Volunteer Guide

Catholic Charities Fort Worth - Immigration Services (Fort Worth Office)

  • Location:
    249 W. Thornhill Dr
    Fort Worth, TX 76115
  • Phone:
    (817) 289-4399
  • Toll-free:
    1-866-727-1494
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Phone calls, Website
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Catholic Charities Fort Worth provides full immigration legal services to eligible individuals and families. We cover from basic consultations, to application preparation, filing, and representation.

Counties served: Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cottle, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Foard, Franklin, Grayson, Hardeman, Hood, Hunt, Jack, Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar, Montague, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Red River, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, Young

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, Family-based petitions, Humanitarian Parole, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, P1 or P2 for Afghans, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, 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
Non-legal services: Administrative advocacy (CIS/ICE/CBP), Citizenship / Civics classes, Employment services, ESL, Health services, Language services, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Legislative advocacy (state or national), Office Of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-funded services for trafficking victims, Psychological or psychiatric services, Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Levantine), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese Chinese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Fuganese, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kashmir, Kazakh, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay-Indonesian, Malayalam, Mandarin Chinese, Marshallese, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Wu, Yiddish, Yoruba
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? Yes
Other information: Services offered also in Arlington, Texas and Wichita Falls, Texas.

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 2
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 1
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 4
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 1

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: American Immigration Lawyers Association, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Immigration Advocates Network, National Immigration Project, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops