HIAS Pennsylvania

Immigration legal services - Hias pa continues to serve vulnerable immigrant populations. We provide legal services through our seven programs: 1) immigrant youth advocacy 2) immigrant survivors of domestic violence 3) immigrant victims of crime 4) asylum and removal defense 5) asylee outreach 6) citizenship and family re-unification; and 7) crisis and humanitarian response. We also provide legal services through pro bono attorneys that we recruited, trained and mentored. We were able to serve 3,382 new clients in the legal department while continuing to serve clients whose cases have not yet been resolved because of the enormous backlogs at the federal agency level.

Our social services division consists of four permanent programs and two temporary pilot programs that were created to address the crises in haiti and afghanistan: 1) refugee resettlement, 2) health and wellness 3) employment and 4) education. 5) the haitian emergency relief program and 6) the afghan community resettlement program. In addition, three of our legal programs, immigrant survivors of domestic violence, immigrant victims of crime and the asylee outreach program have case managers embedded within them that provide social services to the clients enrolled in those programs. We served a total of 390 new clients with social services as well as continuing to serve those clients who we began serving in earlier years but who have had on-going concerns.