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This section is meant to work as a digital resource center, a place where you can find information
​on offices that provide
​
Legal Aid 
Some offices include immigration matters in the list of services they provide. Others don't. Please see the individual listings.
​In case of an immigration detention or if you witness one:  call the TCIRC  Hotline
Resources to do with the rescission of DACA follow the listing
Legal Aid Offices that Include Immigration Matters in their Services
Do you know of a resource that you think should be listed here?
Let us know at lcaoftompkinscounty@gmail.com

Si es ​detenido por agentes de Migración o atestigua un arresto migratorio, llame a la ​Línea Directa de la Red de Respuesta Rápida de la Coalición pro Derechos de los Migrantes del Condado de Tompkins:
If you are stopped by Immigration officials or are witness to an immigration arrest, call the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition Rapid Response Network Hotline:

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Legal Aid Offices that Include Immigration Matters in their Services:
In Tompkins County
In Other Counties in Upstate NY
In Tompkins County
Farmworker Legal Assistance
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-4196

The Cornell Law School Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic provides free legal services to upstate New York farmworkers in deportation defense and employment litigation matters. Because we are a teaching clinic, our caseload is intentionally very low. ​To contact the Clinic, call 607-255-4196.
Catholic Charities Tompkins/Tioga
324 W. Buffalo St
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-272-5062
The Immigrant Services Program (ISP) of Catholic Charities Tompkins/Tioga assists and advocates for immigrants to attain family unity, economic independence and social integration.
Their services include Legal Immigration Services as well as Support Services.
In Other Counties in Upstate NY
Note: Some offices indicate what counties they serve. If you contact one that doesn't, make sure you let them know the county where you are located.
 ​Binghamton American Civic Association 
131 Front Street
Binghamton, NY 13905
607-723-9419
Services include:
  • Assistance in maneuvering through the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) forms and procedures
  • Affidavits Support
  • Naturalization Assistance
  • Petitions for Alien Relatives
  • Fiancé(e) Petitions
  • Permanent Resident (green card) issues & Reentry Permits
  • Consul & Visa information
  • USCIS and US Passport and Photos
  • Foreign Pension Assistance
  • Translation and Interpreter Assistance

Catholic Charities of Albany
40 N. Main Avenue
Albany, NY 12203
518-453-6650
Serves residents of the following New York State Counties: Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Columbia, Greene, Herkimer, Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Warren, Washington, Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie.
Immigration Legal Services for low-income qualified individuals include:
Consultation, counseling, and preparation of petitions and applications for, among other benefits, lawful permanent residency and U.S. citizenship.
​By appointment only.

Catholic Charities of Onondaga County
1654 West Onondaga Street
Syracuse NY 13204
315-424-1800
Serves residents of Onondaga County​.
Services:
  • Programs focus on children and families, at-risk youth, refugees, the homeless, those in need of emergency assistance, and the elderly, as well as disadvantaged, addicted, and/or developmentally disabled individuals.
  • There are more than 25 programs available throughout Onondaga County. Catholic Charities is dedicated to providing services at the agency level, the neighborhood level, and the home-based level.
  • Assistance is available for citizenship applications, green card applications, fee waivers, and family reunification forms.  Please email
    ​cholmes@ccoc.us for information.

Catholic Family Center, Rochester
87 N. Clinton Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
585-546-7220
cfc@cfcrochester.org
Services include:
  • Refugee Resettlement Services
  • ​Immigration Assistance
  • Refugee Employment Services​

​Erie County Bar Association Volunter Lawyers Project, Inc.
237 Main Street, Suite 1000
Buffalo, NY 14203
716-847-0662
By appointment only.
​Services include:
  • Immigration
    • Legal orientation
    • Family unity
    • Unaccompanied children
    • Domestic violence and Human trafficking 
  • Bankruptcy and debt
  • Divorce
  • Estates and wills
  • Family law
  • Legal Services for Positive Families and Individuals
  • Tax Foreclosure
  • Taxpayer clinics
  • Tort defense
  • Unemployment benefits
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Hiscock Legal Aid Society
351 South Warren Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
Phone: 315.422.8191
Fax:  315.472-2819
mail@hiscocklegalaid.org
The Hiscock Legal Aid Society is part of the Upstate NY Immigration Law Project in collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of Rochester and the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY. The Project in Syracuse provides immigration-related legal assistance to people in a 17-county region of Upstate New York.   Such assistance can include advice, representation and/or referral on a variety of matters, including naturalization/citizenship, family-based immigration, adjustment of status, consular processing, asylum, temporary protected status, deferred action (DACA), NACARA, special immigrant juvenile status, T-visas (trafficking victims), U- visas (crime victims), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions, and employment authorization.

