International Rescue Committee (Oakland Office)

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Location:

440 Grand Avenue

Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94610

Website:
http://www.rescue.org

Phone:
(510) 452-8222

Contact methods:
Drop-in, Email, Fax, Mail/Letter, Phone calls, Website
Appointments accepted:
Yes

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive and rebuild their lives through a variety of programs and services that include but are not limited to, advocacy, resettling refugees, and empowering the most vulnerable members of society.

Counties served:

Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Yolo, Yuba

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), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of immigration legal services provided:	Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Non-legal services:	Employment services, Health services, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Office Of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-funded services for trafficking victims, Referrals to other services
Populations served:	Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender
Languages spoken:	Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Croatian, English, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Tigrinya
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank:	No
Nominal fee charged?	Yes

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:	2
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff:	0