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We provide affordable and empathetic guidance to those seeking refuge and pursuing legal immigration status.
Thanks to generous donors, our rates are lower than anyone else in our community, for example, we can only charge $600 for a family-based visa petition versus $2000 what an immigration lawyer for similar services would charge.
LCSNW Immigration Facts
Our Safe Route team consists of attorneys, who are licensed to practice law in the US. Our immigration offices are accredited and recognized through the Department of Justice. Also, most of our immigration counselors are DOJ Accredited Representatives under the Department of Justice.)
Individuals Served in 2023
Number of Different Countries From Which We Have Assisted Immigrants
In 2023, we have served over 4,696 individuals. We have provided the following affirmative representation services to our clients:
- More than 135 Afghan asylum approvals
- Filed 503 Adjustment of Status applications (green card in the US)
- Filed 250 consular processing permanent residency applications (DS-260; green card from overseas)
- Filed 565 Naturalization applications
- Assisted with 337 DACA renewals,
- Filed 300 family-based petitions,
- 34 victim protection petitions,
- Applied for 385 Employment Authorization,
- 195 Temporary Protected Status petition,
- Filed 205 I-90 (Green Card renewal) cases
- Immigration assistance for 366 cases of (I-131, translations, notary, background checks, passport photos).
- Legal outreach events for 425 people
- Legal intake and consultations for 1,544 people
Last year, we defended over 50 immigrants in removal proceedings. For more than a decade, other than the recent collective efforts of Equity Corps of Oregon, LCSNW has provided more assistance and legal representation in removal proceedings than all other legal service providers in Oregon combined.
Over the past 10 years we have…
- served over 23,000 clients.
- assisted clients from 120 countries with complex immigration issues such as asylum.
- assisted and defended immigrants with criminal issues in 28 affirmative USCIS applications.
- helped 3 Christian churches and a local Portland mosque in obtaining proper R-1 religious visas for senior pastors and an Imam.
- obtained solutions through prosecutorial discretion for 65 immigrant families who had low likelihoods of winning asylum in Portland Immigration Court.
- had over 1,500 individuals participated in citizenship programs.
Funding Facts: your donation of this amount can do this work.
We are able to keep our fees the lowest in the communities we serve due to donations from supporters like you.
- $50 can keep all of our immigration classes free for any community member who wants to join and pursue citizenship.
- $250 can help a local worker start their path toward a green card.
- $1,500 can defray the cost of immigration support for a local DACA Dreamer.
- $5,000 can keep the costs within reach for local immigrant workers to reunite with their families across international borders. Allowing families to live together for the first time in years.
- $10,000 can help a multigenerational family stay intact and strong together.