Volunteer Legal Service Project of Monroe County
Telesca Center for Justice
1 West Main St., 5th Floor
Rochester, NY 14614
Phone: (585) 232-3051
Fax: (585) 232-5103
Services include:
  • Child Custody / Visitation
  • Divorce
  • Debt Collection Advice / Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
  • Employment
  • Child Support
  • Consumer Issues
  • Standby Guardianship
  • Unemployment Insurance
  • Tax Issues 
Other Areas Where VLSP Can Help
  • Adoption
  • Landlord-Tenant
  • Pension
  • Real Estate
  • Tort Defense - for defendants only
  • Estate administration (estates of limited value)
  • Wills, powers of attorney and health care proxies for people with HIV/AIDS or serious illnesses
  • Micro-Entrepreneur Pro Bono Program (MPBP) 
  • Not For Profit Pro Bono Program (NFPPB)
  • Immigration: VLSP helps unite and keep together families of U.S. citizens and permanent residents by obtaining immigration status for their family members.
VLSP does NOT handle: Criminal matters or fee generating cases; for example, suing for personal injury.​​
The Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York
Serving Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego and Otsego and farmworkers anywhere in New York State.
For a listing of each county office, see below.
Services include:
  • Elder Law
  • Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
  • Disability Advocacy
  • Foreclosure Help
  • Farmworkers
    • Wage claims
    • Workplace health and safety
    • Substandard housing conditions
    • Immigration matters
    • Trafficking in persons
    • Discrimination on the basis of
      • national origin (including not hiring or firing a worker based on his/her appearance, accent or place of birth)
      • citizenship status (for example, having a "citizen-only" hiring practice)
      • of documentation of work authorization on the I-9 form (this is called "document abuse" and includes demanding more or different documentation than what is required by the I-9 legal process)
      • by act or threat of retaliation (including firing or discriminating against workers who assert their rights as legal workers)            
                               Binghamton Office
                                           168 Water Street
      
                                     Second Floor
      
                                     Binghamton, New York 13901
      
                                     Phone: (607) 231-5900
      
                                     Fax: (607) 724-7211
      
                                     Serves: Broome County
                               Cortland Office
                                           111 Port Watson Street
      
                                     Cortland, New York 13045
  
                                        Phone: (607) 428-8400
  
                                        Fax: (607) 753-7257
   
                                       Serves: Cortland County
                               Oneonta Office
                                           P.O. Box 887
   
                                       Oneonta, New York 13820
      
                                     Phone: (607) 433-2220
      
                                     Fax: (607) 433-1433
      
                                     Serves: Delaware and Otsego Counties
     
                                      (Hours: By appointment only.)
                               Oswego Office
                                           108 West Bridge Street
    
                                      Oswego, New York 13126
      
                                     Phone: (315) 532-6900
      
                                     Fax: (315) 342-1891
      
                                     Serves: Oswego County
                               Otsego County Office
                                           Meadows Office Complex, Suite 6
      
                                     140 County Highway 33 West
      
                                     Cooperstown, New York 13326
      
                                     Phone: (607) 286-4044 (or 4045)
      
                                     Fax: (607) 286-4048
      
                                     Serves: Otsego County
      
                                     (Hours: By appointment only.)
                               Syracuse Office
                                           221 South Warren Street, Suite 310
      
                                     Syracuse, New York 13202
      
                                     Phone: (315) 703-6600
      
                                     Fax: (315) 424-4911
     
                                     Serves: Cayuga and Onondaga Counties
                               Utica Office
                                           268 Genesee Street
      
                                     Utica, New York 13502
      
                                     Phone: (315) 793-7000
      
                                     Fax: (315) 732-3202
      
                                     Serves: Herkimer, Lewis, Madison and
                                           Oneida Counties
                               Watertown Office
                                           215 Washington Street
      
                                     Suite 202
      
                                     Watertown, New York 13601
      
                                     Phone: (315) 955-6700
      
                                     Fax: (315) 785-9118
      
                                     Serves: Jefferson and Lewis Counties
                               Farmworker Law Project Office
                               Serves all counties in NYS.
​                                  Call toll-free:
                                  From the United States (800) 804-8575
                                  From Jamaica    (800) 248-2429
                                  From Mexico     001-877-248-2429
                                  52 South Manheim Blvd.
                                  New Paltz, New York 12561
                                  Phone: (845) 256-9096 or (800) 804-8575
                                  ​Fax: (845) 256-0494

