Immigration Legal Services
El Concilio California has been a leading provider of free and low-cost bilingual citizenship preparation and immigration legal services since 1968, offering comprehensive assistance for naturalization applications, legal permanent resident status, renewals, eligibility screenings, and more.
- Protective & Legal Services
- Immigration & Naturalization Legal Services
Trusted immigration guidance and pathways to lawful status.
Our Immigration Legal Services team assists immigrants, refugees, Dreamers, and victims of domestic violence, ensuring access to vital services and pathways to citizenship. Led by experienced immigration attorneys and supported by immigration paralegals, services include citizenship, permanent residency, DACA, family petitions, green card petitions and renewals, and more.
Our programs focus on immigrant integration and empowerment, promoting self-sufficiency, safety, and stability in low-income immigrant communities.
Services include
- Citizenship & naturalization assistance
- Legal permanent resident status & renewals
- Eligibility screenings
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Family petitions
- Green card petitions & renewals
Immigration Legal Services
Legal services, education and immigration relief options.
Citizenship & Residency
For more information about Immigration & Naturalization Legal Services, eligibility, or to schedule an appointment, call (209) 337-7505.
Legal services, education and immigration relief options.
Select a service below to learn more about the immigration legal assistance available through El Concilio California.
Asylum for Unaccompanied Children
Asylum helps individuals who come to the United States seeking protection because they have suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution in their home country due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Deferred Action is temporary relief from deportation or removal action for eligible immigrant youth. This policy is not a permanent fix and does not grant permanent legal status.
Immigration Court Help Desk (ICH)
The Immigration Court Help Desk is a court-based legal education program for non-detained noncitizens in immigration court proceedings in San Francisco.
Legal Orientation Program for Custodians (LOPC)
We provide legal orientations for custodians of unaccompanied children who are released from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody.
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status is a federal immigration classification that may help certain undocumented children obtain lawful permanent residence.
U and T Visas
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
VAWA provides certain abused non-citizens with special routes to immigration status when eligibility requirements are met.