Legal Help for Immigrants
What is legal help for immigrants?
Several organizations in Worcester offer low-cost or free legal services for immigrants and other noncitizens. These organizations help with a wide range of immigration issues such as applications for green cards and citizenship, deportation proceedings, family-based visa petitions, and work authorizations.
Am I eligible?
Many agencies give legal services to all immigrants and noncitizens in need of help, without any specific eligibility requirements. For Legal Services Programs, however, you must be low income, on Medicare, or elderly.
What benefits will I get?
Some agencies have full or part-time attorneys to help with immigration issues. Other agencies have staff trained to help with immigration issues, but do not offer direct legal services. Staff members usually speak several different languages, depending on the agency and the population it serves.
Services are usually free or low cost.
How do I apply?
To find an agency that offers immigration legal services in Worcester:
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Contact a Worcester Immigrant Service Agency. Many of these agencies offer immigration legal services or can give you a referral.
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If you are low-income, elderly, or getting Medicare, call the Massachusetts Justice Project at 508-831-9888, or the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts at 508-752-3718. These two Legal Services organizations serve residents of Worcester County. For more information, see Legal Services Programs.
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Call the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition at 617-350-5480.
More information
More information about Legal Help for Immigrants is on our statewide web site, MassResources.org. When you click on the link below, you will go to MassResources.org. Click "Back" on your browser to return to WorcesterResources.org.
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