Volunteer Guide

International Service Center - Immigration Services

  • Location:
    21 S. River St
    Harrisburg, PA 17101
  • Phone:
    (717) 236-9401
  • Fax:
    (717) 236-­3821
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Fax, Mail/Letter, Phone calls, Website
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

The International Service Center offers representation to clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Immigration Court, and the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Counties served: Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, York

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant petitions, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
Other areas of legal assistance: Civil Rights, Community Development, Education, Employment, Health, Nonprofit Organizations
Non-legal services: Citizenship / Civics classes, Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)-funded services for trafficking victims, ESL, Health services, Language services, Office Of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-funded services for trafficking victims, Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese Chinese, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, English, Farsi, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hindi, Hmong, Indonesian, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? Yes

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 1
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 1
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 1
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 5

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Immigration Advocates Network, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), American Translators Association

Volunteering

Volunteer Coordinator
Tuan Bui
717-236-9401