Legal Directory
The Bronx Defenders
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The Bronx Defenders provides innovative, holistic, and client-centered criminal defense, family defense, civil legal services, social work support, and advocacy to indigent people of the Bronx. Today, our staff of over 250 represents 35,000 individuals each year and reaches hundreds more through outreach programs and community legal education. In the Bronx and beyond, The Bronx Defenders promotes justice in low-income communities by keeping families together.
| Counties served: | Bronx |
| Detention Facilities Served: | Bergen County Jail (NJ), Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility (NJ), Essex County Correctional Facility (NJ), Hudson County Correctional Facility (NJ) |
Services Provided
| Are immigration legal services provided? | Yes |
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: | Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Habeas Corpus, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions |
| Types of immigration legal services provided: | Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews), Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Federal court appeals |
| Other areas of legal assistance: | Employment, Family & Juvenile, Homeless, Housing, Public Benefits, Veterans |
| Non-legal services: | Administrative advocacy (CIS/ICE/CBP), Referrals to other services |
| Populations served: | Detained individuals, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender |
| Languages spoken: | English, Spanish |
| Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: | No |
| Nominal fee charged? | No |
| Other information: | Full legal services to clients of criminal services program. Consultation and referrals provided to drop-in clients. Clients are primarily accepted through internal referral. |
Staffing Information
| Number of attorneys on staff: | 40 |
| 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: | 8 |
Additional Details
| Pro Bono opportunities? | Yes |
| Network affiliations: | American Immigration Lawyers Association, Detention Watch Network, Immigration Advocates Network, National Immigration Project |
Administrative Information
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| Last contact date: | August 7, 2018 |
| Administrator comments: | 10/4/12: tickler 12/4/13: tickler 3/3/15: tickler 4/8/16: tickler Not for inclusion in directory: Sarah Dari Oshiro sarahdo@bronxdefenders.org Supervisor: Mcgregor Smyth (718) 838-7885 07 Aug 2018: UTD |
| IAN Members? | No |
