Volunteer Guide
Bronx Legal Services (Legal Services NYC)
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For decades, Bronx Legal Services has provided free civil legal services to low-income Bronx residents. As a program of Legal Services NYC, the largest provider of free civil legal services in the country, Bronx Legal Services aims to fight poverty and seek justice for the most vulnerable populations in the Bronx by providing legal advice and representation in matters involving family law, immigration, housing, education, government benefits, taxes, consumer law, and foreclosure. Since 2000, Bronx Legal Services has provided high-quality legal services to low-income intimate partner violence (IPV) and elder abuse survivors living in the Bronx. In addition, our Family and Immigration Unit prioritizes representation of survivors in cases involving orders of protection, custody, visitation, child support, spousal support, and divorce, and files dozens of U and T non-immigrant and adjustment of status applications, VAWA self-petitions, and battered spouse waivers each year. The Family and Immigration Unit also accepts a wide variety of immigration cases, which includes family-based petitions, naturalization, removal defense, SIJS petitions, and asylum.
Counties served: | Bronx |
Services Provided
Areas of immigration legal assistance: | Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions |
Populations served: | Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors |
Languages spoken: | Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese Chinese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Filipino, French, Fuganese, German, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ilocano, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Malay-Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yiddish |
Additional Details
Pro Bono opportunities? | Yes |