Catholic Migration Services (“CMS”) is currently accepting 2022 summer legal internship applications for our Tenant Advocacy, Immigration, and Workers Rights’ Programs. CMS is a nonprofit provider of legal services primarily serving low-income residents of Brooklyn and Queens and is an
On April 25, 2022, the Uniting for Ukraine program started. It is a streamlined process for displaced Ukrainian citizens and their immediate relatives to apply for humanitarian parole. Learn how this impacts displaced Ukrainian citizens.
On Feb. 27, the New York City Council’s Committee on Immigration held a hearing on domestic labor trafficking.
Established in 1971 by the Most Reverend Francis J. Mugavero, the Catholic Migration Office was born in response to the 1969 Papal Instruction Pastoralis Migratorum Cura, written by His Holiness Pope Paul VI on the Pastoral Care of People who Migrate.
CMS held our first Queens Tenant Monthly Meeting of fall 2014 on Wednesday September 24.Over 80 community members attended the meeting at St. Sebastian Parish Center. We were joined by council member Julissa Ferreras of the 21st district in Queens.
Elected officials and community supporters rallied outside of Tom Cat Bakery, the city’s oldest artisanal bakery to protest and stand in solidarity with immigrant workers threatened by mass firings after a Department of Homeland Security investigation.
Sunday, October 6, 2012 Queen of All Saints Church in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, Brooklyn hosted its annual Health and Wellness Fair. Catholic Migration Services, along with Fidelis Care, the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, and other organizations were represented at
On Saturday, June 22nd Catholic Migration Services, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and legal partners offered free one-on-one guidance on naturalization applications at LaGuardia Community College.
Catholic Migration Services’ Immigrant Tenant Advocacy Program will be hosting a Queens Town Hall on the right to counsel in Housing Court.