Action NYC
Hotline 800-354-0365
The program offers all New Yorkers free, safe immigration legal help in a network of trusted community-based organizations at community sites, public health facilities, public schools, and libraries. Services are provided in your language. Your immigration status does not matter.
This organization provides:
Answers to immigration-related questions
Information on immigration policy
Connections to City-funded, free and safe immigration legal help including comprehensive immigration legal screenings and legal representation
Referrals to other community-based resources and support services
For more information visit:
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/immigrants/help/legal-services/actionnyc.page
CUNY Citizenship NOW!
Full time Center: Hostos Community College Immigration Center
427 Walton Ave., T-501
Bronx, NY 10451
718-518-4395
Local Part-Time Center:
City Council Member Mark Gjonaj’s Office
1478 Williamsbridge Rd.
Bronx, NY 10461
718-931-1721/ 212-652-2071
CUNY Citizenship Now! centers offer free immigration services to all members of the community (both CUNY students and non-students).
For more information visit
http://www1.cuny.edu/sites/citizenship-now/services/
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ)
1384 Strafford Avenue
Bronx, New York 10462
212-549-2660
YMPJ’s social justice mission includes immigration services designed to help immigrants navigate legal hurdles, including tax and citizenship forms. Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) accredited representatives with the Department of Justice, provide in-depth consultations, information services, legal clinics, and application filings.
For more information visit
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
212-549-2660
The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against immigrants.
For more information visit
https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights
The Bronx Defenders
360 East 161st Street
Bronx, NY 10453
(718) 838-7878
Email: immigration@bronxdefenders.org
Areas of legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Habeas Corpus, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Provides the following services: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews), Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Federal court appeals
For more information visit
https://www.bronxdefenders.org/