Immigration Services

EBCLC’s Immigration Program provides a full-range of free legal services to low-income immigrants on a wide range of immigration issues with a focus on the most vulnerable populations—people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, youth, and existing EBCLC clients struggling with other legal issues. Using a “kindergarten to college” model that addresses the interrelated legal needs of immigrants and their families, Immigration Program advocates provide representation and counsel for such issues as:

  • Adjustment of status
  • Consular processing
  • DACA (Please click here to visit our DACA legal services page)
  • Deportation defense
  • Family-based immigration for already existing EBCLC clients
  • Mitigating or eliminating the immigration effects of criminal convictions in partnership with the Clean Slate Unit at EBCLC 
  • Naturalization
  • Political asylum
  • Public benefits eligibility including complex eligibility issues in partnership with the Health & Welfare Unit at EBCLC
  • Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) including state court matters (guardianship, custody, etc.) necessary to get predicate orders for SIJS
  • T visas for survivors of trafficking
  • U visas for survivors of crime
  • Waivers

EBCLC’s Immigration attorneys represent clients before the Asylum Office, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, and Immigration Court, and on appeal before the Board of Immigration Appeals. The cases accepted for representation are dictated by the unmet needs of the community.

 

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