Description
Immigration Legal ServicesThe Immigration Legal Services of Catholic Charities of Palm Beach program provides services to foreign-born individuals that are in need of immigration assistance.
While they focus primarily on family reunification, they offer a wide range of services in order to help those who are unable to access assistance in the private sector.
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
- 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)
Non-legal services:
- Employment services
- ESL
- Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR)
- Psychological or psychiatric services
- Referrals to other services
Social servicesPopulations served:
- Domestic Violence Victims
- Farm workers
- Human Trafficking Survivors
- Individuals who are not in legal immigration status
- Individuals with criminal histories
- Individuals with physical/mental disabilities
- Juveniles
- Lesbian
- gay
- bisexual & transgender
- Torture survivors
Languages spoken:
- English
- Gujarati
- Haitian Creole
- Hindi
- Spanish