Volunteer Guide
Centro Legal de La Raza
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Centro Legal de la Raza, founded in 1969, provides free or low-cost, bilingual, culturally-sensitive legal aid, community education, and advocacy for low-income residents of the Bay Area, including monolingual Spanish-speaking immigrants. Founded by Latino law students from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley and located in the Fruitvale / San Antonio District of Oakland, Centro Legal has been a cornerstone for justice for the Latino, immigrant, and low-income communities of the Bay Area for over 50 years. Centro Legal's Immigration Project represents immigrants in detained and non-detained removal proceedings before the San Francisco Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals, at the San Francisco Asylum Office, and in applications before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Centro is currently offering remote services during the shelter-in-place.
| Counties served: | Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma |
| Detention Facilities Served: | Contra Costa County Jail (CA), Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center (CA), Sacramento County Jail (CA), San Francisco Detention Facility (CA), Yuba County Detention Center (CA) |
Services Provided
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: | Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Habeas Corpus, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions |
| Populations served: | Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, 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: | English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish |
Additional Details
| Pro Bono opportunities? | Yes |