Helping Foreign-Born Individuals Navigate America's Legal System
Regardless of where someone is born, they have a right to due process in America. Even for people who are born here, the legal system is daunting.
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Our growing legal team is on hand to provide services to immigrants and refugees of all nationalities and backgrounds, including support for Legal Permanent Residency (green card), Naturalization applications, Employment Authorization, refugee/asylee family reunification petitions, family-based sponsorship applications, and overseas consular processing.
We also provide representation on other humanitarian relief matters before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) including but not limited to Asylum and Withholding of Removal, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), Humanitarian Parole and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Our legal team also represents non-detained clients in Immigration Court proceedings.
Community Outreach
IIB’s legal team provides informational presentations on various immigration law topics to community groups. If your group is interested in hosting a community outreach session, please contact us at (716) 883-1900, Ext: 305 or email cty@iibuff.org.
IIB Paves the Way for All Attorneys to Help Immigrants!
To address the backlog of immigration cases in our courts and connect foreign-born people living in the state with services, we are working in partnership with the New York State Office of New Americans (ONA) on a groundbreaking new program to recruit and train licensed attorneys across disciplines and practice areas to work in immigration law.
The goal of the ONA Pro Bono Immigration Attorney Program is to increase capacity and provide free legal services and support to immigrants in need in New York State. As part of this work, IIB is recruiting, training and mentoring attorneys to work on non-detained immigration cases. Pro bono attorneys are also working at our monthly legal clinics.
IIB is the only organization in Western New York, and one of eight statewide, selected for the exclusive program.
Other Services
Resettlement
We establish safe housing opportunities for immigrants and refugees by working with reputable landlords. We also assist by enrolling them in English as New Language (ENL) classes (formerly known as ESL), connecting with doctors, and signing them up for school and social services.
Employment
We provide job training programs to New Americans that prepare them to succeed in the workforce.