The demand for immigration lawyers has increased substantially in recent years due to a rise in immigration and immigrants coming to the United States from different cultural backgrounds. This has attracted more law students to specialize in immigration law and has prompted more law firms to create immigration law departments. Various committees have also taken steps to improve the standards and availability of immigration lawyers to meet growing public demand. The increased demand has led to greater competition to enter law school and become an immigration lawyer. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts continued job growth in the field of around 13% over the next decade, providing opportunities for new immigration lawyers.

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Elizabeth Alvarez
Susan Lester
Advanced Composition
26 September 26, 2011
Why Has the Demand Increased for Immigration Lawyers?
Currently in the United States, there are approximately more than 12,000 lawyers
practicing in immigration law, which about 11,800 lawyers are part of the organization American
Immigration Lawyers Association according to their websites. In the recent years, immigration
has been increasing more quickly than what had been predicated. Immigration is a hot issue that
has made front page headlines in the newspaper and also has been a constant discussion in both
Congress and society. The field of immigration law has always been non-beaten path, but
because of the rise of demand for more professional immigration lawyers, more people are
starting to go down the path to become an immigration lawyer.
Over the years, as the United States has become more appealing to foreign people, many
people desire to come into this nation which results in an increased demand for professional
immigration lawyers. Immigration is something that is increasing very rapidly. In consequence
of this, there is more of a demand for lawyers, especially lawyers certified in immigration affairs.
Because of this increased desire for moving into the United States, many more immigrants desire
to migrate to the country which causes a large amount of lawyers to specialize now in
immigration. Before the increase of immigrants, there has usually been an iota amount of
immigration lawyers in certain firms, especially in large cooperate firms. Recently, a larger
amount of corporate law firms have been participating in immigration cases. This has helped the

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practice of immigration gain more credit in the world of law practices. As students enter law
school, many have grown a mentality that going into the practice of immigration laws is
something that does not benefit them and tend to stay apart from the practice. Because of the
avoidance, there has always been a limited amount of students going into the practice of
immigration lawyers. Furthermore, the law firms that have increased the number of immigration
cases have helped the practice of immigration law earn more credit in the world of law.
Immigration clinics are also becoming more common as a result of more and more law schools
holding them. Coincidently, more students are professing more interest towards immigration
law.This increase has attracted more students to aspire to work towards entering law school,
which has also increased the number of applicants. This number increase converts law schools to
become more selective for accepting students.Law schools will have to widen their occupation
spaces and the number of buildings for the number of students. Consequently, these problematic
factors have caused a new type of collision in both careers and society.
Immigration today is production an immense impact on society, and also college students
as well as current professional attorneys. Because of the high amount of immigrants coming into
the country from different cultural backgrounds, there are many results demonstrating change
choices made in career fields. Many people are now looking into the profession of immigration
law, and also related jobs as notaries and consultants (Henin-Clark 60). The direct impact of this
rise in immigration population has proven to be a huge factor as more people search for a
promising career in immigration law path. Students might not take the career choice to become
an immigration lawyer, but the students might decide to pursue another in that field path. Other
careers might include becoming notaries, paralegals, and specialized paralegals in immigration.
As more immigration issues commence to arise in the public eye, more attorneys are being

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attracted to this practice on law. They believe that this interest will result in an increasing
number of general-practice firms participating more in this specific practice (Immigration
Lawyers/ Attorneys in High Demand). Before immigration became a popular topic, many law
students would become cooperate lawyers who specialized in business laws. Now that
immigration is a broad topic now, more law students look towards immigration laws as a more
promising area currently in the United States. People’s interests are slowing shifting from other
specialized areas of law to immigration laws. This shift may result in many people specializing
into immigration law. The Polsonelli law firm commenced its own department of immigration
recently. This decision was made after concluding that many lawyers were demanded to help
with subjects pertaining to immigration law (Immigration Lawyers/ Attorneys in High Demand).
The opening of a new department by the law firm Polsonelli demonstrates the high demand for
more immigration services available to the public and also foreigners. With the new department,
more people are going to have the opportunity of having a service within their own area. Given
these points, immigration its self has demanded more lawyers to specialize in immigration laws
which also has to be resolved to reach equilibrium between the demand in society and the
number of attorneys available.
Due to the fact that the demand for immigration attorneys has risen, firms are creating
new and also improved types of exams to offer the best quality if immigration attorneys that
firms may have to offer. A Florida committee has vowed to increase the number of certification
of immigration lawyers, but also retaining the high standards of the examination (Henin-Clark
60). This Florida committee is trying to prompt more prepared immigration lawyers to
foreigners. This is needed since many people are being robbed form their money. The
committee’s desire to contain more professional lawyers in this field is a result of more demand

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for prepared lawyers for the public. The annual BLSE conference strongly suggested posting a
couple exam questions so that future testers can view the reality of the high difficulty level of the
questions (Henin-Clark 60). This study tool for immigration lawyers is a huge advantage since
there is a grand competition in each metropolitan area. Even though these questions are available
in a quick click on a computer, many do not this opportunity seriously and result in a failing bar
test result. After law school, joining the AILA, is recommended for finding any job in one’s
current location. The majority of immigration lawyers are registered member of the American
Immigration. Because this organization is well known, many people look into this association
and conclude that their members are well prepared immigration lawyers. An immigration lawyer
that is not a registered member in the AILA, is considered a non-well prepared lawyer. This is
not always true since many lawyers that are not members are prepared, but cannot afford to pay
the registration fee. As a result of all the open opportunities given to immigration lawyers, better
quality lawyers are being available to the people of society.
The efforts made by many committees to promote better immigration lawyers, have
caused a dramatic increase over the recent years and also is predicated to continue increasing.
Some struggles, according to the US Bureau Labor Statistics, that will be faced for entrance to
any type of law school are competition. Because of the existence of competition, the student
must have a high GPA and great scores on the LSAT render as a worthy competitor. The
competition today for even getting into any law school makes it very difficult to students
desiring to enter. This poses a unique kind of problem for those students that have created a
desire for becoming into an immigration lawyer. This result elevates the number of people
applying for entrances into the law schools and also the rising number of the people that are
graduating from the field of immigration laws. It is recommended to graduates, who desire

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working as an immigration lawyer, to relocate to places where demand is very high; for example,
Henderson, Nevada, Belknap, New Hampshire, New York, New York, and Denver, Colorado.
This recommendation is given out to graduates since there is more demanding need in those
certain areas that create a more attractive place for employers to seek professional immigration
lawyers. As a result of this demand, cities will begin over crowd themselves as not only
immigration lawyers, but also other professionals, move into the city as they get employed in
certain areas. The “Bureau of Labor Statistics,” has predicted that there will be a job growth of
about 13% for immigration lawyers in the course of 10 years. This estimate provides a long
expansion of a staggering increase in the number of job openings for future immigration lawyers.
For a future graduating student of this era of time, there will be job openings to available her as
she graduates from law school. This may be a consequence in either more foreigners wanting to
enter the country, or people already in the country wanting to complete their citizenship. In
conclusion, for future immigration lawyers, there will be a bright opportunity for them to acquire
a job opening available and will hopefully gain more experience in the field they have so long
prepared for.