Immigration & Citizenship

The Immigration and Citizenship Program aims to help immigrant community members achieve greater stability by offering two main services: high quality, affordable, and comprehensive legal services, and citizenship classes to assist them in studying for and passing the English and Civics tests required to become a U.S. citizen.

For immigration legal services, we offer comprehensive immigration evaluations, and upon case acceptance, full legal representation to apply for certain forms of immigration relief including citizenship, Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA), family-based immigration, removal of conditions of residence, and humanitarian forms of relief such as VAWA, U Visa, T Visa, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

The Indo-American Center does not offer the following services:

Visa Application Assistance for Foreign Countries (ex: India (OCI), Pakistan). Instead, contact your country’s embassy/consulate or a local travel agency.
U.S. Passport (Application, Renewal). Instead, call the US Department of State (1-877-487-2778) or visit their website:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html
Review of completed immigration forms without legal representation
Document translation
Printed immigration forms. You may visit?https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms?to access and print USCIS forms for free.
Business Immigration (Employer I-140, change/extend nonimmigrant visa)

.Funded by the New Americans Initiative through Illinois Dept. of Human Services and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, New Americans Campaign, Access to Justice through The Resurrection Project, the City of Chicago Legal Protection Fund, the Lawyers Trust Fund, the Illinois Immigrant Funder Collaborative, and others.

For more information,
please contact:
immigration@indoamerican.org (773) 973-4444 x 103

Citizenship Classes

IAC offers free citizenship classes, in person as well as virtually, on Mondays and Wednesdays. Check the poster below for details. Students in IAC’s Citizenship Classes have a high naturalization interview pass rate. This course runs over 12 weeks to prepare the students to answer the 100 prescribed Civics questions as well as questions from the N400 form. Mock interviews and targeted English Language skills are incorporated into the curriculum, to build student confidence and speaking skills.

One-on-one tutoring

For those who have an upcoming naturalization interview date you may opt for free Fastrack one on one Tutoring to help you get ready for the interview based on your individual needs. For other study support options, send an email to citizenship@indoamerican.org.

Upcoming citizenship class registrations

Walk in Registrations will be open in start of October for the Fall Batch at IAC for the new Batch of Citizenship classes . To get put on the waitlist or receive updates for registrations send us an email to citizenship@indoamerican.org or call (773) 973-4444 (ext 133) .You must leave full name, your email and telephone number and if you have a scheduled interview date coming up.

Citizenship guide books

Available in ENGLISH ONLY for a $10 donation at our front desk, including the 100 civics questions, practice exercises, reading and writing vocabulary.