Legal Directory
Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
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The Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC), a non-profit organization founded on the belief of equal access to justice, works to protect immigrants’ rights to freedom and opportunity in the United States and save the lives of the most vulnerable immigrants and their families. PIRC provides free, effective legal representation, legal counsel, education, and advocacy to help immigrants obtain or protect their legal status. Programs focus on serving immigrants at risk of detention or removal, immigrant survivors of domestic violence/sexual assault, and lawful permanent residents seeking citizenship status.
| State served: | Pennsylvania |
| Detention Facilities Served: | Berks County Family Shelter (PA), Clinton County Correctional Facility (PA), Moshannon Valley (PA) |
Services Provided
| Are immigration legal services provided? | Yes |
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: | Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant petitions, Family-based petitions, Habeas Corpus, NACARA, 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: | Prisoners |
| Non-legal services: | Language services, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Referrals to other services |
| Populations served: | Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Torture survivors |
| Languages spoken: | Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Levantine), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese Chinese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Fuganese, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kashmir, Kazakh, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay-Indonesian, Malayalam, Mandarin Chinese, Marshallese, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Signers for the deaf: CDI, Signers for the deaf: Other, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Wu, Yiddish, Yoruba |
| Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: | Yes |
| Nominal fee charged? | No |
Staffing Information
| Number of attorneys on staff: | 9 |
| Is organization BIA recognized? | Yes |
| Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: | 5 |
| Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: | 0 |
| Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: | 2 |
Additional Details
| Pro Bono opportunities? | Yes |
| Network affiliations: | Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), New Americans Campaign |
Volunteering
| Volunteer Coordinator |
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Administrative Information
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| Administrator comments: | 06 Dec 2021: tickler 12 Jan 2022: updated from tickler responses. Deleted duplicate entry. (Checked to make sure was a duplicate first). Contact info from deleted entry: Administrative Information Contact Person: Elizabeth Miller (717) 600-8099 ext. 208 emiller@pirclaw.org Executive Director: Mary Studzinski (717) 600-8099 mstudzinski@pirclaw.org |
| IAN Members? | No |
