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Camba Legal Services

  • Location:
    20 Snyder Avenue
    Brooklyn, NY 11226
  • Phone:
    (718) 940-6311
  • Fax:
    (718) 462-5537
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Phone calls
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Camba Legal Services (CLS) provides free legal services to the poor and working poor in New York City.

Counties served: Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), NY (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island)

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Habeas Corpus, 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), Federal court appeals
Other areas of legal assistance: Consumer, Family & Juvenile, Housing
Non-legal services: Administrative advocacy (CIS/ICE/CBP), Employment services, ESL, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Legislative advocacy (state or national), Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, 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: Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese, English, French, Haitian Creole, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Wolof
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? No

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 3
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? No
Network affiliations: Immigration Advocates Network, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)