Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (iiba) continued to build our capacity to provide Immigration legal services with a focus on expanding our services in more rural areas where access to Immigration legal services is limited or non-existent. Iiba is the largest nonprofit provider of Immigration legal services in northern California with 7 offices in 6 counties and a staff of 68.this past year, iiba filed 3306 affirmative cases, provided 5646 legal consultations, and outreached to nearly 10,000 individuals. We helped 716 individuals petition for u.s. Citizenship and 917 individuals renew their daca applications. We continue to work with clients in removal proceedings and helped 243 survivors of domestic violence and violent crime file for legal protection. We have a 98% client satisfaction rating from our clients and a 99% approval rate for applications submitted to the united states citizenship and Immigration services (uscis). 72% of our staff are bilingual in english and spanish, and 12 staff offer additional language diversity including mandarin, cantonese, vietnamese, burmese, pashto, urdu, hindi, punjabi, german, french, portuguese, and italian. We increased our pro bono partnerships by holding 28 virtual pro bono clinics in which we served 450 clients. 499 pro bono lawyers participated in the clinics.iiba serves as a program administrator for the California department of social services (cdss). Our role is to administer funding for client filing fees for 12 other nonprofit organizations in addition to iiba's clients. Iiba wrote checks on behalf of 1641 daca applicants for a total savings to clients of $812,295. For aspiring citizens, iiba administered $413,915 for 574 applicants.