Immigration

Immigration

Legal Services NYC provides free consultation and representation to immigrants in the following areas:

  • Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA) (self petitions to adjust legal status for undocumented victims of domestic violence);
  • Naturalization Applications and Appeals (our Immigrant Citizenship Projects in the Bronx and Manhattan received excellent ratings in their recent evaluations by the Department of Youth and Child Development);
  • Green Card and Work Permit Renewals; and
  • Family Based Immigration Petitions.

In all our immigration legal services work, we partner with neighborhood based immigrant advocacy and service organizations and provide language access services where needed to ensure that our clients are well served.

Restrictions imposed by the federal Legal Services Corporation prevent us from representing undocumented immigrants with the exception of clients who are victims of domestic violence or human trafficking.

Despite these restrictions, Legal Services NYC is able to meet the legal needs of thousands of immigrant families each year by providing representation in a broad range of civil matters and in all of the categories of immigration-related service needs listed above.

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Did You Know?

Between 1970 and 2000, the total foreign-born population in New York City nearly doubled, from 1.44 million to 2.87 million.

These 2.87 million people make up 36% of the city’s population of 8 million.

Nearly 43% of the City’s foreign-born are recent entrants (entering in the 1990s).

Immigrants play a crucial role in the City’s labor market, comprising 43 percent of all City residents in the labor force in 2000.

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