Hochul pledges $3 million to provide legal assistance for New York City immigrants - AMNY

Three caller ineligible work grants are present disposable for New York’s migrant community.

On Nov. 30, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that a full of $3 cardinal volition beryllium administered implicit 3 years by the New York State Office for New Americans (ONA) to supply immigrants arriving successful New York City with escaped immigration-related ineligible services and assistance with captious exertion filings and required appearances. The inaugural aims to assistance thousands of immigrants who person arrived successful New York City this year.

The announcement builds upon Governor Hochul’s committedness to helping incoming immigrants with accrued funding, with the ONA presently providing $13 cardinal successful yearly backing for community-based nonprofit providers to springiness escaped ineligible assistance to immigrants successful need.

“New York State has ever been a beacon of hope, welcoming recently arrived immigrants with the committedness of opportunity,” Governor Hochul said. “By providing them with the ineligible tools and resources they request to thrive, New York State volition proceed to uplift those who are trying to physique amended lives for themselves and their families.”

ONA volition instantly dedicate $3,000,000 successful caller assistance backing implicit a three-year play for the proviso of specified escaped migrant ineligible services done Catholic Charities Community Services (CCCS), Archdiocese of New York, New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) and Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative (I-ARC). These providers already run wrong ONA’s web of nonprofits and person been providing their expertise to immigrants that arrived successful New York City. 

With these caller grants, ONA volition beryllium capable to grow upon its existing contracts and physique its capableness to enactment ongoing services, including ensuring that the ineligible needs of caller arrivals are urgently addressed and supported passim the migration process. These resources volition assistance much immigrants implicit asylum applications and different immigration-related ineligible matters rapidly and efficiently, including providing practice to caller arrivals. Through CCCS and NYLAG, recently arrived immigrants tin entree escaped ineligible services including but not limited to: change of address; alteration of venue; asylum applications; assistance with their employment authorization papers (EAD); and deportation defense.

Additionally, this caller inaugural volition boost the coordination and grooming efforts of I-ARC portion besides helping CCCS enlistee enactment unpaid pro bono attorneys to supply further capableness and ineligible assistance to caller arrivals successful summation to non-legal services.

As it presently stands, erstwhile an asylum exertion is filed with the national government, the applicant is not eligible for employment authorization until their asylum exertion has been pending for 180 days. An asylum applicant whitethorn use for their employment authorization papers 150 days aft filing their asylum exertion successful an effort to let for the anticipation of receiving employment authorization support astatine the 180-day mark. Once they person their EAD approval, they volition beryllium allowed to question employment to enactment themselves and their families.

“The information and well-being of migrants coming to our authorities is simply a precedence arsenic individuals and families find themselves successful unfamiliar territory trying to acclimate to an wholly caller world,” New York Secretary of State Robert J. Rodriguez said. “This further backing for ineligible services volition assistance our partners successful helping the incoming migrant colonisation recognize and navigate the assorted authorities programs aimed astatine helping them. New York has ever been a welcoming spot for radical from each implicit the world. It’s what makes our authorities specified a vibrant and taste spot to be.”

“There’s ne'er been a greater request for migrant ineligible services successful New York. As caller Americans get successful our large State from each implicit the world, New York continues to beryllium a beacon of anticipation and humanity,” said Assemblymember Catalina Cruz. “I americium thrilled astatine the Governor’s committedness of an further 3 cardinal dollars to assistance code the already existing backlog of cases and assistance immigrants unafraid ineligible services truthful that they tin proceed to telephone New York home.”

To entree these services, individuals tin telephone the New Americans Hotline astatine 1-800-566-7636 to beryllium referred to their nearest ineligible supplier oregon ineligible clinic. The New Americans Hotline operates from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday done Friday. All calls are confidential. Assistance is disposable successful implicit 200 languages. 

For much information, visit dos.ny.gov/office-new-americans oregon travel ONA connected Twitter astatine @NYSNewAmericans oregon Facebook at www.facebook.com/NYSNewAmericans.