Immigration Rights

" My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." (President Barack Obama, 2014) 

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East Bay Area Resources

• East Bay Community Law Center
  • Location: 2921 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703
  • Phone: (510) 548-4040, Email: info@ebclc.org
  • Services Offered: Small Business and Nonprofit, Criminal Records, Personal Debt, Housing, Immigration, Homelessness, Youth Justice and Education
• Center for Empowering Refugees & Immigrants
  • Location: 554 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA 94610
  • Phone: (510) 444-1671, Email: info@cerieastbay.org
  • Services Offered: culturally sensitive bilingual services that support refugees' and immigrants' mental health and well-being.
• East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
  • Location: 2614 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
  • Email: info@eastbaysanctuary.org
  • Paralegal Hotline: 510-646-8484   Monday-Friday: 10 am-12 pm
  • Phone General Inquiries: 510-540-5296
  • Services Offered: Immigration, DACA, Community education, LGBTQ Sanctuary
• Jewish Family & Community Services
  • Location: Alameda County Office 2484 Shattuck Avenue, Ste. 210, Berkeley, CA 94704
  • Phone: 925-927-2000 Email: info@jfcs-eastbay.org
  • Services Offered: Refugee Services, Immigration, Older Adults and Aging, Children Youth and Family.
• Catholic Charities of the East Bay - Immigration Project (Oakland)
  • Location: 433 Jefferson St, Oakland, CA 94607
  • Phone: (510) 768-3100 Email: info@cceb.org and immreform@cceb.org
  • Services Offered: Immigration Legal Services, Mental Health and Violence Protection, Family Preservation, and Disaster Relief.
• Legal Assistance for Seniors
  • Location: 333 Hegenberger Rd #850 Oakland, CA 94621 USA
  • Phone: (510) 832-3040 Email: las@lashicap.org
  • Services Provided: Elder Law, Health Care Law, Immigration Law
• Immigration Institute of the Bay Area
  • Location: 476 3rd Street, Oakland, CA 94607
  • Phone: (510) 451-2846 ext. 301 Email: oakphones@iibayarea.org
  • Services Provided: Immigration, Crime Victim, Deportation Defense.
• Centro Legal De La Raza
  • Location: 3400 E. 12th Street Oakland CA 94601
  • Phone: 510-437-1554 Email: info@centrolegal.org
  • Services Offered: Immigration, Tenants, Workers’, and Litigation.
• Bay Area Legal Aid
  • Location: 1735 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94612
  • Phone: 510-663-4755, Legal Aid Line: 800-551-5554
  • Services Offered: Immigration, Domestic Violence, Reentry, Housing, SSI/Disability
• Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
  • Location: 310 8th Street, Suite 305, Oakland CA 94607
  • Phone: (510) 251-2846
  • Services Offered: Immigration, Housing, Anti-Human Trafficking, Elder
• Filipino Advocates for Justice
  • Location: 310 8th St # 309, Oakland, CA 94607
  • Phone: (510) 465-9876 Email: info@filipinos4justice.org
  • Services Offered: Immigration and Naturalization Greater San Francisco Bay Area

• ACLU NorCal
  • Location: 39 Drumm Street, San Francisco, California 94111
  • Phone: (415) 621-2493, Email Form: https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/get-help
  • Know Your Rights: https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights
• Social Justice Collaborative
  • Location: 1832 Second Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710
  • Phone: (510) 992-3964 Email: office@socialjusticecollaborative.org
  • Services Offered: Deportation Defense, Unaccompanied Minor Defense, Pro-Bono
• Arab Resource and Organizing Center
  • Location: 522 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
  • Phone: (415) 861-7444 Email: info@araborganizing.org
  • Services Offered: Legal Services, Immigration, Youth Organizing
• Siren Immigration Rights
  • Location: 1769 Park Ave., Suite 200 San Jose, CA 95126
  • Phone: (408) 453-3003 Email: Info@sirenimmigrantrights.org
  • Services Offered: Immigration Legal Services, Civic Engagement, DACA/Work Authorization Citizenship, DACA renewals, citizenship, Green Card renewals, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, U Visa, refugee/asylum assistance.
• Carecen SF 
  • Location: 3101 Mission Street Suite 101 San Francisco, CA 94110
  • Phone: (415) 642-4400 Email Form: https://carecensf.org/about-us/contact-us/
  • Services Offered: Immigration, Second Chance Youth Program, Family Wellness, Health Promotion, DACA, TPS, Know Your Rights.
• Asian Law Caucus
  • Location: 55 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94111
  • Phone: (415) 896-1701 Email Form: https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/get-help
  • Services Offered (Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Spanish, Vietnamese, Urdu): Immigration, Housing, Workers’ Rights, Civil Rights.
• Legal Aid at Work
  • Location: 180 Montgomery St, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94104
  • Phone: 415-864-8848
  • Services Offered: Immigration, Workers’ Rights, Disability

Bay Area Rapid Response Networks

Immigration rapid response programs are community-based networks which help people during immigration enforcement actions such as raids and detentions. These programs may include hotlines, legal observers, and legal defense.

• Stand Together Contra Costa Hotline: (925) 900-5151 
• San Francisco Rapid Response Network Hotline: (415) 200-1548 
• Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network Hotline: (408) 290-1144 
• North Bay Rapid Response Network Hotline: (707) 800-4544 
• Other California Networks provided by the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

• Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Know Your Rights Toolkit
• We Have Rights: An empowerment campaign to prepare for and safely defend our rights during encounters with ICE. Includes videos for ice encounters and how to make an emergency plan.
• Immigration Advocates Network: Legal services directory for free or low-cost legal assistance
• Immigrant Defense Project: Providing toolkits and community legal resources to immigrants

Adapted from California Assembly District 18 Immigration Resources