Affirmative Immigration Legal Services Program

With more than 20 years of experience, the Affirmative Immigration Legal Services Program (AS Program) at Jewish Family Service of San Diego provides quality, free legal services to lower-income individuals living in the San Diego area seeking to obtain certain types of immigration benefits for themselves or their family members living in the United States.
**See exceptions below in bold.

We offer multilingual legal services to the San Diego area immigrant community with an emphasis on helping those most vulnerable. The AS Program has provided legal services to thousands of immigrants in the Southern California region.

The AS Program services include but are not limited to:

• General immigration consultations (ask us anything related to immigration)
• DACA applications
• Family-based immigration applications and petitions
• Naturalization
• Applications for asylum and other asylee/refugee-related applications and petitions
• Victim-based relief through VAWA, T visa, U visa, and Special Immigrant Juvenile petitions
• Adjustment of status applications (“green card” applications)

**To qualify for services your household income must be at or below 250% of the poverty guidelines. Unfortunately, the AS Program does not provide services for:

• Immigration court representation
  • If you have an open immigration court case or you are seeking help for someone in immigration custody, DO NOT schedule an appointment on this page. Instead, please call the Immigration Department at Jewish Family Service of San Diego at (858) 637-3365. If no one answers, please leave a detailed message and someone will return your call promptly.
• Business, student, or tourist visa matters
• Family members seeking to petition for other family members who are outside of the United States

**If you are a student, faculty member, or staff member or a relative of a student, faculty member, or staff member of any of the following campuses, please schedule an appointment here.

If you want to know more before scheduling an appointment, please read our What to Expect at your First Appointment document.

Take the Next Step

Please do not use this link to schedule if you or a relative are detained by ICE or already have a case pending with the immigration court. Instead, call the number below for assistance.

Para asistencia en español llame al (858) 637-3365.

For general information about AS Program, call (858) 637-3365.