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MinKwon Center for Community Action

  • Location:
    133-29 41st Ave
    Suite 202
    Flushing, NY 11355
  • Phone:
    (718) 460-5600
  • Fax:
    (718) 445-0032
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Phone calls
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

The MinKwon Center for Community Action is a grassroots, immigrant rights organization dedicated towards empowering the Korean American community, and working with the wider Asian American and immigrant communities to achieve economic and social justice for all.  

State served: New York

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, 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 before the Immigration Court
Other areas of legal assistance: Housing
Non-legal services: Administrative advocacy (CIS/ICE/CBP), Health services, Language services, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Legislative advocacy (state or national), Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender
Languages spoken: English, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: No
Nominal fee charged? No

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 2
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 0
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 2
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 1

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, Immigration Advocates Network, Asian American Bar Association of New York, Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York, New York Immigration Coalition

Volunteering

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