper advice as soon as possible.

 

What is our mission?

We want to help refugees and asylum seekers in order to provide proper and fair proceedings with German authorities and courts.

Who can join the RLC Düsseldorf?

Every student can participate, you do not have to be a law student. You will be trained with the other students in a lecture on asylum law as well as attend at least two seminars. After passing the exam at the end of the lecture you are allowed to give legal advice.

How does the legal training look like?

You will get the necessary knowledge in our lecture on asylum law as well as in practice-orientated seminars. In order to actively advice on asylum and migration matters, you are required to pass the exam in the lecture at the end of the semester.

What's in it for me?

Our advisors work on a voluntary basis. You can get credit for the lecture for „Studium Universale“. Our active advisors get a certificate from the university for their voluntary work.

 

What workload is to be expected?

Everyone only works as much as they can. If you like, you can take over a case or run our consultation hours. Every case is different and the workload, therefore, too.

 

Am I required to speak certain languages?

You should be able to speak German and English fluently. Speaking more languages is an asset. However, we also cooperate with a pool of interpreters who support us, if required.

Our team of well educated legal advisors supervise the consulting-hours and cases.

Within the scope of our activities, we work together with  other non – profit organizations and associations throughout Germany. Click on one of the logos if you are interested in one of our partners.