Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR) works with over 6,000 families a year on issues such as immigration, citizenship, deportation and voter participation focusing on keeping families together, facilitating integration and building community power.

The Coalition Educates, Organizes and Defends the Immigrant Community.

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Immigration Services

Citizenship

Family Petitions

Adjustments of Status

Travel Permits

Work Authorization

Temporary Protected Status

Deportation

FREE Civics Classes

Voter Registration

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Highlight on Immigration Service: TPS

In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101-649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions. If you are a citizen of the following countries, you may be eligible to apply for TPS:

Burundi

El Salvador

Haiti (NEW)

Honduras

Nicaragua

Sierra Leone

Somaila

Sudan

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NMCIR Deportation Report

On Thursday, April 30th, 2009, NMCIR released a report entitled "Deportado, Dominicano, y Humano: The Realities of Dominican Deportations and Related Policy Recommendations" (downloadable PDF) in order to bring to light the experience of one of the largest immigrant groups in New York and the North East - Dominicans. This report compiles the socio-political realities of deportation and provides policy recommendations to the governments of the United States, New York, and the Dominican Republic on how to alleviate the destruction deportation has caused in our community. This report was produced in collaboration with the New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic and received media coverage from El Diario, NY1, and Telemundo.

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NMCIR Campaign to Expand Judicial Discretion in Immigration Court

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) bars immigration judges from taking into account case specific and extenuating circumstances (judicial discretion) when handing down rulings in cases involving legal permanent residents being charged of deportable crimes.

Through educational clinics, media outreach, and negotiations with government officials, NMCIR has been active in the fight to grant immigration judges the right to apply their professional judgment when handling deportation cases.

LET IMMIGRATION JUDGES JUDGE!

RESTORE JUDICIAL DISCRETION IN THE COURTS!

KEEP OUR FAMILIES UNITED!

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NMCIR Weekly Column in El Diario

Immigration in the news. Learn about relavent immigration issues in NMCIR's weekly question and answer column dedicated to all issues concerning immigration, written by NMCIR Executive Director Angela Fernandez Esq.

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The Fight to Save Jean Montrevil

Jean Montrevil, a Haitian national who immigrated to the United States legally in 1986, was arrested and put into deportation proceedings in December of 2009 for crimes that he committed 20 ago. He had already served 11 years for his crimes and is now a community leader and father of four American children.

Thanks to the combined efforts of NMCIR, memebrs of his church,and government officials, the deportation of Jean Montrevil was called off and he was spared the hardship of being separated from his family to return to Haiti, just a few days after the disastrous earthquake

Read about Jean's compelling story in the New York Times