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Jewish Family & Community Services - East Bay

  • Location:
    2151 Salvio Street
    Suite 350
    Concord, CA 94520
  • Phone:
    925 927 2000
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Jewish Family & Community Services - East Bay (JFCS East Bay) promotes and strengthens the social and emotional well-being of diverse individuals and families throughout the entire East Bay community by providing quality free and sliding scale immigration legal services to people in all stages of the immigration process. We represent clients in citizenship, adjustment of status, U-visas, VAWA self-petitions, DACA, and removal proceedings and more.

State served: California

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, Habeas Corpus, Humanitarian Parole, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, 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
Non-legal services: Psychological or psychiatric services, Referrals to other services, Social 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, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Spanish
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: No
Nominal fee charged? Yes
Other information: Income qualified clients may be represented for no fee.

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 4
Is organization BIA recognized? No
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: 2

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? No
Network affiliations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)

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