Our Programs
As Maine’s only state-wide immigration legal services organization, ILAP advance justice and equity for immigrants and their families through direct legal services, community legal education, and systemic advocacy. We directly engage more than 3,000 people each year and reach many more through our advocacy efforts. We operate full-time offices in Portland and Lewiston and a have regular presence across the state through our “Rural Maine Project.”
With ILAP, people with low incomes can get the immigration legal help they need to find safety from violence and persecution, keep their families together, and advance towards economic security. Whether through an in-depth one-time consultation or full legal representation in complex multi-year cases, ILAP ensures that immigrant community members receive expert legal guidance and fair treatment under the law. And where laws and policies are unjust, ILAP works to change them.
Program Areas
Direct Legal Services
ILAP provides a full range of direct legal services, from full representation to consultations to forms assistance, covering a range of humanitarian and family-based immigration issues.
Education & Outreach
ILAP offers accurate, accessible, and timely information and materials on legal issues to immigrant communities and service providers from York to Aroostook counties.
Systemic Advocacy
ILAP collaborates with immigrant-led groups and partners organizations on advocacy at the local, state and federal levels to safeguard and promote laws and policies that affect Maine’s immigrant communities.
Program IMPACT
Through our Direct Legal Services, Education & Outreach, and Systemic Advocacy, ILAP helps Maine’s immigrant communities navigate the complex and increasingly unjust immigration system we have now while working with our community to re-imagine a better immigration system for generations to come.
Learn how ILAP’s work impacts the Maine community by exploring our Program Highlights and hearing directly from ILAP clients, volunteers, and Board members: