Catholic Migration Services Inc.

Catholic Migration Services (“CMS”) seeks to empower immigrant communities to assert their basic rights, and to access effective and culturally appropriate legal representation. Our mission is to serve low-income immigrants in Brooklyn and Queens, regardless of religion, national origin, or immigration status. Since 1971, Catholic Migration Services’ Immigration team has helped tens of thousands of immigrants adjust their immigration status, obtain asylum, become naturalized citizens, and receive other forms of immigration relief. Our Workers’ Rights Program has helped low-wage workers assert their rights in the workplace, recover unpaid wages, report unsafe and life-threatening conditions in the workplace, and fight discrimination in employment. Our Tenant Advocacy Program further provides low-income tenants with representation in eviction proceedings, holdovers, as well as assist them in obtaining much needed repairs, obtaining rent increase exemptions for seniors and the disabled, and fighting unlawful rent increases and overcharges.

Catholic Migration Services periodically seeks assistance from attorneys and firms providing pro bono representation on a range of immigration, landlord-tenant and employment disputes.