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| Last updated on February 22, 2008 |
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) promotes justice for low-income immigrants by pursuing and defending their legal status. We focus on providing direct legal services, supported by our education and public policy work.
Description:
NWIRP is the only organization in Washington and the Northwest region providing comprehensive immigration legal services to low income immigrants and refugees. NIWRP currently has 40 staff and a number of law students and other volunteers, including pro bono panels of approximately 150 attorneys. We currently offer information, advice, assisted pro se, and representation in the areas of asylum, removal defense, family visa, citizenship disability waivers, NACARA, VAWA self petitions, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and general unaccompanied minor work, and human trafficking. In addition, for several years, NWIRP has had a detention project that provides Know Your Rights presentations and brief legal counsel and screening to immigrants detained in the region's largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Northwest.
History:
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) was founded in 1984. It began as a pro bono project providing Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees fleeing civil wars in their countries representation in bond hearings and asylum applications. In 1989 and 1991, NWIRP merged with several other small, single focus immigration projects and became a broad based immigration legal services program. In 1998, NWIRP added an office in rural Eastern Washington.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (206) 587-4025
Address:
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615 2nd Ave Ste 400
Seattle, WA 98104-2244
This location is handicap accessible
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Web Site: http://www.nwirp.org
Directions:
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We are located at the corner of 2nd & Cherry. |
Miscellaneous Information
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