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California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (Salinas Office)
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California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. provides legal advice and advocacy to low-income residents of California. CRLA immigration services are limited to U and T Visas in cases related to our other work.
CRLA provides representation and advice in matters of:
Employment (employment discrimination, harassment, wage claims, retaliation)
Housing (eviction notices, rent increases, habitability, retaliation, discrimination and harassment)
Education (discipline -- expulsion and suspensions, language access, access to services) and Public benefits (CalFresh, General Assistance, Social Security overpayments and terminations, TANF, Welfare-to-Work)
| Counties served: | Monterey |
Services Provided
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: | T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions |
| Types of immigration legal services provided: | Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS |
| Other areas of legal assistance: | Civil Rights, Disaster and Crisis Assistance, Education, Employment, Environmental, Foreclosure, Homeless, Housing, Public Benefits |
| Non-legal services: | Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Referrals to other services |
| Populations served: | Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender |
| Languages spoken: | Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Levantine), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese Chinese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Fuganese, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kashmir, Kazakh, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay-Indonesian, Malayalam, Mandarin Chinese, Marshallese, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Signers for the deaf: CDI, Signers for the deaf: Other, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Wu, Yiddish, Yoruba, Triqui, Mextico Bajo, Mextico Alto, other indiginous languages |
| Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: | Yes |
| Nominal fee charged? | No |
| Other information: | Services are subject to LSC funding restrictions. |
Volunteering
| Volunteer Coordinator |