​Legal Aid Society of Rochester
1 W. Main Street, Suite 800
Rochester, NY 14614
585-232-4090
Fax: (585) 232-2352
Services include:
  • Family Law Programs
    • Domestic Violence
    • Divorce and Custody
    • Child Support
    • Limited Means
  • Housing Programs
    • Home Ownership Initiative
    • Foreclosure Prevention
    • Tenant Advocacy
    • Wills and Advance Directives
  • Immigration Program
    • Asylum Applications
    • Removal
    • Defense
    • Adjustment of Status
    • Family Based Immigration Matters
  • Attorney for the Child Program
  • Education Law Program 
    • Committee on Special Education
    • Suspension matters
Oswego County Board of Cooperative Educational Services
129 County Route 64
Mexico, NY 13114
pgugel@oswegoboces.org
718-389-7580
Naturalization/citizenship support services to migrant farmworkers who are eligible for services through BOCES' regional Migrant Education Tutorial and Support Services, as well as for students in BOCES' ESL classes.
DACA
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The Legal Resource Center has prepared a community advisory that lays out what the Administration's decision of September 5, 2017, to phase out and eventually end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) over two and half years means for DACA recipients, those with pending applications, those who need to renew their DACA, and more. ​See the advisory in English.
El Legal Resource Center ha preparado un documento que explica lo que significa para quienes recibieron el estatus DACA la decision del Gobierno Federal del 5 de septiembre de 2017 de descontinuar gradualmente y al final de dos años y medio terminar el programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés). El documento cubre los casos de quienes tienen solicitudes pendientes, quienes necesitan renovar su estatus y otros.  Ver el documento en español.
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National Immigration Law Center DACA page. Includes 
DACA Under the Trump Administration
Top 5 Things to Know About the Announcement That DACA Is Being Ended (Sept. 5, 2017)
Frequently Asked Questions on DACA Termination
About DACA and Employment (answers to frequently asked questions)
Side by Side: DACA and Related 2017 Legislation (table)
Side by Side: Provisions of 2010 and 2017 Dream Acts and DACA (table)
New Questions and Answers About DACA Now That Trump Is President
Potential Scenarios: Legal Threats to DACA
#Defend DACA: Stories in Defense of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
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The impact of Trump's administration's decision to terminate DACA, from Ithaca based law firm Miller Mayer's immigration practice group  
Factsheet with key information on the DACA termination (in English).
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El impacto de la decisión del gobierno de Trump de terminar DACA, por el grupo de abogados migratorios del despacho Miller Mayer (en inglés).
​Ficha con información básica sobre la rescisión de DACA (en español)
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Video of a panel at Cornell Law School analyzing President Trump’s immigration executive actions (Sept. 8, 2017). The panelists were three eminent constitutional law scholars: Michael Dorf from Cornell, Ilya Somin from George Mason University, and Eric Posner from the University of Chicago. The moderator was immigration law attorney and Cornell Law School professor Steve Yale-Loehr, The panel discussed both the travel ban and DACA rescission litigation and the Ninth Circuit’s decision of 09/07/2017.  It also provides a good primer on plenary power and executive power generally. The panel discussion begins at about minute 6:30, after the introduction by Cornell Law School Dean Eduardo Penalver.
Legal Aid Offices that Do Not Include Immigration Matters in their Services:
Syracuse University Office of Clinical Legal Education
The Office of Clinical Legal Education provides representation to individuals and groups in Syracuse and neighboring communities who cannot afford private attorneys or who cannot obtain other available legal assistance.
Appointments necessary
8:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday

(315) 443-4582
(888) 797-5291
Areas of law served:

Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic
Disability Rights Clinic
Elder Law Clinic
Low Income Tax Clinic
Securities Arbitration Clinic
Veterans Legal Clinic
All inquiries should be directed to our main number at 315-443-4582.
Please note that:
  • Criminal cases are assigned to our Clinic by the court and are not open through other referrals. 
  • For from the Community Development Law Clinic, please call our office for the Clinic director's e-mail. 
  • ​Individuals in need of bankruptcy assistance should contact Legal Aid of Mid-New York at (877) 777-6152 for eligibility screening.
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P. O. Box 6235
Ithaca, NY 14851
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