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Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

Organization Description

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights—formerly CAIR Coalition—strives to ensure equal justice for all immigrant adults and children at risk of detention and deportation in the Capital region area and beyond through direct legal representation, know your rights presentations, impact litigation, advocacy, and the enlistment and training of attorneys to defend immigrants.

Program Details

Detained Adult Program

Program Website: Detained Adult Program

Program Description:
The Detained Adult Program provides client-centered legal representation and trauma-sensitive support to adults detained by the government.
 
Legal Orientation
We offer legal information, intakes, brief legal advice, and pro bono counsel to people in detention.
 
Direct Representation
We provide free direct legal representation to immigrants who are detained and serve as court appointed attorneys for people living with mental or developmental health conditions.
 
Social Services
We connect clients with resources in their communities to holistically address their needs beyond the scope of their legal case.
 
Se habla español.
 

Online intake form URL: Get Help
Program uses Language Line (Y/N): No
Program staff provide services in other languages: Spanish
Eligibility-residence-county: Maryland and Virginia
Services
Immigration and Citizenship: Brief advice/Help with forms/Clinics, Limited representation, Full Representation
Se habla Español: Brief advice/Help with forms/Clinics

Detained Children's Program

Program Website: Detained Children's Program

Program Description:
Through free legal counsel, educational materials, and social services, our Children’s Program works with immigrant children detained by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at juvenile facilities in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
 
Legal Services
We offer free “Know Your Rights” presentations, legal consultations, court accompaniment, and more to children who are detained in local ORR facilities.
 
Direct Representation
We represent all children we meet at local shelters who stay in local programs, as well as those who are released from the local shelters who reunify locally in areas where we provide services
 
Social Services
We connect the children we represent and their caregivers with resources in their communities to holistically address their needs beyond the scope of their legal case.
 
Se habla español.

Online intake form URL: Get Help
Program uses Language Line (Y/N): No
Program staff provide services in other languages: Spanish
Eligibility-residence-county: Maryland and Virginia
Services
Immigration and Citizenship: Brief advice/Help with forms/Clinics, Limited representation, Full Representation
Se habla Español: Brief advice/Help with forms/Clinics
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