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La Maestra Community Health Centers

  • Location:
    4147 Fairmount Ave.
    San Diego, CA 92105
  • Phone:
    (619) 961-0813
  • Contact methods:
    Email, Phone calls, Walk-ins
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

La Maestra Community Health Centers is a community-based organization offering immigration services to the low-income communities of San Diego County. La Maestra Immigration Services offers a wide range of immigration services including removal defense, asylum, SIV, family-based applications, naturalization, fee waivers, DACA.

Counties served: San Diego
Detention Facilities Served: San Diego CDF (CA)

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, Employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant petitions, Family-based petitions, Habeas Corpus, Humanitarian Parole, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, P1 or P2 for Afghans, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of immigration legal services provided: Filings with USCIS, Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
Other areas of legal assistance: Public Benefits
Non-legal services: Health services
Populations served: Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, 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: Dari, English, Hindi, Italian, Pashto, Spanish
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? No
Other information: Most services are offered on a pro bono basis. Some are offered on a low cost basis.

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: 1
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 3

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: National Immigration Project, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)

Volunteering

Volunteer Coordinator
Valerio Calanni
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