immigration legal services
Guiding and welcoming hopeful citizens.
Catholic Charities of North Louisiana is the only nonprofit organization in North Louisiana addressing the need to provide education and legal assistance for low-income individuals eligible for legal status afforded to them by United States laws. We are the only organization in North Louisiana to offer services at nor or a low cost.
Our Method
- Our program is designed to advise and guide clients through the immigration process in an efficient, effective and professionally caring manner.
- We consider the client’s participation critical to successful immigration processing, and we involve our clients fully in their own individual matters. Our goal is to promote family unity and to allow newcomers to contribute to and fully participate in their new communities.
- We have multiple Spanish-speaking staff to assist clients and help ease communication barriers.
Our Services
Our services include assistance with the following applications:
- Citizenship
- Legal Permanent Residency
- Waivers
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
- Self-Petitions under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
- U-Visas for victims of crime
- Employment Authorization
If you have other needs or questions about our services, please call 318-865-0200.
Appointments
An appointment for a consultation will be scheduled once we have received a completed Pre-Screening Form and our $50.00 consultation service fee. Click the button below to access our form and then follow the instructions below.
Pre-Screening Forms can be emailed to bbianca@ccnla.org or mailed to our PO Box 5084, Shreveport, LA 71135.
Once the form is received, our office will contact you to make arrangements for paying the service fee and scheduling your appointment.
The following forms are requested (when able) to schedule an initial consultation.
- Copy of driver’s license, state ID, or national ID from another country
- Copy of biographic page of passport
- Copy of any document showing how you entered the United States
- Copy of any and all paperwork concerning your immigration status, including copies of any applications filed, pending, approved or denied in the past.
Additional documentation may be requested depending on the nature of one’s case.
Our Immigration Legal Services are funded in part by a grant from the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Since 2016, the Louisiana Bar Foundation has been one of the major funding source for Catholic Charities of North Louisiana’s Immigration Legal Services. The Louisiana Bar Foundation is the single statewide funder that is fully committed to ensuring that Louisiana’s civil justice system is accessible to all.
