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Law and Legal Research

This guide highlights resources for finding answers to basic legal questions.

Citizenship and Immigration

Project Citizenship provides free, high quality legal services to permanent residents to help them become U.S citizens.  Project Citizenship offers free workshops, eligibility screening, application assistance, legal referrals and all materials needed to apply for U.S. citizenship. info@projectcitizenship.org or 617.694.5949

RIAN Center (formerly called the Irish International Immigrant Center): Expert legal staff and pro bono attorneys offer free legal consultations at weekly legal clinics to immigrants, refugees, and asylees, and provide full case representation before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) IIC also assists eligible immigrants in becoming U.S. citizens, guiding them throughout the application process and representing those with complex cases. Through special projects,IIC works with people who are most at-risk: survivors of domestic violence, homeless women in partnership with Rosie’s Place, and children who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Legal representation is offered at extremely low cost or for free.