Where to get more help



New York Immigration Hotline: (212) 419-3737 or (800) 566-7636
INS National Customer Service (800) 375-5283

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

    42 West 44th Street
    New York, NY 10036
    (212) 382-6629
    • Language(s): Spanish
    • Limited to: asylum and battered women seeking status.

Brooklyn Legal Services Corp.

    256-260 Broadway
    Brooklyn, NY 11211
    (718) 487-2300

    • Language(s): Spanish
    • Asylum: No
    • Limited to: Serve area of 11211-11206-11222-11237 zip codes.
    • Only battered women seeking status.

Caribbean Women’s Health Assoc. Immigrant Service Center

    123 Linden Blvd
    Brooklyn, NY 11226
    (718) 826-2942

    • Language(s): French, Spanish, Creole.
    • Asylum: Yes
    • May charge nominal fee

Catholic Charities,Office for Immigrant Services

    1011 First Avenue, 12th Floor
    New York, NY 10022
    Phone: (212) 371-1000 or 1011 ext. 2260
    Fax: (212) 826-6254

    • Language(s): Spanish, Creole, Korean, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Polish, German, Portuguese, Thai, Amharic, Albanian, Khmer
    • Asylum: Yes
    • May charge nominal fee

Catholic Legal Immigration Network

    1011 First Avenue, Room 1285
    New York, NY 10022
    Telephone: (212) 826-6251

    • Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Catholic Migration Office

    (Citizenship test preparation)
    1258 65th Street
    Brooklyn, NY 11219
    Telephone: (718) 236-3000
    Fax: (718) 256-9707

    • Languages: English, Cantonese, Haitian-Creole, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.

Central American Legal Assistance

    240 Hooper Street
    Brooklyn, NY11211
    (718) 486-6800


    • Language(s): Spanish
    • Asylum: Yes

Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)

    2070 Grand Concourse Blvd., Suite 1
    Bronx, NY 10457
    Telephone: (718) 731-3114
    Fax: (718) 901-1586

    • Contact: Victoria Gambino
    • Languages: English and Spanish, other.

Comite Nuestra Señora de Loreto Sobre Asuntos de Inmigracion

    856 Pacific Street
    Brooklyn, NY 11238
    (718) 783-4500

    • Language(s): Spanish, French, Italian
    • Asylum: Yes

Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Inc.

    119 West 24th Street
    New York, NY 10011
    (212) 367-1040


    • Language(s): Spanish, French, Creole
    • Asylum: Yes
    • Limited to: Represent HIV+ individuals only

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

    333 Seventh Ave
    New York, NY 10001
    (212) 613-1419
    (212) 613-1420 (Wackenhut Detainees only)

    • Language(s): Russian, Spanish, Polish, French
    • Asylum: Yes
    • May charge nominal fee

The Legal Aid Society Immigration Law Unit

    90 Church Street
    New York, NY 10007
    (212) 577-3300

    • Language(s): Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Haitian, Creole

Nassau County Hispanic Foundation, Inc., Immigration Law Service

    233 Seventh Street, 3rd Floor
    Garden City, NY 11530
    (516) 742-0067

    • Language(s): Spanish
    • Asylum: Yes
    • May charge nominal fee

New York Association of New Americans (NYANA)

    17 Battery Place
    New York, NY 10004
    Telephone: (212) 425-5051

    • Languages: Spanish, French, Haitian, Creole, Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Vietnamese
    • Asylum: Yes
    • Limited to: Non Detained Cases

Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights

    2 Bennett Avenue
    New York, NY 10033
    (212) 781-0355

    • Language(s): Spanish
    • Asylum: Yes
    • Limited to: Non Detained Cases

Safe Horizon Immigration Legal Services

    74-09 37th Avenue, Room 308
    Jackson Heights, NY 11372
    Telephone:(718) 899-1233 ext.129 (lawyers)
    (718) 899-4000 NY Immigration Hotline

    • Language(s): Spanish, French, Chinese, Haitian, Creole, Korean, Polish
    • Asylum: Yes
    • Limited to: Priority for survivors of domestic abuse, persecution, torture
    • Can represent those with non-violent criminal offenses.
    • May charge nominal fee

YMCA Elesair Project

    (ESL Classes)
    122 West 17th Street
    New York, NY 10011
    Telephone: (212) 741-4240
    Fax: (212) 741-4251

    • Office Hours: Mon-Thu, 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p. m.
    • Population served: all
    • Languages: Chinese, English, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalong and Vietnamese.

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