Legal Services Resources for Immigrants: Los Angeles County
This list of California legal services providers who focus on immigration includes some organizations funded by the State Bar and others who frequently provide this service. The State Bar does not endorse specific providers. Please see the organization’s notes for more information. For a broader list of immigration legal resources, visit the State Bar website.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA), Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation before the Immigration Court
Location: 1145 Wilshire Boulevard, Second Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact: 213-977-7500, www.advancingjustice-la.org
Bet Tzedek Legal Services *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
Types of Legal Assistance: Represents unaccompanied children to secure SIJS
Location: 3250 Wilshire Boulevard, 13th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact: Erikson Albrecht, [email protected], 323-648-4704, www.bettzedek.org
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, St. Margret Center
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
Types of Legal Assistance: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Location: 10217 South Inglewood Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90304
Contact: 310-672-2208, www.catholiccharitiesla.org
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project
Areas of Legal Assistance: Asylum applications, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas
Types of Legal Assistance: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews),
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Legal Services Resources for Immigrants: Los Angeles County State Bar of California
Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
Location: 1530 James M Wood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Contact: 213-251-3505, esperanza-la.org
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
Areas of Legal Assistance: Support services for California Legal Services Providers including in the following areas: abused, abandoned, and neglected immigrant and refugee children eligible to legalize status as Special Immigrant Juveniles; enforcing rights of children detained pending deportation or removal; driver’s licenses; human trafficking and domestic violence
Types of Legal Assistance: Emergency and long-term shelter for minors without homes, including unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children; referral resources to legal services providers to assist vulnerable immigrants; legalization information
Location: 256 South Occidental Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Contact: 213-388-8693, www.centerforhumanrights.org
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, 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 Legal Assistance: 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
Location: 2533 West Third Street, Suite 101, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Contact: 213-353-1333, [email protected], www.chirla.org
Community Legal Aid SoCal – Compton *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Cancellation of Removal, Naturalization, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), T Visas, U Visa, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Location: 725 Rosecrans Avenue, Compton, CA 90222
11834 Firestone Boulevard, Norwalk, CA 90650
Contact: 800-834-5001, www.legal-aid.com
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El Rescate
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family- based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews), Representation before the Immigration Court
Location: 1501 West Eighth Street, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact: 213-736-1031, www.elrescate.org
Human Rights First
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum Applications, Removal Hearings
Types of Legal Assistance: 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
Location: 3680 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite P04-414, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Contact: 213-294-2648, [email protected], www.humanrightsfirst.org
Immigrant Defenders Law Center
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Family-based petitions, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas
Types of Legal Assistance: 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)
Location: 634 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Contact: 213-634-0999, [email protected], www.immdef.org
International Institute of Los Angeles
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum Applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Residency Cards ,T-visa, Temporary Protected Status-Visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Location: 3845 Selig Place, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Contact: For Appointments and Consultations: 323-264-6217, www.iilosangeles.org
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Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) – Los Angeles Office
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas
Types of Legal Assistance: Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews), Representation before the Immigration Court
Location: 888 West Sixth Street, Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact: 213-274-0170, [email protected], supportkind.org
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family- based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: 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
Locations: 5228 Whittier Boulevard, East Los Angeles, CA 90022 601 Pacific Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802 1550 West Eighth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 7000 South Broadway Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90003 1640 Fifth Street, Suite 124, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Contact: 800-399-4529, www.lafla.org
Los Angeles Center for Law & Justice *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Location: 5301 Whittier Boulevard, Fourth Floor, East Los Angeles, CA 90022
Contact: 323-980-3500, [email protected], www.laclj.org
Los Angeles County Bar Assoc., Immigration Legal Assistance Project
Areas of Legal Assistance: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Counsel and advice in all areas of immigration law, including assistance with various immigration applications, and legal referrals
Location: P.O. Box 531968, Los Angeles, CA 90053
Contact: 213-485-1872, www.lacba.org
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Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLSLA) *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: 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
Location: 13327 Van Nuys Boulevard, Pacoima, CA 91331
Contact: For Legal Assistance: 800-433-6251, www.nlsla.org
Public Counsel/Immigrants' Rights Project *
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Filings with USCIS, Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Federal court appeals
Location: 610 South Ardmore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90005
Contact: 213-385-2977 ext. 600, www.publiccounsel.org
Santa Clara University, Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center – Clinical Programs
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Family-based petitions, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of Legal Assistance: Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews)
Location: 1030 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126
Contact: 408-288-7030, www.law.scu.edu/kgaclc/immigration-law/
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