Helps individuals and families with filing a variety of USCIS forms. Services consist of legal consultations in which staff evaluate immigration legal options, advise how to proceed, and provide legal representation throughout the legal process:
-- Renewal or replacement of lawful permanent residence card (green card)
-- Family Petition (I-130) for qualifying family members
-- Fiance Petitions (I-129F)
-- Waivers of Inadmissibility (I-601/ I-601A)
-- Self-petitions under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
-- Adjustment of status for U-Visa, VAWA, Cuban Adjustment Act, Refugee/Asylee adjustment or family-based cases
-- Removal of conditions on lawful permanent status
-- Renewal or replacement or employment authorization document (work permit)
-- Refugee Travel Document (I-131)
-- Non-immigrant visa for survivors of crime (U-Visa)
-- Naturalization and certificate of citizenship
-- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
-- Humanitarian/Advance Parole
-- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests
-- FBI/CBP Background Requests
-- US Passport Application
-- Passport Photos
-- Immigration Court Proceedings
-- Immigration legal consultations
-- Translation of documents from Spanish to English
-- Community presentations and outreach to the immigrant and nonimmigrant community

Offers family based immigration (bringing a family member from another country), asylum, immigrant victims of crime, domestic violence, or human trafficking, DACA, citizenship , and minors who are in the USA without their parents.

Consultation clinics are routinely held in Bloomington-Normal, Champaign, Kankakee, Springfield, Peoria, and Carbondale. See website calendar for meeting information.

Provides immigration legal assistance to the indigent and to low-income immigrants. Assists some US citizens who need immigration counseling and help with the preparation of a variety of petitions including applications for citizenship. Some services available are, consultation about immigration legal matters, referrals to immigration attorneys and other organizations in cases out of the scope of these services, assists in the preparation of family petitions, legal residency (Green cards) and immigration visas, and assists in the preparation of applications for temporary benefits like DACA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Parole in- Place and the employment authorizations associated with those benefits.

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Offers the following support services to the immigrant and Spanish-speaking community, case management to residential and non-residential clients, safety planning, assistance with adjusting to the United States lifestyle, advocacy outside the community, including places of employment, schools, and other organizations, interpretation services, court advocacy, transportation to court or other organizations, Spanish empowerment and educational group for domestic violence, and information and referral for immigrants with no legal status in the United States to organizations that assist with immigrant relief.

Assists all refugees; provides programs for ESL, transportation, cultural orientation, and employment. Helps refugees learn to live and work in the United States.

Services include:

-- English as a Second Language.

-- Employment skills class.

-- Interpreters available to go with refugees to medical appointments or hospitals.

-- Advocacy.

-- Coordinates health and human services, ESL classes, housing with OHA, citizenship, drivers' licenses and classes, etc.

-- Public speaking.

-- Job placement for refugees.

-- Refugee resettlement from another country to Omaha.

-- Support groups.

-- Youth program.

Offers the following support services to the immigrant and Spanish-speaking community, case management to residential and non-residential clients, safety planning, assistance with adjusting to the United States lifestyle, advocacy outside the community, including places of employment, schools, and other organizations, interpretation services, court advocacy, transportation to court or other organizations, Spanish empowerment and educational group for domestic violence, and information and referral for immigrants with no legal status in the United States to organizations that assist with immigrant relief.

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.