Legal Directory
Legal Services NYC (Manhattan Legal Services)
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New York Legal Services is an organization devoted to providing free civil legal services to the low-income and underserved residents of New York.
| Counties served: | NY (Manhattan) |
Services Provided
| Are immigration legal services provided? | Yes |
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: | Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions |
| Types of immigration legal services provided: | Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS |
| Other areas of legal assistance: | Consumer, Disability, Education, Employment, Family & Juvenile, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Public Benefits, Veterans |
| Non-legal services: | Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR) |
| Populations served: | Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender |
| 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 |
| Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: | Yes |
| Nominal fee charged? | No |
| Other information: | For an appointment, please call our hotline at (917) 661-4500 on Mondays - Fridays from 10 am - 4 pm. Services are subject to LSC funding restrictions. |
Staffing Information
| Number of attorneys on staff: | 3 |
| Is organization BIA recognized? | No |
| Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: | 0 |
| Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: | 0 |
| Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: | 0 |
Additional Details
| Pro Bono opportunities? | Yes |
| Network affiliations: | Immigration Advocates Network |
Administrative Information
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| Last contact date: | February 26, 2018 |
| Administrator comments: | 2/14/12: staffing updated. 9/17/12: tickler. 12/3/13: tickler 1/6/15: tickler 3/28/16: tickler 26 Feb 2018: tickler |
| IAN Members? | Yes |
