American Bar Association Commission on Immigration

The American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Immigration directs the ABA's efforts to ensure fair treatment and full due process rights for immigrants and refugees within the United States. Pro bono programs operated by the Commission include Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ), the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), the Immigration Justice Project (IJP) of San Diego, the Detention Standards Implementation Initiative (DSII), and the The Fight Notario Fraud (FNF) Project.

American Immigration Lawyers Association

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national association of more than 11,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. AILA works with pro bono attorneys to represent low income and indigent immigrants before the agency and the federal courts nationwide. In addition to the many pro bono initiatives at AILA chapters across the country, AILA supports the AILA Member Pro Bono Pledge, the Military Assistance Project (MAP), and AILA Citizenship Day.

Catholic Legal Immigration Network

Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) is a non-profit legal support organization incorporated in 1988 to serve the nation's most vulnerable immigrants, including refugees/asylum-seekers, detainees, families in need of reunification, laborers abused in the workplace, and survivors of violence. CLINIC recently celebrated the ten year anniversary of its BIA Pro Bono Project.

Pro Bono Net

Pro Bono Net is a national nonprofit organization that works in close partnership with nonprofit legal organizations across the United States and Canada to increase access to justice for the millions of poor people who face legal problems every year without help from a lawyer, by supporting the innovative and effective use of technology by the nonprofit legal sector, increasing participation by volunteers, and facilitating collaborations among nonprofit legal organizations and advocates working on similar issues or in the same region.

The Advocates for Human Rights

The Advocates for Human Rights is dedicated to the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights. With the help of over 800 volunteers, The Advocates for Human Rights documents human rights abuses, educates and advocates on human rights issues, and provides training and technical assistance to prevent human rights violations. As the leading center for asylum seekers in the Midwest, The Advocates for Human Rights provides brief and ongoing legal services in more than 1,000 cases on behalf of asylum seekers, immigration detainees and immigrants each year.