CASE PROCESSING SPECIALIST (COLUMBIA, SC)

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

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Who We Are:

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Why Work for GEO:

• We believe that work is more than a place you go to every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things.
• Employee benefits play an important role in making The GEO Group a great place to work. At GEO, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing: physical, emotional, and financial. With comprehensive benefits and competitive wages, we trust that you will find all the resources you need here to be successful.

Responsibilities

Summary:

The Case Processing Specialists assists ICE Personnel with immigration records management and document preparation. Works under the general direction of ICE field office personnel.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Process cases and perform all peripheral activities, immigration records management, and document preparation.
• Prepare, review, and manage case files, ensuring accuracy and completeness in all documentation.
• Ensure Alien Files (A-files) and ICE systems reflect a case status that is updated, accurate, and complete.
• Accurately enters data into ICE systems, ensuring compliance with agency protocols and data integrity requirements.
• Maintain and update electronic and paper-based case files, ensuring compliance with federal privacy laws, DHS policies, and federal data security requirements.
• Retrieve, compile, and organize county, state, and federal court records, conviction documents, and supporting case materials from multiple databases, and other government sources.
• Maintain up-to-date case status records, court scheduling details, and case tracking logs.
• Generate case status reports and monitoring dashboards.
• Assist with docket coordination with EOIR and USCIS. Coordinate with ICE officers to facilitate interviews, hearings, removals, and case updates.
• Review appropriate paperwork for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure all administrative applications are reviewed, A-files are updated, and docket officers timely notified for appropriate law enforcement action.
• Track compliance with release conditions and report violations, as applicable.
• Assist ICE Office of Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) in obtaining criminal history checks and other supporting documentation as needed prior to court.
• Assist ICE personnel with scheduling and coordinating interviews between detainees and ICE officers, consulates, and legal representatives, as assigned.
• Organize and prepare removal documents and coordinate with ICE personnel for scheduling removal and staging flights. Ensure all documentation is prepared and accurate.
• Ensure aliens scheduled for removal have the necessary documentation in A-files per ICE instructions.
• Ensure travel information, ICE Air scheduling and manifest(s) are completed, detention center release forms are prepared, and property inventories/receipts are ready on the scheduled time and day of departure.
• Ensure detainees have the necessary legal paperwork, seven-day supply of medications, property, and valuables before transfer or removal.
• Collect, review for completeness and accuracy, and file signed Form I-205 Warrant of Removal/Deportation departure verifications in A-file.
• Ensure case is closed in ICE data systems and file is transferred to the National Record Center for storage.
• Schedule interviews between detainees and ICE officers, consulates, and legal representatives as applicable.
• Communicate with all detainees in the detainee’s primary language using translation device/services if needed.
• Provide other logistical and administrative support for ICE personnel as assigned.
• Provide surge support after hours, including expanded breadth and depth of tasks, as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Associate’s degree from an accredited institution or one (1) year of directly related industry experience required.
• Experience and/or training related to reviewing law enforcement documentation such detention files, custodial records, or immigration case files including A-files and DHS databases, or previous experience conducting interviews for immigration or detention related purposes required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline is preferred.
• Knowledge of program objectives, policies, procedures, and requirements related to immigration case processing.
• Proficient with general PC application software products (Microsoft Office suite).
• Ability to exercise initiative, judgment, and knowledge in the performance of complex, confidential, and sometimes difficult duties.

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