Know your rights. Get help.
CVIIC helps immigrant families across the Central Valley understand their rights and reach free, trustworthy legal help. Our staff bring community education to schools and neighborhoods, and with partner agencies and pro bono attorneys we organize free immigration legal services workshops close to home.
Information families can trust, where they already are.
Every year, CVIIC staff give hundreds of community presentations at schools, churches, community centers and partner organizations across the Valley. Presentations are in Spanish and English, free, and focused on what families need to know to protect themselves and plan ahead.
Know your rights
What to do and say during encounters with immigration enforcement, at home, at work and in public.
Citizenship
Who is eligible to naturalize, the requirements and how the process works.
DACA and other relief
DACA, U and T visas, VAWA, asylum and other options, and how to find out if you may qualify.
Avoiding notario fraud
How to spot scams and false “notarios,” and why only attorneys and accredited representatives should give legal advice.
Trusted nonprofit help
The free and low-cost services offered by trusted nonprofit immigration legal services agencies in the region, and how to reach them.
Request a presentation
Tell us about your group, location, preferred language and date. CVIIC staff will follow up to schedule.
Free legal help, close to home.
Since 2014, CVIIC and its partners have organized more than 1,000 free immigration legal services workshops in rural and urban communities. Nonprofit legal services providers and pro bono attorneys review documents, screen for eligibility and help complete applications on site.
- Naturalization (citizenship)
- DACA
- U and T visas
- VAWA
- Asylum screening
One day, more than 20 partner agencies.
CVIIC and more than 20 partner agencies organized a free, large-scale immigration legal services workshop at Fresno Adult School. Volunteers registered families at the door, attorneys, accredited representatives and law students met with them one on one, and partner organizations staffed resource tables.
New citizens, and new voices in the Valley.
CVIIC naturalization clients celebrate becoming U.S. citizens. Citizenship brings the right to vote, to travel freely and to sponsor family members, and it starts with free, trustworthy help with the application. In the grid above, bottom left, a new citizen with CVIIC staff member Norma Trinidad-Diaz.
Central Valley Immigration Legal Services Directory
Nonprofit immigration legal services providers across the eight San Joaquin Valley counties, always published in English and Spanish. Current edition: September 2025. An updated edition is coming soon.
People families already know and trust.
CVIIC’s immigration team gives community presentations across the Valley, organizes free legal services workshops with partner agencies and pro bono attorneys, and connects families with trusted nonprofit legal help.
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This work is possible because nonprofit legal services providers, pro bono attorneys and law firms, schools, libraries, churches, media and public agencies work together as one regional network.