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WHAT WE DO

The Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR), is a non-profit organization, NMCIR founded in 1982 to educate, defend and protect the rights of immigrants.  Recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals, NMCIR is committed to expanding access to legal immigration services, participating in policy making and community organizing.   

 Direct Legal Services

• NMCIR assists immigrants in the preparing applications to the Department of Homeland Security, including but not limited to the following:family-based petitions, permanent residency, work permits, and travel permits.   

• NMCIR is also working in collaboration with Alianza Dominican in assisting immigrant domestice violence survivors in the application of the VAWA (Violence agaist Women Act of 1996) Self-Petitions and U visas in order to gain legal status without the assistance of the batterer.

 Detention and Deporation

Since the 1996 Immigration Laws, there has been a steady increase of Dominicans, who families are based out of Washington Heights and the Bronx, who are being detained without legal representation and deported back to the Dominican Republic.  Immigration reports that between 2000-2002 over 10,500 Dominicans have been deported for both non-criminal and criminal activities.    

• Currently, NMCIR, in a collaboration with Columbia Law School and the Legal Aid Society, is working on bringing in immigration attorneys and legal interns to represent immigrants who are in immigration proceedings including but no limited to removal hearings and deportation proceedings with the final end of reunifying Dominican families. 

 Citizenship and Naturalization

Through a grant from the Hispanic Federation, NMCIR also offers participants free assistance in applying for citizenship and free citizenship classes.  In addition, the participant also receives follow-up assistance that is necessary to make the application for citizeship as smooth as possible.  These classes include seminar and workshops the process of citizenship, the operation of the local and federal government, and voting procedures.  Since January of 2004, four hundred (400) individuals have applied for citizenship though NMCIR.   

• In moving forward to fulfill the ever-increasing needs of the New York City immigrant community, NMCIR is looking towards 1) increasing the number of citizenship classes; 2) maintaining the free service of applying for citizenship and 3) to add English as a Second Language Classes.    

 Community Organizing and Advocacy

Through our active participation with the New York Immigration Coalition and other national and local immigrant groups, NMCIR addresses different immigration policies which adversely impact the immigrant community including extensive immigration reform which gives immigrants an opportunity to gain legal status.  This work is done through  community forums, and media outreach.  NMCIR will also be working on issues around civic participation, voting and domestic violence.   

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Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
665 West 182nd Street, 1st Floor, New York, New York 10033
Tel.: 212-781-0355 ext. 300 . E-Mail: info@nmcir.org