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Northeast New Jersey Legal Services (Passaic County Office)

  • Location:
    152 Market Street
    6th Floor
    Paterson, NJ 07505
  • Phone:
    (973) 523-2900
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Phone calls, Website
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Northeast New Jersey Legal Services (NNJLS) provides free legal representation to eligible low-income, disabled, and senior residents of Bergen, Hudson and Passaic Counties. Every year thousands of local residents who have legal problems and cannot afford an attorney come to NNJLS for help with housing, consumer, family, public benefits, and immigration problems. NNJLS' attorneys provide the legal assistance residents need to keep themselves and their families safe and financially secure.

Counties served: Bergen, Hudson, Passaic

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Federal court appeals
Other areas of legal assistance: Consumer, Debt/Credit/Bankruptcy, Disability, Disaster and Crisis Assistance, Elder Law, Family & Juvenile, Foreclosure, Health, HIV/AIDS, Homeless, Housing, Public Benefits, Taxes, Veterans
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status
Languages spoken: English
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? No