Immigration Counseling Service (Hood River Office)
Immigration Counseling Service (ICS) has been providing affordable immigration legal services to Oregon and Southwestern Washington immigrant communities for nearly 50 years. ICS has a regional office in Hood River to ensure that the Columbia River Gorge communities, as well as those in Eastern Oregon, such as Bend, Boardman, The Dalles, Hermiston, Madras, Milton-Freewater, Pendleton, Prineville, and Umatilla have access to quality, low-cost immigration legal services.
| State served: |
Oregon |
| Detention Facilities Served: |
Northern Oregon Correctional Facility (OR), Tacoma Northwest Detention Center (WA) |
Services Provided
| Areas of immigration legal assistance: |
Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions |
| Types of immigration legal services provided: |
Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS, Representation at Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews), Representation before the Immigration Court, Representation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) |
| Non-legal services: |
Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Office Of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-funded services for trafficking victims, Referrals to other services |
| Populations served: |
Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors |
| Languages spoken: |
Arabic, English, Spanish |
| Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: |
Yes |
| Nominal fee charged? |
Yes |