Provides free 1-hour appointment with a volunteer immigration attorney for advice on immigration legal issues. Serves low-income residents of East, Northeast and Southeast King County.
Provides an immigration clinic where clients receive a free 1-hour appointment with a volunteer immigration attorney for advice and consultation on immigration legal issues, including citizenship. ELAP does not handle asylum or removal cases.
Clinic is available regardless of immigration status.
Attorneys at the clinic do not provide representation or accompany clients to court.
Attorneys work with interpreters to give consultation and legal advice on family law, immigration law, landlord-tenant disputes, employment law and other areas. Call for an appointment. Focuses on serving limited English-speaking Koreans.
Operates legal clinics providing free 30 minute consultations with an attorney.
Focus is on Korean and Korean-speaking clients.
Clinic attorneys can:
- Determine whether the client has a legal problem
- Suggest possible options
- Help answer papers, summons and requests
- Provide appropriate referrals
Neighborhood legal clinic attorneys may not have expertise in all areas of the law, but they will make every attempt to answer questions accurately.
Attorneys CANNOT give advice on criminal legal issues or provide representation on any legal matters.
Assists with applications for Basic Food debit cards, determines if benefits are appropriate and reviews information sent by DSHS.
Offers support in applying for the state's Basic Food program. Determines if the Basic Food benefits are appropriate. Helps complete applications for benefits to receive immediate food assistance and reviews information sent from DSHS. Helps applicants gather the required documentation. Cannot determine final eligibility.
Offer non-detained individuals who are facing removal proceedings through the Seattle Immigration Court information and referrals to resources that can help them navigate a complex legal system.
Offer non-detained individuals who are facing removal proceedings through the Seattle Immigration Court information and referrals to resources that can help them navigate a complex legal system.
Assists with the application for Basic Food benefits, determines if benefits are appropriate and reviews information sent by DSHS.
Offers support in applying for the state's Basic Food program.
Determines if the Basic Food benefits are appropriate, helps complete applications for benefits to receive immediate food assistance and reviews information sent from DSHS.
Helps applicants gather the required documentation.
ReWA case managers cannot determine final eligibility; it's up to DSHS staff to determine client eligibility for the program.
Provides free 30-minute legal consultations on immigration issues for individuals who are not already represented by an attorney.
Operates legal clinics providing free 30 minute consultations with an immigration attorney.
Legal Clinic is jointly coordinated by King County Bar Association and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Clinic attorneys can:
- Determine whether the client has a legal problem
- Suggest possible options
- Help answer papers, summons and requests
- Provide appropriate referrals
Neighborhood legal clinic attorneys have expertise in immigration law.
Attorneys CANNOT give advice on criminal legal issues or provide representation on any legal matters.
Provides legal services to recipients and applicants for TANF, HEN, ABD, Basic Food, WA Apple Health (Medicaid) and childcare from King County; advocates with DSHS and represents in hearings. Call 2-1-1 for screening.
Provides free legal advice and direct representation for public benefits cases with DSHS where benefits have been denied, reduced, overpaid or terminated.
These cases include:
- Basic Food/food stamps
- TANF
- ABD (formerly GAU/GAX/Disability Lifeline programs)
- Housing and Essential Needs (HEN) Referral
- WA Apple Health (Medicaid)
- Medical assistance (including issues with prescription drugs, durable medical equipment, managed care programs, specific medical treatment/services)
- Childcare
- Emergency financial aid (including AREN, DCA and Refugee Cash Assistance)
- Alien Emergency Medical Program
- State long-term care cases (can only assist with issues of financial eligibility)
- Medicare Savings Program
Hosts a free monthly legal clinic with a focus on LGBTQ issues; provides information in a variety of areas including family law, debt and bankruptcy, divorce/dissolution, employment discrimination, and transgender legal issues.
Hosts a legal clinic specifically designed to address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and couples. This clinic is run by QLaw Foundation in partnership with the King County Bar Association.
The clinic is open to everyone regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
At the clinic, an attorney will meet with clients for 30 minutes and provide individualized legal advice and information.
Clinic attorneys will answer questions and provide information in a variety of areas including family law, immigration, debt and bankruptcy, divorce/dissolution, employment discrimination, and transgender legal issues.
Maintains a web page featuring materials regarding immigration, legal information, and eligibility for benefits, as well as legal resources and community supports.
Maintains a web page featuring materials regarding immigration, legal information, and eligibility for benefits, as well as legal resources and community supports.
Case managers provide assistance in accessing basic and emergency resources, naturalization assistance, individual ESL instruction, public benefits application procedures, health insurance programs and health advocacy.
Case managers provide assistance in accessing basic and emergency resources, naturalization assistance, individual ESL instruction, public benefits application procedures.
Provides Obama Healthcare and WA Apple Health ( Medicaid) health advocacy.
Assists clients in applying for unemployment benefits and SNAP/EBT.
Intensive case management services assist immigrants and refugees in overcoming barriers to self-sufficiency that are caused by difficulty in accessing and appropriately utilizing the health and human service systems.
Home visits are available.
Assists with the application for Basic Food benefits, determines if benefits are appropriate and reviews information sent by DSHS.
Offers support in applying for the state's Basic Food program.
Determines if the Basic Food benefits are appropriate, helps complete applications for benefits to receive immediate food assistance and reviews information sent from DSHS.
Helps applicants gather the required documentation.
ReWA case managers cannot determine final eligibility; it's up to DSHS staff to determine client eligibility for the program.
Loren Miller Bar Association Legal Clinic offered by King County Bar Association Neighborhood Legal Clinics at Loren Miller Bar Association (telephonic)
Operates a legal clinic where a free 30-minute legal consultation is available for individuals with cases in King County who are not already represented by an attorney. Focus is on serving African American clients but clinic is open to all.
Operates a legal clinic providing a free 30-minute consultation with an attorney (60 minutes if an interpreter or other accommodation is needed)
Clinic is open to all, but particular focus is on providing culturally-informed legal services in a safe and welcoming environment to individuals who identify as African American or Black. This clinic is staffed primarily by attorneys of color.
Clinic attorneys can:
- Determine whether the client has a legal problem
- Suggest possible options
- Help answer papers, summons and requests
- Provide appropriate referrals
Neighborhood Legal Clinic attorneys may not have expertise in all areas of the law, but they will make every attempt to answer questions accurately.
Attorneys CANNOT give advice on criminal legal issues or provide representation on any legal matters.