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Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees

  • Location:
    201 Bleecker Street
    Utica, NY 13501
  • Phone:
    (315) 738-1083
  • Fax:
    (315) 738-1168
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Fax, Mail/Letter, Phone calls
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees offers a wide range of services to refugees and their families. We promote the well-being of immigrants and assist them in sustaining their cultural identity.

Counties served: Oneida

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration 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 immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Other areas of legal assistance: Nonprofit Organizations
Non-legal services: Citizenship / Civics classes, Language services, Office Of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-funded services for trafficking victims, Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender
Languages spoken: Albanian, Arabic, Burmese, Croatian, English, Farsi, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Khmer, Kirundi, Kurdish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Yoruba, Maay Maay, Karen, Rohingya, Swahili, Somali, Nepali, Kinyarwanda
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? Yes
Other information: This organization is a partner of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. Can serve clients statewide.

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 0
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 0
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 3
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 0

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), Lutheran Legal Service Organization, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), World Relief