- Archdiocese
of Detroit - For more than 25 years, the Archdiocese
has been committed to the immigrants and refugees
of the Detroit metropolitan area by providing immigration
legal services, as well as resettlement and acculturation
assistance to those in need.
- Asylumlaw.org
- This is a free website run by an international consortium
of agencies that help asylum seekers. Over 95% of
the content on this site is open to the public, including
asylum seekers from any country and the lawyers or
advocates who represent them.
- Asian
Pacific American Legal Center - APALC is a nonprofit
agency which has become the largest organization in
southern California that provides Asian and Pacific
Islander and other communities with multi-lingual,
cultural sensitive services and legal education. The
Immigration and Citizenship Unit provides immigration
and citizenship assistance to individuals and their
families, educates the public on important immigration
issues, and advocates for fair and sensible immigration
law and policies.
- Catholic
Charities, USA - Catholic Charities encourages
people to help themselves by learning to advocate
for their rights. By providing leadership, technical
assistance, training and other resources, this national
agency enables local offices to better devote their
own resources to serving their communities. The site
contains a list of Catholic Charities offices throughout
the country that offer refuge and immigration assistance.
- Freedom
House - Detroit, MI - Freedom House is an interdenominational,
nonprofit charity that provides food, clothing, shelter
and legal services to people of all races and creeds.
Freedom House works to legally resettle refugees into
Canada or the United States, speak out against injustice
and educate for systemic change. Freedom House is
fully accredited by the U.S. Department of Justice
and the Board of Immigration Appeals.
- HIAS
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society - The oldest international
migration and refugee resettlement agency in the U.S.,
HIAS provides information and a broad program of services
at all stages of the migration process for refugees
and migrants, and advocates for fair and just policies
on their behalf.
- Human
Rights Initiative (HRI) - This organization is
dedicated o the promotion of international human rights
and services to immigrants and refugees who have suffered
human rights abuses. Legal Services provides
consultation and representation before the INS, the
EOIR, and the BIA for those seeking asylum.
HRI also provides other services to individuals once
they are granted asylum.
- Immigrant
and Refugee Appellate Center - The Immigrant and
Refugee Appellate Center, LLC ("IRAC") is
a law practice devoted to immigration appellate work
on behalf of aliens. IRAC represents aliens on appeal
at the administrative and federal levels. It assists
attorneys and accredited representatives with same-day
filings at the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA").
It collects and makes available unpublished BIA decisions
which provide insight into the constantly evolving
world of immigration law. It also mentors law student
interns and externs who wish to hone their appellate
skills.
- Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay
Area -
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights is devoted
to advancing the rights of people of color, poor people,
and immigrants and refugees, while maintaining its
historical commitment to provide legal advocacy for
African-Americans. Since its inception in 1968, the
Lawyers' Committee has supported the rights of minority
and low-income individuals by offering free legal
assistance in civil matters and by litigating cases
that have the potential of improving the lives of
people often ignored by the legal system.
- Lawyer's
Committee for Human Rights - LCHR works to protect
and promote fundamental human rights, including the
protection of refugees through the representation
of asylum seekers and by challenging legal restrictions
on the rights of refugees in the United States and
around the world.
- The
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (or http://www.elca.org/dcs/lirs.html)
- LIRS is the national agency set up by Lutheran churches
in the United States to carry out the churches' ministry
with uprooted people. LIRS programs include: refugee
resettlement, foster car for refugee minors, assistance
for political asylum seekers, immigration training
and consulting, legislative advocacy, and public education.
- Mayor's
Office of Immigrant Affairs and Language Services
- This site contains information for and about immigrants
in New York city, and a listing of resources and city
agencies that provide assistance to immigrants. Promotes
the interest and needs of immigrants and provides
language-related services to immigrants and others
with limited English language skills. The Office also
works with community-based organizations to improve
city services to immigrants.
- NYANA
- The New York Association for New Americans, Inc
- NYANA Works to help those new to this country, and
those who have been here for some time, fashion a
roadmap for accomplishing their goals and dreams.
NYANA provides a comprehensive array of immigration-related
legal assistance, including preparing and filing applications
for asylum, permanent residency, work authorization,
replacement of lost documents, and family reunification.
- Office
of Refugee Resettlement - ORR’s mission
is to assist refugees and other special populations
in obtaining economic and social self-sufficiency
in their new homes in the United States. To
do this, ORR funds and facilitates a variety of programs
that offer, among other benefits and services, cash
and medical assistance, employment preparation and
job placement, skills training, English language training,
social adjustment and aid for victims of torture.
