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RefugeeOne
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Provides an array of immigration services in Cook, DuPage, and Lake Counties.
| Counties served: | Cook, Du Page, Lake |
Services Provided
| Are immigration legal services provided? | Yes |
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: | Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, 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 |
| Non-legal services: | Employment services, ESL, Language services, Legislative advocacy (state or national), Office Of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-funded services for trafficking victims, Psychological or psychiatric services, Referrals to other services, Social services |
| Populations served: | Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors |
| Languages spoken: | Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Croatian, Dari, English, Farsi, French, Iraqi, Italian, Khmer, Kirundi, Nepali, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Ukrainian |
| Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: | No |
| Nominal fee charged? | Yes |
| Other information: | Services are by appointment only. This organization is a partner of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. |
Staffing Information
| Number of attorneys on staff: | 0 |
| Is organization BIA recognized? | Yes |
| Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: | 0 |
| Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: | 4 |
| Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: | 6 |
Additional Details
| Pro Bono opportunities? | Yes |
| Network affiliations: | American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, Asista, Boat People SOS, CARE, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Central American Resource Center, Church World Service, Detention Watch Network, Episcopal Migration Ministies, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Ethiopian Community Development Council, Freedom Network, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Immigrant Children's Lawyers, Immigration Advocates Network, International Rescue Committee, Justice for our Neighbors/United Methodist Committee on Relief, Kids In Need of Defense, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), Lutheran Legal Service Organization |
Administrative Information
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| Last contact date: | August 8, 2016 |
| Administrator comments: | 1/6/15: tickler 8/8/16: tickler |
| IAN Members? | Yes |
