WRC’s Immigrant Legal Services (ILS) provides affordable immigration-related legal assistance and representation to low income immigrants and refugees in the Chicago metropolitan area. All ILS staff are bilingual in English and Spanish.

Confidential ILS services include:

• Consultations to determine eligibility for immigration benefits and naturalization
• Applications for U.S. citizenship
• Family-based petitions
• Applications for permanent residence for refugees, asylees, persons paroled in the public interest and immigrants in general.
• Applications for Work permits
• Applications for Travel Documents and Reentry Permits
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
• Applications for U-Visas and VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) Self Petitions. These services are provided on a limited basis
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
• Religious workers visas, on a limited bases. Other employment-based immigration services are not provided
• Referrals as appropriate