National Immigration Legal Services Directory

Legal Services NYC (Manhattan Legal Services)

  • Location:
    55 West 125th Street
    New York, NY 10027
  • Phone:
    (917) 661-4500
  • Fax:
    (212) 348-4093
  • Contact methods:
    Phone calls
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

New York Legal Services is an organization devoted to providing free civil legal services to the low-income and underserved residents of New York.

Counties served: NY (Manhattan)

Services Provided

Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Other areas of legal assistance: Consumer, Disability, Education, Employment, Family & Juvenile, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Public Benefits, Veterans
Non-legal services: Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR)
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender
Languages spoken: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese Chinese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Filipino, French, Fuganese, German, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ilocano, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Malay-Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yiddish
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? No
Other information: For an appointment, please call our hotline at (917) 661-4500 on Mondays - Fridays from 10 am - 4 pm. Services are subject to LSC funding restrictions.