Do you want to

• Help end immigrant poverty?
• Develop valuable nonprofit skills and experience?
• Give back to the community?
• Support an organization working with members of the immigrant and refugee communities?

If so, apply today to the NYIC VISTA position at Refugee Translation Project!

NYIC VISTAs are AmeriCorps VISTAs who – through the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) – engage in a year of full-time paraprofessional service at a nonprofit host organization, where they work on capacity-building projects that support their host in being able to carry out immigrant-focused anti-poverty programs and services.

The NYIC VISTA will work full-time for 12 months at Refugee Translation Project on capacity building projects around fundraising and communications.

Program benefits include:

• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
• Childcare assistance if eligible
• Living Allowance
• Health Coverage
• Training
• Relocation Allowance

To learn more information about this position and apply, please click here

Our client Yasmine won her asylum case! Yasmine left her home country in North Africa due to the extreme persecution she experienced as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Same-sex relationships are punishable by prison there. People often suffer physical abuse, receive death threats, and experience social and family ostracization.         

Yasmine applied for asylum in the US nine years ago, but due to the backlog of cases, her hearing was postponed. When her court date finally came, she needed RTP to urgently translate a new piece of evidence crucial to her upcoming case. We translated the document in time for her to submit it to the court. The immigration judge granted Yasmine asylum, and she is finally able to live safely and legally in the US. 

RTP is committed to providing rapid and accurate translation services that take into account the specific requirements necessary to tell these stories of persecution so that our clients can win their cases. 

During this Pride Month please take a stand, and support RTP in serving members of our LGBTQIA+ community who are seeking to live a life of dignity and safety. Your support can really make a difference in someone’s life! 

Help us win more victories like this by supporting our Translating Words Transforming Lives fundraising campaign.

Every day the Refugee Translation Project works closely with asylum seekers and legal service providers to deliver critical language support to communities and individuals in crisis.  Because of your support, RTP has helped prevent deportations and detention, win asylum cases, and produce essential resources so that people can better understand their legal rights. 

Together, we bring hope and opportunity to some of the most vulnerable in our communities. Behind every translated document is a person seeking safety, a family trying to stay together, a refugee fighting for the chance to rebuild their life with dignity.

As demand for our services continues to grow, your support ensures that language is never a barrier to justice, protection, or opportunity. To strengthen that commitment, we have launched our Translating Words Transforming Lives fundraising campaign to expand the number of people we serve.

Since the beginning of 2026, we’ve translated over 1,200 pages of documents for 136 clients. Lucia now has the opportunity for a fair asylum hearing in immigration court. Mamadou was able to submit high school transcripts and enroll in a CUNY degree program. Aisha was granted a guardianship in family court so that she could apply for her special immigrant juvenile status.

These are only a few examples of how just 5 to 10 hours of written translation can change a life.

 A gift of $50 begins the intake process for a new client.

 A gift of $100 enables our translators to translate important identification documents. 

 A gift of $500 covers the translation of a full asylum application.