The Justice Center provides legal assistance to low-income North Carolinians in carefully selected, high-impact cases that are designed to help alleviate poverty by protecting or expanding important rights for large numbers of vulnerable people.
Targeted areas of law include
They focus on impact cases that will positively affect a large number of people by creating changes in policy, practice, or law.
They are geographically focused on eastern North Carolina, a region of the state which has not prospered economically and which has a large and growing immigrant population.
They provide free representation to low-income immigrants seeking lawful immigration status and relief from deportation.
They can only assist individuals who currently live in North Carolina.
If you need immigration help, please call us on Tuesdays at 1-888-251-2776 (toll free) from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
This phone number is for immigration legal assistance only.
Calls are answered by paralegals that are fluent in English and Spanish.
Due to the large demand for their services, they can only accept calls from possible new clients on Tuesdays.
If no one answers the phone when you call, please continue calling until you are able to reach a live person.
Please do not call other staff members as you will only be directed to contact the toll free number.
They cannot accept "walk-in" clients.