Effective June 15, 2000, asylees are eligible for
refugee assistance and services beginning on the
date that they are granted asylum. The date that
the individual is granted asylum is considered his
or her "entry" date for the purpose of computing
the ORR benefits eligibility period. Frequently
asked questions regarding asylee eligibility for
Refugee Assistance and Services can be found here:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/hotlines/asylee.htm
- Refugee
Law Center - The Refugee Law Center is devoted
to strengthening the human rights of refugees and
immigrants through legal representation, research,
educational initiatives, and policy development. The
Center works in collaboration with other human rights
and refugee policy and legal representation organizations
in the United States and other countries, and provides
position papers, amicus curie (friend of the court)
briefs, legal support, human rights and country conditions
documentation, and legal representation on issues
relating to refugee protection.
- VIVE
La Casa - (Buffalo, NY) Vive La Casa assists asylum
seekers who are making their way into Canada. VIVE
provides food, shelter, medical, legal, and other
services to refugees who would otherwise be homeless
in the city of Buffalo.
- Washington
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
- The Committee represents both individuals and groups
regarding their civil rights cases, employment, housing,
public accommodations, claims based on discrimination,
and assists immigrants seeking asylum and other help.
The Committee's litigation efforts have become nationally
known for landmark court victories, record judgements
and precedent-setting consent decrees.
LAW SCHOOL IMMIGRATION CLINICS
- The
George Washington University Law School - The
Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics - Immigration
Clinic - In this clinic, aliens subject to deportation
or exclusion orders in immigration courts are represented
by students under faculty supervision.
- St.
Mary’s University School of Law - The Immigration
and Human Rights Clinic Course Students
advocate on behalf of clients before immigration and
federal courts, representing refugees applying for
asylum, defending claims to US Citizenship, seeking
permanent resident status for undocumented individuals
with strong ties to the US, and applying for waivers
of removal for immigrants with lengthy US residence.
- Villanova
University School of Law - The Clinic for Asylum, Refugee
and Emigrant Services - CARES students represent refugees
who seek asylum in the United States because of threatened
persecution in their home countries.
- Hamline
University located in St. Paul, Minnesota - Immigration
ClinicStudents work with clients under the supervision
of Susan Koberstein at the law offices of Centro Legal.
Case types include family-based petitions, naturalization,
adjustment of status, Violence Against Women Act,
and others.
- Southern
New England School of Law - Immigration Clinic - This
clinic provides students with intensive training in various
immigration law issues under the supervision of a faculty
member and attorney/field supervisor chosen from the South
Coast legal community.
- The
University of California Hastings College of the Law - THE
IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS CLINIC - The clinic provides four
to six students who are taking or have taken the substantive
immigration law course with direct experience in representing
clients facing removal by the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, seeking U.S. political asylum, or applying for
citizenship.
-
The
University of Houston Law School - Immigration Clinic
Law students learn about immigration law through actual
representation of indigent immigrants and refugees before
the Immigration Court and the Immigration and Naturalization
Service.
- University
of Idaho - College of Law - Tribal and Immigration Clinic
- In the Clinic's Immigration track, second -and third-year
students work on cases before the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, administrative courts, the Board of Immigration
Appeals, and Federal Courts.
- The
University of Maryland - School of Law -Immigration
Clinic Students will prepare asylum claims, which will include
extensive client interviewing, international fact investigation,
brief writing, and asylum interviews before Immigration
Service adjudicators. They will appear before Immigration
Judges and address issues of asylum and detention of immigrants.
- University
of Minnesota Law School - Immigration Clinic The Immigration
Law clinic is designed to offer legal assistance to low-income
immigrants who have come to the United States seeking a
safe haven from political, religious or ethnic persecution.
- The
University of Southern California - The Law School - Immigration
Clinic - Law students in the Immigration Clinic represent
clients before the Immigration & Naturalization Service
(INS), the Immigration Court, and certain law enforcement
agencies. The clinic handles cases ranging from asylum claims
to claims for relief from deportation filed by people being
held by the INS at regional detention centers.
- The
University of Texas - School of Law - Immigration Clinic
- Students represent low income immigrants before the immigration
courts and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, including
bond and deportation hearing, asylum applications, VAWA
cases and applications for discretionary relief. Students
will interview clients, develop case strategy, prepare witnesses
and present cases before the court and the agency.
- The
University of Washington - School of Law - Immigration
Clinic - After a seminar culminating in mock hearings,
students are based at the Northwest Immigrant Rights
Project, where they represent clients in immigration
proceedings. The practice includes client interviewing
and counseling, case theory development, fact-gathering
and discovery, identifying and obtaining expert witnesses,
preparing documentary evidence, and participating
in hearings before immigration judges.
- Northwestern
University School of Law - Children and Family Justice Center
- The Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) is a comprehensive
children's law center where law students, under the supervision
of attorneys and clinical professors, represent young people
on matters of delinquency and crime, family violence, school
discipline, health and disability, and immigration and asylum.
*To add your own agency or other useful resources to this
list, please contact the Coordinator, Steven Lang, at Steven.Lang@usdoj.gov.
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