ONA legal counsels will provide immigration legal services and direct representation to clients in immigration-related proceedings. Every ONA legal counsel will handle a caseload of up 20 clients at a time.
They will assist immigrants in the following cases and/or applications for:
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
- Asylum
- U visas
- T visas
- Temporary Protected Status
- Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
- Violence Against Women Act
- Removal proceedings, for those currently detained or not, including those with a prior order of removal
- Work permits
- Bond hearings
- Board of Immigration Appeals
- Federal litigation
- Advanced parole
- Family reunification
- Family-based immigration
- Complex naturalization
- Family guardianship
