Project Rousseau offers full-scope, comprehensive immigration services. This includes a full screening with an attorney or Department of Justice accredited representative, to assess a family’s suitability for immigration relief.

We are currently seeking to raise $100,000 to hire an Immigration Attorney who will allow us to further expand our immigration legal services to meet the growing demand in New York City.

It is our policy not to host pro-se clinics, because we believe that families with a strong immigration relief claim deserve the right to quality legal representation. These services are intended to serve all communities, with the families we have screened hailing from 17 different countries. Furthering that end, we have hosted eight asylum information sessions at various public fora across the city and assisted over 300 individuals with change-of-address forms relevant to their immigration relief applications.

The scope of our legal services has greatly expanded in recent times to meet the ever-growing new arrival population in New York City.

Since December 2022 alone, we have offered comprehensive immigration evaluation to over 950 individuals, including nearly 400 students enrolled in New York City public schools.

Our full-scope legal representation extends to over 250 individuals: our caseload includes defensive and affirmative asylum applications, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, and U-Visa applications.

To meet this demand, we have partnered with four law firms and a law school and engaged over 150 attorneys and law students as volunteers to strengthen the pro-bono assistance we can offer our clients. Over 70 volunteer interpreters have also provided translation services to assist our many Spanish-, Dari-, French-, Fulani- and Russian-speaking clients.

Project Rousseau Immigration Legal Services

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Project Rousseau Immigration Legal Services

Expanding Immigration Legal Services for Asylum Seekers