Volunteer Guide

International Institute of Wisconsin

  • Location:
    1110 N. Old World 3rd St.
    Suite 420
    Milwaukee, WI 53203
  • Phone:
    (414) 225-6220
  • Fax:
    (414) 225-6235
  • Contact methods:
    Email, Phone calls
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

International Institute of Wisconsin provides low-cost legal immigration and naturalization counseling and technical assistance to immigrants and their families.

Counties served: Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, Waukesha

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, 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
Non-legal services: Citizenship / Civics classes, ESL, Housing referrals, Language services, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Legislative advocacy (state or national), Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Albanian, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Levantine), Bosnian, English, German, Hmong, Italian, Kurdish, Laotian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Thai
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: 0
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 3
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 0

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants