MOIA Legal Support Centers

The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs has multiple Legal Support Centers across the City that offers New Yorkers free, safe immigration legal help. These centers are housed in community sites, public health facilities, public schools, and libraries. Services are provided in your language. Your immigration status does not matter.

The MOIA Legal Support Centers provide:

• Free legal screenings to find out if you qualify for any immigration benefit
• Free legal help from an experienced attorney or accredited representative for a range of cases including:
• Citizenship
• Green card applications and renewals
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
• Referrals to City-funded and community-based resources and support services

Each MOIA Legal Support Center has strong immigration legal expertise, local community ties, and cultural and linguistic competence that help them meet community specific needs.

You can call the City-funded, free, and safe MOIA Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 800-354-0365, or call 311 and say, "Immigration Legal," between 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday to Friday, to get:

• Answers to immigration policy questions
• Information on how and where to find City-funded, free, and safe immigration legal help

Please note that the MOIA Immigration Legal Support Hotline does not schedule people for legal appointments directly. For more information on how to find a provider that speaks your language and near your neighborhood, please call the MOIA Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 800-354-0365. Additionally, if your annual household income is more than 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, you may not be eligible to receive services from certain City-funded legal service providers.

You may also visit the service sites listed below. Due to high demand, it is not guaranteed that there will be available appointments for screenings. Learn more about the MOIA Immigration Legal Support Hotline. The section is located by the type of program that the provider is in: CBOs, Hospitals, Libraries, and Schools.

MOIA Legal Support Centers

Community Sites

African Communities Together

• Address: 127 West 127th Street, Suite 221, New York, NY 10027
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Phone Number: (347) 746-2281
• Language(s) Spoken: English, French, Mandingo (Bambara, Dioula, Malinke), Wolof, Pular, Fulani, Arabic
• Referral / Intake Tool: Please call the phone number above or email info@africans.us or nylegal@africans.us.

African Services Committee

• Address: 429 West 127th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10027
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (212) 222-3882
• Language(s) Spoken: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Wolof
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above, at extension 2173.

Arab American Association of New York

• Address: 6803 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 745-3523
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Arabic
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above; reception will collect basic information, such as name, phone number, type of appointment, borough, language, etc., and navigators will give a call back.

BronxWorks

• Address: 1130 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10456
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Numbers:
• General Line: (718) 508-3200
• Attorney 1: (929) 999-4257
• Attorney 2: (718) 508-3091
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish, French
• Referral / Intake: Please call Attorney 1 or Attorney 2 (phone numbers provided above) or email mnelson@bronxworks.org or alopez@bronxworks.org

CAMBA

• Address: 20 Snyder Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11226
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 940-6311
• Language(s) Spoken: Spanish, Haitian Creole
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above to schedule an appointment.

Caribbean Women’s Health Association

• Address: 3512 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM; third Saturday of the month, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
• Phone Number: (929) 399-8070, please press 1 (immigration department)
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Haitian Creole, Spanish

Center for Family Life

• Address: 443 39th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11225
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 438-9500
• Language(s) Spoken: Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above to schedule an appointment.

Chhaya CDC

• Address: 3743 77th Street, 2nd Floor, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 478-3848
• Language(s) Spoken: Bengali, Spanish, Guyanese Creole
• Also Available: Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Nepali, Tibetan, Punjabi
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above and either dial the navigator’s extension or go to the general line to leave a voicemail or speak with someone.

Chinese American Planning Council

• Address: 133-14 41st Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 358-8899
• Language(s) Spoken: Mandarin, Cantonese, English
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above. Additionally, you can walk in and speak to the front desk, who will advise you on who and what number you should call at CPC for an appointment. Please note that an appointment is needed to access the building beyond the first floor.

Haitian Americans United for Progress (HAUP)

• Addresses:
• 1760 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11226
• 209-05 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, NY 11428
• Phone Numbers:
• Brooklyn: (718) 233-1186
• Queens: (929) 474-9417
• Email: info@haupinc.org

Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement

• Address: 10-25 41st Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 784-7447, ext. 129
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above during the hours of operation. New clients will only be seen by appointment.

Make the Road New York

• Brooklyn
• Address: 301 Grove Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 418-7690
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above.
• Queens
• Address: 92-10 Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 565-8500
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above.
• Staten Island
• Address: 161 Port Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10302
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 727-1222
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above.

MinKwon Center for Community Action

• Address: 133-29 41st Avenue, Suite 202, Flushing, NY 11355
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 460-5600
• Language(s) Spoken: Korean, Spanish, Mandarin
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above or email immigration@minkwon.org.

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation

• Address
• Bronx: 8 Clinton Place, Bronx, NY 10453
• Manhattan: 45 Wadsworth Avenue, New York, NY 10033
• Hours of Operation: Wednesdays, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Phone Number: (929) 512-4496
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish, French
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above during the hours of operation to speak with an ActionNYC navigator. New clients will not be received via walk-in or through the website.

Sunnyside Community Services

• Address: 43-31 39th Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (718) 784-6173, ext. 513
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please call the phone number above.

Hospitals

New York Legal Assistance Group is a partner that works with the New York City’s hospital systems. More information about this agency will be provided soon.

Libraries

Immigrant Justice Corps is a partner that works with the New York City’s library systems. To learn more about where they can get legal services, reach out to the organization below.

Immigrant Justice Corps

• Address: 17 Battery place, Suite 331, New York, NY 10004
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
• Phone Number: (212) 407-3417
• Language(s) Spoken: English, Spanish
• Referral / Intake: Please reach out to Supervising Accredited Representative Geovanny Gutierrez Vivar at ggutierrez@justicecorps.org with referrals, and please cc Lauren Migliaccio at lmigliaccio@justicecorps.org.

Schools

Catholic Charities Community Services

• Address: 80 Maiden Lane, 13th Floor, Manhattan, NY 10038
• Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Phone Number: (646) 794-3719
• Language(s) Spoken: Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Albanian
• Referral / Intake: Callers will be pre-screened to triage to the appropriate program if they are qualified.

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