Immigration Legal Services offers lower-cost and sometimes no-cost legal counsel to immigrants and refugees. We help people gain work authorization, family reunification, permanent residency, special visas, and more. And we’re proud to provide services in the language of our clients.

Immigration Legal Services opens between 900 and 1,000 new cases each year while still working on at least 1,600 already existing cases for an annual caseload of at least 2,500. Typically, cases take two to five years to resolve. Our program is recognized by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Access and is dedicated to helping clients gain access to the freedoms of our society.

• Consultations
• Employment Authorization Documents
• Travel documents
• Permanent residence (green card)
• Family reunification
• Consular processing
• Fiancé(e) visas
• Removal of conditions on residence
• Citizenship/Naturalization
• Special immigrant juveniles
• U, T and VAWA cases
• Asylum
• Limited representation in deportation

We operate on a flat rate, fee-for-service schedule. Although these fees are significantly lower than those charged by private attorneys, many clients remain unable to afford them. Every client is asked to pay a small portion of their fee to increase ownership and nurture dignity. The remaining portion (or all of it if they are unable to pay), is charged against grant funding. No client is turned away due to inability to pay.

• Catholic Legal Immigration Network
• Immigration Advocates Network
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center
• American Immigration Lawyers Association 
• National Immigration Project
• American Civil Liberties Union 
• ASISTA
• US Citizenship and Immigration Services