On Sunday October 20th over 40 parishioners at Holy Family-St. Thomas Aquinas attended an informational session on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the stall on immigration reform and the impact of recent reform in healthcare.
On Saturday October 19th Catholic Migration Services hosted a Citizenship Application Assistance Workshop at St.James Cathedral in downtown Brooklyn, Over 80 permanent residents worked with staff and volunteers to complete their citizenship applications. CMS is a part of The New
Wednesday October 16, 2013 Telemundo featured Catholic Migration Services in a live broadcast highlighting the upcoming Citizenship Application Assistance Workshop. On Saturday October 19th CMS will be hosting a Citizenship Application Assistance Workshop at St. James Cathedral in downtown Brooklyn.
On Wednesday October 9th Frederik Stefani, Immigration Operations Manager and Rebecca Rybaltowski, Outreach Assistant hosted an informational session at Mary Queen of Heaven parish to educate people about the immigration process.
Tuesday October 15, 2013 On October 4th and October 11th over 850 attendees representing different immigrant communities in the Brooklyn and the Queens dioceses gathered to celebrate this year’s Shining Star Award recipients. In total 30 leaders who have made
Monday October 7, 2013 On Saturday October 5th CMS marched across the Brooklyn Bridge for humane and dignified immigration reform alongside hundreds of people on what organizers called a “National Day of Immigrant Dignity and Respect.” Nationwide thousands of supports
Thursday October 3, 2013 CMS and the Queens Housing Collation were featured in a video which outlines how the plans for the redevelopment of Willets Point excludes a legal guarantee for affordable housing and for the group relocation of the
Monday September 30, 2013 On Wednesday evening on September 26th the Queens Housing Coalition and Catholic Migration Services gathered with community members for the first meeting of the fall at St. Sebastian Parish. The gathering set a much energized tone for
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Catholic Migration services is pleased to partner with The New Americans Campaign. This is a multi-state campaign to help legally qualified aspiring citizens navigate the path to becoming new Americans. Their major points of success are
At a recent event to kick-off Labor Rights Week hosted by the Mexican Consulate in New York, CMS Staff Attorney Alice Davis spoke about the success of our work on behalf immigrant laborers who suffer workplace abuses. In 2009, CMS