UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES AND EDUCATION, INC.

UURISE offers one-on-one legal services to assist with DACA renewals and Advance Parole. Additionally, we assess an individual's eligibility for other types of immigration relief.

Victims of domestic violence, human trafficking or other crimes may be eligible for immigration relief under specialized programs and visas.

UURISE has specially trained, compassionate staff who will meet with you one on one to assess your eligibility for immigration protection and relief.

No-cost services are provided at One Safe Place - The North County Family Justice Center in San Marcos.

UURISE provides low-cost and no-cost immigration legal services to help clients access the protections and benefits available under current immigration laws.

UURISE professional legal staff provides one-on-one counseling and representation that always starts with a comprehensive consultation to assess current immigration status and potential immigration relief. In the community, UURISE hosts group workshops to provide no-cost assistance for naturalization and DACA renewals.

Our services include:
- Consultations
- DACA Renewals
- Work Permit Renewals & Replacements
- Advance Parole
- Naturalization & Citizenship
- Green Card Renewals & Replacements
- FOIAs (obtaining government records)
- Services for Victims of Domestic Violence & Other Crimes: VAWA, U-Visa, T-Visa
- Family Petitions
- Adjustment of Status
- Removal of Conditions of Conditional Green Card
- Consular Processing
- Waivers
- Parole in Place
- TPS

UURISE provides no-cost CARE (Connections, Advocacy, Resource Navigation, and Emergency Safety Planning for Immigrants) services to individuals and families.

CARE services start with a simple screening that helps identify and assess current needs related to food security, housing, safety, and health. Using this screening as a guide, UURISE provides:

- Connections to organizations, providers, or programs that can help clients meet needs and reach goals.
- Advocacy with and on behalf of clients to a third party in support of immigration needs.
- Resource Navigation to help clients access services and resources that won’t have a negative impact on their immigration goals or status.
- Emergency Safety Planning for Immigrants (ESPI) which includes an assessment, tools, and a plan to help individuals and families avoid catastrophic loss in the event of detention or deportation.

UURISE responds to the needs of a wide variety of communities and partners by providing services designed to support and further justice for immigrants. Our education services include:

For immigrant communities, UURISE provides education services on a variety of issues related to immigration and human rights. Free information forums help immigrants better understand their rights, the pathways to legal status, and the possible protections available to those without a pathway.

For community partners, UURISE provides no-cost and low-cost trainings, workshops, and presentations on topics including current immigration laws, policies, and enforcement, and how to best support immigrant and mixed-status clients and constituents.

UURISE helps congregations & small group ministries deepen and broaden their work on immigrant justice through education, discernment, and technical assistance (TA). We help them develop or deepen an anti-racist/anti-oppressive perspective. This work facilitates moving from a savior mindset and toward a collective liberation framework, and helps congregations cultivate humility, embrace listening to and trusting impacted communities, and move toward partnering with the people in their communities already doing the work.

Our Faithful Justice model is intended to create radically welcoming, resilient, relational spaces that serve our congregations and their wider communities far beyond the immigration work that might be their initial goal.

Opportunities include:
- Sanctuary & immigrant accompaniment
- Developing accountable community partnerships
- Developing anti-racist/anti-oppression based immigrant justice programs
- Justice Portals / Ventanillas de Justicia
- Worship Resources

Justice Portals / Ventanillas de Justicia are collaborations between UURISE and congregations that leverage technology, resources, and community relationships to bring remote immigration services to congregations in underserved areas.

A Justice Portal/Ventanilla de Justicia is co-provided by a congregation and UURISE and connects people with less access to low and no-cost immigration services to trusted immigration service providers. UURISE provides the legal services to clients as well as training and technical support to the congregations to help them become more integrated partners in their community.