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Offers free or low-cost legal assistance and support to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

Legal Services

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- Includes assistance with forms, filings, interviews, and representation before immigration courts
- Helps with special immigrant juvenile status, visas, temporary protected status, and VAWA petitions

Helps foreign-born individuals who have experienced domestic violence qualify for legal status.

Legal Services

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- Help completing and filing VAWA self-petitions
- U-visa and T-visa application guidance
- Petitions to remove conditions on permanent resident status
- Citizenship petitions
- Limited affirmative asylum cases based on domestic violence
- Accompaniment to court hearings and referrals to other community programs as needed
- Support in filing for additional family members

Offers legal assistance for issues related to housing, employment, and immigration matters.

   
Legal Assistance

• Education services include ESOL classes, basic computer training, and citizenship preparation 
• Offers pro bono legal clinics in East County, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, and Wheaton

Offers a resource center with access to a variety of programs and services for individuals in need.

Case Management, Helplines and Information

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- Provides referrals and bus tokens to reach shelter and local support services
- Offers personal mail and telephone use, toiletries, and blankets
- Crisis intervention, basic case management, and immigration services are available
- Coordinates on-site services, such as legal aid, Department of Veterans Affairs outreach, barbers, and tax preparers

• Includes employment assistance, legal services, family reunification, and asylum counseling 
• Accepts donations of home furnishings and household appliances

• Helps refugees in need of resettlement assistance 
• Assists foreign national victims of human trafficking

• Helps refugees in need of resettlement assistance 
• Assists foreign national victims of human trafficking

• Appeals immigration laws - Helps unaccompanied immigrant children 
• Offers pro bono representation to individuals detained in jails in Maryland and Virginia and Maryland residents who have been detained by ICE in other states

• Helps with matters related to employment, disability benefits, housing, immigration, and school 
• Covers divorce, custody, safety planning, peace and protective orders, and privacy issues

Provides legal assistance for children who are facing deportation, have returned to their home countries alone, or are victims of human trafficking.

Legal Services

• Includes assistance with issues related to immigration, domestic violence, and family law 
• Provides language interpretation services 
• Training for direct service providers available 
• Offers information on children and youth, human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault

• Education services include ESOL classes, basic computer training, and citizenship preparation 
• Offers pro bono legal clinics in East County, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, and Wheaton

Provides immigration legal services.

Immigration Legal Services

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• Includes assistance with language translation, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) applications, and family-based petitions
• Offers classes for citizenship preparation, English, and health education
• Provides support for finding employment
• Helps with taxes

• Held in the evenings and on Saturday mornings 
• Childcare is provided while classes take place

• Includes assistance with issues related to immigration, domestic violence, and family law 
• Provides language interpretation services 
• Training for direct service providers available 
• Offers information on children and youth, human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault

Offers legal consultations on immigration issues.

Immigration Legal Services

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• Available on Wednesdays; registration is required 9:30am to 11:30am
• Provides seminars, updates, and referrals related to immigrant issues

• Appeals immigration laws - Helps unaccompanied immigrant children 
• Offers pro bono representation to individuals detained in jails in Maryland and Virginia and Maryland residents who have been detained by ICE in other states

Provides legal assistance in civil cases related to family and domestic, children in need of assistance, housing, employment, public benefits, and consumer issues.

Legal services

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- Available during the school year; closed from May to mid-August

• Works with public and private organizations throughout the state 
• Provides guidance on nutrition, healthcare, education, housing, employment, and benefits

• Conducts citizen workshops 
• Assists victims of domestic violence with family law matters

• Provides legal consultation for humanitarian and family-based immigration cases
• Assists with tenant advocacy and promotes homeownership

• Works with public and private organizations throughout the state 
• Provides guidance on nutrition, healthcare, education, housing, employment, and benefits