Immigration court track

Immigration court interpreter practice, graded the way the record is read back

Master calendar colloquy, credible fear interviews, asylum testimony on direct and cross, bond hearings and USCIS interviews, voiced by a cast and scored on the names, dates, A-numbers, relief terms and register a reviewer would check. Spanish and English.

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  • 71 drills across consecutive, simultaneous and sight
  • 1,433-term glossary aligned to USCIS and EOIR
  • Same grader as the court track
Session review
Merits hearing: direct examination
86%
withholding of removal under section 241(b)(3)credited
heard · “suspensión de remoción conforme a la sección 241(b)(3)”
they threatened to kill my brothercheck this
heard · “amenazaron con matar a mi hermano”, your call
A-number 2 1 6 4 4 0 9 1 2missed
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Who it is for

Who the immigration track is for

Interpreting in immigration court is its own setting. The procedure, the relief vocabulary and the testimony all differ from state criminal court, and the people who need to practice it come from three directions.

Inside the track

What is in the track

The modules are listed the way a member sees them in the app. Each one has consecutive, simultaneous or sight drills, sometimes all three, plus a term set and a numbers warm-up that targets A-numbers, dates and case numbers.

20
consecutive drills
18
simultaneous drills
20
sight documents
1
full-length mock
  1. 01Master calendarPleadings to the NTA, designating a country of removal, scheduling, the advisals.
  2. 02Credible fear interviewAsylum officer questions and the applicant's narrative, consecutive.
  3. 03Merits hearing: directRespondent testimony about the harm, the people, the dates.
  4. 04Merits hearing: crossGovernment counsel probing inconsistencies, with the register shifts that come with it.
  5. 05Witnesses and expertsFamily members, country-conditions experts, psychologists.
  6. 06Bond and custodyCustody redetermination hearings: flight risk, danger, sponsors.
  7. 07Cancellation and hardshipHardship testimony for cancellation of removal, qualifying relatives.
  8. 08USCIS interviewAdjustment and naturalization interviews, officer and applicant.
  9. 09Decisions on the recordOral decisions and appeal advisals, simultaneous at the judge's pace.
  10. 10Documents from homeSight translation of civil documents, Spanish to English.

Plus four foundation drills, a term set per module and numbers warm-ups, shared with every track.

Graded like the exam

How grading works

The same scoring-unit grading as the court track. Every drill ships with an answer key of the specific units a reviewer would check: names, A-numbers, dates, country names, relief terms, section numbers, and the register of the testimony. Your recording is transcribed and matched against the acceptable renditions for each unit.

  • Relief terms are scored as terms, not paraphrasesWithholding of removal is not asylum, and cancellation is not adjustment. The key lists the accepted renditions and the ones that lose the unit.
  • Numbers get their own warm-upA-numbers, hearing dates, dates of entry and form numbers are where immigration interpreters drop units. A numbers set drills them before the hearing drills.
  • Uncertain calls are flagged, not failedWhere the transcript is ambiguous the unit is marked yellow and you make the call. One tap teaches the grader your phrasing.
Read the scoring units guide
Weak spots
by scoring category
Numbers & dates58%
Slang & idioms64%
Register78%
Legal terms91%
Tomorrow's docket targets Numbers & dates: your weakest category gets the most reps.
Flashcards · due today
14
missed on Tuesday
withhold of adjudication
suspensión del fallo condenatorio
againhardgoodeasy
Glossary

A glossary aligned to USCIS and EOIR

1,433 terms across seven modules: relief and status, court procedure, persecution and harm, institutions and places, civil documents, USCIS and forms, and the criminal crossover. Where USCIS or EOIR publish a Spanish rendition, that is the one shown first. Every term is browsable in the app and one tap from your flashcard deck.

Sources: USCIS glossary and Spanish form instructions, EOIR Spanish respondent materials, and CourtFluent-written renditions (marked CF) where the agencies publish nothing.

Browse every module
Notice to Appear→Notificación de Comparecencia
USCISEOIR
withholding of removal→suspensión de remoción
USCIS
credible fear interview→entrevista de temor creíble
USCIS
aggravated felony→delito con agravante
EOIR
About the contractor test

The EOIR contractor's qualification test is not published. What we know about its format comes from candidates who have taken it: a mix of consecutive and simultaneous passages with hearing content, graded on accuracy and completeness. The drills here follow that description and the hearing types EOIR publishes, but we have not seen the test and do not claim to replicate it. If you have taken it and something here is off, tell us at team@courtfluent.com.

Founding member rate

Lock in $19.99/month for life

One plan covers every track: court, immigration and medical. Founding members pay $19.99 a month for as long as they stay subscribed, even after the standard rate moves to $39 at public launch. Cancel anytime, including during the free trial.

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Common questions

Is this for the EOIR contractor qualification test?

It is built for the work the test screens for: interpreting hearings in both modes with the right relief vocabulary and clean numbers. The test itself is not published, so we follow what candidates report about its format rather than claiming to copy it. Members who pick the contractor test as their exam get a docket paced to the date they enter.

I am already a certified court interpreter. Do I need this?

If you are moving into immigration work, yes for the vocabulary and the procedure. Most of the criminal crossover module will be familiar. Relief, the persecution register, the institutions respondents name from home, and the master calendar colloquy usually are not. You can add the immigration track to an existing court membership in Settings.

Can I hold two tracks?

Yes. One membership covers every track. You switch the active track in the sidebar and each keeps its own docket, progress and flashcards. Numbers and foundation drills are shared.

Which languages?

Spanish and English. The audio cast is American English for the court side and Latin American Spanish for respondents, with the regional variation you hear in Central American and Mexican testimony.

Does the sight translation run Spanish to English?

Mostly, yes. The civil documents module is birth certificates, police reports, medical records and letters from home rendered into English, which is the direction immigration sight work usually runs. A few English documents (notices, forms) run the other way.

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