The University of Nebraska College of Law held its sixth annual Citizenship Clinic on Saturday, March 8. Nebraska Law students and attorney volunteers assisted individuals interested in self-filing applications to become citizens of the United States.
Sixteen individuals were assisted by volunteers during this year’s Citizenship Clinic. In addition to College of Law Immigration Clinic students, 22 law students assisted those applying to become citizens. The volunteers were also joined by Professor Carol Subiabre and six of her students from the Spanish for Law undergraduate course as well as a student from Professor Sara Ruser Houston’s Civil Liberties: Issues of Fairness and Equality undergraduate course. Attorneys Emma Franklin, ’22, Tanner Carlson, Natasha Naseem, ’22, and Jodi Garrelts, ’15, also volunteered as form reviewers and legal counsel.
Immigration Clinic students Darlene Gomez, ’25, Annabella Glatte, ’25, led the Citizenship Clinic this year including publicity, packet creation, volunteer recruitment and pre-screening applicants.
Volunteers assisted applicants in filling out the citizenship forms, ran background checks to verify that there were no unidentified issues that might bear on applicants’ abilities to naturalize, and gave them a “next steps” checklist to use when submitting their naturalization applications.
This is the sixth year that the Immigration Clinic has hosted the Citizenship Clinic event.
Immigration Clinic students who participated include:
- Annabella Glatte, ’25
- Darlene Gomez, ’25
- Fatima Al-Haidari, ’25
- Abigail Quintana, ’25
- Josephine Ramage, ’25
- Kalie Saunders, ’25
- Rebecca Stading, ’25
- Ashley Tomlinson, ’25
Law students who volunteered this year include:
- Maribi Aguilar, ’27
- Maddie Bechtel, ’26
- Elizabeth Chapman
- Emma Ehmke, ’27
- Aurora Garcia, ’25
- Sarah Gospodarek, ’26
- Chrissy Gulseth, ’27
- Katherine Houlden, ’27
- Kate Johnson, ’26
- Alexandra Klay, ’26
- Nicholas Marti, ’26
- Elena Pellumbi, ’26
- Josephine Ramage
- Meg Reinhart, ’26
- Eduardo Renteria, ’26
- Joshua Revia, ’27
- Abbey Rogers, ’27
- Taylor Ross, ’27
- Martha Sanchez-Hernandez, ’26
- Valeria Uribe, ’27
- Jessica Valdez, ’26
- Laura Vivas, ’26
- Elizabeth Wood
Undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who volunteered include:
- Maddie Banks
- Ruthie Barrett
- Cassidy Bell
- Lara Fanus
- Andrei Bon Ci Llanto
- Vivika Ortiz
- Sarah Quad
Professor Kevin Ruser and Assistant Paralegal Sydnee Schuyler also provided leadership and support for the event.
Cline Williams; the Nebraska/Iowa Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; and Professor Stephanie Pearlman, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the College of Law provided generous sponsorship for the event.
