The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) protects and promotes human rights and access to justice for immigrants, refugees, and asylees in the United States.
The NIJC was born as a program of the Heartland Alliance, an organization that works for human rights by promoting various solutions for a fairer society. The NIJC focuses on providing legal services and defending the human rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylees. Their work has been sustained thanks to the collaboration of law firms that promote their work to support hundreds of people in a vulnerable situation due to immigration.
Annually, this organization provides legal services to more than 10,000 people and has a special impact on asylum seekers and asylees fleeing persecution in their country. The success rate of the NIJC and its partners is 90% in these cases.
The National Immigrant Justice Center offers specialized services for asylum seekers; Dreamers and recipients of Deferred Action (DACA); applicants for citizenship, permanent residence and visas; detained immigrants; trafficking victims; LGBTQ+ immigrants; unaccompanied minors; Immigration Court cases, among others.
Services are offered exclusively to individuals and/or families with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. That is, individual income of 27,180 dollars per year or 64,940 dollars in families of five members.
In addition to providing legal services, this center also develops publications and research that shows the reality of asylees and refugees, Dreamers, and DACA recipients.
In the following link you can schedule an appointment: https://immigrantjustice.org/es/servicios-legales-de-inmigracion. Your appointments are only made at the Chicago and Indiana offices.
Likewise, on its website it has a section of legal resources for immigrants such as immigrant rights, self-help content for immigrants and other resources for legal and social services: https://immigrantjustice.org/es/recursos-legales
