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HIAS (New York Office)

  • Location:
    1359 Broadway
    Suite 810
    New York, NY 10018
  • Phone:
    (212) 613-1341
  • Toll-free:
    1-800-442-7714
  • Fax:
    (212) 967-4442
  • Contact methods:
    Phone calls, The legal intake phone line is connected solely on the first Friday of every month from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm EST.
  • Appointments accepted:
    No

HIAS provides direct legal representation to immigrants in the New York Metropolitan area who fall under 200% of the poverty guidelines and are in some way afraid to return to their home country before USCIS, New York and Newark Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Counties served: Bronx, Dutchess, Kings (Brooklyn), Nassau, NY (Manhattan), Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Rockland, Suffolk, Ulster, Westchester

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, 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 immigration legal services provided: 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
Non-legal services: Administrative advocacy (CIS/ICE/CBP), Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Other languages provided via language line.
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: 0
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 0

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: American Friends Service Committee, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Church World Service, Detention Watch Network, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), Lutheran Legal Service Organization, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, NYU/Belleve Program for Survivors of Torture