Volunteer Guide

RefugeeOne

  • Location:
    4753 N. Broadway
    Suite 401
    Chicago, IL 60640
  • Phone:
    (773) 989-5647
  • Fax:
    (773) 989-0484
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Mail/Letter, Phone calls
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Provides an array of immigration services in Cook, DuPage, and Lake Counties.

Counties served: Cook, Du Page, Lake

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, 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: Employment services, ESL, Language services, 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 with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Croatian, Dari, English, Farsi, French, Iraqi, Italian, Khmer, Kirundi, Nepali, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Ukrainian
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: No
Nominal fee charged? Yes
Other information: Services are by appointment only. This organization is a partner of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 0
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 0
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 4
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 6

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, Asista, Boat People SOS, CARE, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Central American Resource Center, Church World Service, Detention Watch Network, Episcopal Migration Ministies, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Ethiopian Community Development Council, Freedom Network, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Immigrant Children's Lawyers, Immigration Advocates Network, International Rescue Committee, Justice for our Neighbors/United Methodist Committee on Relief, Kids In Need of Defense, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), Lutheran Legal Service Organization