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The Amica Center for Immigrant Rights (Amica Center) strives to ensure equal justice for all immigrant men, women, and children at risk of detention and deportation in the DC metropolitan area and beyond. CAIR Coalition provides legal services to adults held in the custody of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Virginia and Maryland and to unaccompanied minors who are held in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in Virginia and Maryland.

Ayuda’s immigration legal team represents low-income immigrants from all over the world in immigration matters before the Baltimore and Arlington Immigration Courts, local Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts, the Arlington Asylum Office, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, the U.S. Department of State, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Our attorneys provide immigration legal services from our offices in Washington, DC, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Fairfax, VA.

Our Services

Services include, but are not limited to:

Family-based immigration applications
Removal defense
Asylum
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)
Humanitarian applications (victims of crime, domestic violence, human trafficking)
Violence Against Women Act petitions
Adjustment of status to permanent residence
Naturalization (citizenship)
Temporary Protected Status
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Need help with an immigration matter? The first step toward a solution is to come in for a consultation with one of our staff. Consultations are by appointment only.

The cost for a consultation is $100, though no individual is turned away for an inability to pay. And Ayuda continually strives to find funding sources that enable us to serve clients at no cost to the client. Pay special attention to the different service hours between the offices in DC, Virginia and Maryland.

To make an appointment, please call 202-387-4848.

Project END is a direct legal services project aimed at remedying the harm caused by immigration legal services fraud. Project END provides advice, counsel, and representation to victims of fraud in civil, criminal, and immigration proceedings.

Ayuda’s Project END encourages consumers to submit complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Complaints are viewed by local and national law enforcement and government agencies to identify and take action against businesses or individuals who defraud immigrant consumers.

Ayuda Project END has created a guide to show how to submit notario/legal services fraud complaints in DC, MD, VA, and nationally, with a summary of the potentially relevant civil and criminal statutes in each jurisdiction.

The Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC) provides legal assistance on a range of legal issues including abuse prevention, family, immigration, employment, housing, disability and public assistance to low-income Asian Americans who have limited English proficiency residing in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Northern Virginia. We prioritize immigration matters involving victims of domestic violence, crime or trafficking.

The Immigration Clinic at George Washington University School of Law provides legal representation to noncitizens in the DC-area. The Clinic represents individuals before the Arlington Immigration Court, USCIS in Fairfax, VA, and the Arlington Asylum Office. Our focus is on humanitarian forms of relief, with any emphasis on asylum (both affirmative and defensive) and family-based petitions; employment-based cases are not handled at the Clinic. Non-detained cases only. Intakes are only open during the fall and spring academic semesters.

Human Rights First is an independent advocacy and action organization that challenges America to live up to its ideals. We believe American leadership is essential in the global struggle for human rights, so we press the U.S. government and private companies to respect human rights and the rule of law. When they fail, we step in to demand reform, accountability and justice.

Human Rights First’s Refugee Representation team promotes human rights by assisting refugees fleeing persecution. We achieve this goal by providing direct representation and partnering with pro bono lawyers to help our clients access social services and legal protections in the United States consistent with international law.  We then use that experience to advocate for laws and policies that protect refugees.

KIND was founded by Angelina Jolie and the Microsoft Corporation to create a pro bono movement of law firms, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and volunteers to provide quality and compassionate legal counsel to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the United States. KIND serves as the leading organization for the protection of unaccompanied children who enter the U.S. immigration system alone and strives to ensure that no such child appears in immigration court without representation. We achieve fundamental fairness through high-quality legal representation and by advancing the child's best interests, safety, and well-being. KIND has offices in ten cities in the United States - Baltimore, Boston, Houston, Newark, New York City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Seattle. KIND finds pro bono attorneys in law firms and corporations who agree to represent KIND's child clients in their immigration proceedings. KIND pro bono coordinators in each office provide training on representing unaccompanied children in the U.S. immigration system and comprehensive mentorship until the case is completed.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) is a global leader in the protection of unaccompanied refugee and migrant children. Launched in 2008, KIND champions a world in which every child’s rights and well-being are protected throughout their journey to safety. KIND has provided nearly 18,000 children with high quality representation in their immigration proceedings by training more than 41,000 attorneys and legal staff and cultivating partnerships with over 600 law firms, corporate legal departments, law schools, and bar associations across the country.

KIND’s social services program ensures that migrant and refugee children – who have often endured trauma – receive counseling, educational support, medical care and other comprehensive services.

To address the root causes of child migration from Central America and strengthen protection of unaccompanied children, KIND advocates for policy changes and educates lawmakers, the media, and the broader public on the conditions that drive these children to flee their home countries. KIND supports children returning to their home countries by connecting them to essential support services and sponsors gender-based violence prevention programs in Central America to protect children in countries of origin and transit.

KIND is also building upon its expertise in the protection of unaccompanied children to encourage the development of pro bono initiatives across Europe in partnership with European NGOs.

NAHRA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes and defends the human rights of Nicaraguan migrants and refugees who had to flee their home country due to persecution.. Preparation of Asylum Petition and translation of Personal Declaration for those fleeing persecution with an emphasis on high vulnerability groups such as religious, racial and ethnic minorities, women and children.

The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants' Legal Services Program provides low- and pro-bono professional legal representation to refugees and immigrants in their family- and humanitarian-based immigration matters.

Mil Mujeres Legal Services is an organization that helps victims of violence by petitioning for immigration status with The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. We provide low-cost legal services to low-income families who would not otherwise be able to afford legal services.