University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Resources

Eligibility: Enrolled UMN Twin Cities students paying the Student Services Fee.  They might decline some legal matters if Minnesota courts do not have authority (or jurisdiction).

Website
Email
Telephone: 612-624-1001
Location: 160 West Bank Skyway

Services:

• Legal services and education to UMN Twin Cities students

Immigration services include:

• Questions about alternatives to a student visa;
• Interpretations or explanations of visa terms and conditions;
• Concerns about possible violations of visa requirements; 
• Family or marriage-based adjustments to immigration status;
• Changing your status from one non-immigrant visa to another non-immigrant status;
• Representations for problems or encounters with U.S. legal immigration agencies;
• Refer questions about your visa or endorsements for travel or employment-related to your student visa status to International Student and Scholar Services.

Additional Services:

• Landlord-tenant legal issues;
• Criminal law;
• Personal and family law;
• Power of Attorney and Notary Public services.

Eligibility: UMN international students, scholars, and employees. Located on the UMN-TC campus but many services extend to all UMN campuses.

Website
Email
Telephone: 612-626-7100
Location: 190 Hubert H. Humphrey School

Services:

• Advisors and counselors provide information about non-immigrant visa issues for students and scholars holding F, J, H and O visas;
• Advising and counseling services;
• Assist university departments to bring new foreign nationals to UMN-TC;
• Provide intercultural training for students, staff, and faculty;
• Host events to build connections between the U.S. and international communities on campus.

Eligibility: Low-income Minnesotans in central Minnesota, including Hennepin County; including immigrants.

Website
Telephone: 612-334-5970
Location: 111 N. Fifth St., Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55403

Services:

• Immigration services include Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), employment authorization, citizenship, and assistance to victims of violence, refugees and asylees with status adjustment, family reunification petitions and work authorization petitions.

Eligibility: Serves low-income people in Minnesota. Call the in-take line or complete the online intake form to see if you qualify.

Website and Intake Information
Email
Client In-take Line: 612-752-6677

Services:

• Volunteer lawyers provide legal services in most types of civil issues, such as housing, bankruptcy, family, criminal expungement and debt collection.

Eligibility: Immigrant and refugee families whose household income is 187.5 percent below federal poverty guidelines.

Website
Email
Telephone: 651-641-1011
Client Line: 1-800-223-1368
Location: 450 North Syndicate Street, Suite 200, St. Paul, MN 55104 Also has legal staff in Worthington, Austin and Moorhead.

Services:

• Provides free brief legal advice and full representation to immigrants and refugees in Minnesota with immigration-related cases.

Eligibility: Represents asylum seekers

Website
Email
Telephone: 612-341-3302
Immigrant Client Line: 612-341-9845
Location: 330 Second Avenue South, Suite 800, Minneapolis, MN 55401

Services:

• Partners pro bono attorneys with local immigration law experts to deliver client-centered legal case management for asylum seekers;
• Advocates for U.S. immigration policies that respect human rights and monitors U.S. compliance with international human rights obligations;
• Works to combat anti-immigrant sentiment through public outreach and education.

An online resource to help people of low and moderate incomes find free legal aid programs in their communities and answer questions about legal rights and forms. Information is specific to Minnesota and offered in several different languages. Review the section on immigration and immigrants.